London: Robert Triphook and Thomas Rodd, 1822. First Edition Thus. First Thomas Taylor translation. Octavo, xxiv, 400 pages, rebound in red buckram with gilt-lettered spine label and new endpapers. This copy is without the final “Passages Suppressed” leaves, if called for. Thomas Taylor’s 1822 translation of The Metamorphosis; or, Golden.....
Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1979. First Edition. Octavo, xi, 102 pages, plus 19 black-and-white plates. Publisher's original gilt-lettered blue cloth. Enmerkar and Ensuhkesdanna: A Sumerian Narrative Poem is a scholarly study and edition of an important work of ancient Mesopotamian literature, in which Adele Berlin examines a Sumerian narrative centered.....
New York: The American Folk-Lore Society, 1932. First Edition. Octavo, xiii, 178 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered red cloth covered boards. Bella Bella Tales, edited by Franz Boas and issued as Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, Vol. 25, is an important 1932 contribution to Native American folklore, anthropology, and Northwest.....
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1896. Third Edition Revised. Octavo, 361 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered red cloth covered boards. Top edge gilt. An important late 19th-century work of Native American mythology, comparative religion, anthropology, and American ethnology. This 1896 third revised edition, published in Philadelphia by David McKay, presents Brinton’s wide-ranging study.....
New York: The American Folk-Lore Society, 1917. First Edition. Octavo, xii, 205 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered red cloth covered boards. Top edge gilt. Folk-Tales of Salishan and Sahaptin Tribes, collected by James Alexander Teit, Livingston Farrand, Marian K. Gould, and Herbert Joseph Spinden and edited by Franz Boas, issued as.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. With Ninety-Six Plates Reproduced in Fac-Simile from the Turin Papyrus and the Louvre Papyrus. First Edition. Square folio, 186 pages followed by LXXIX full page plates, some of which are fold outs. Publisher's original gilt-lettered green cloth covered boards. The Egyptian Book of.....
London: George Redway, 1887. First English Edition. Octavo, xxiv, 360, 39, [1] pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered blue cloth covered boards. Uncommon first English edition of Adolphe d’Assier’s Posthumous Humanity: A Study of Phantoms, a substantial Victorian investigation of apparitions, ghosts, phantoms, post-mortem survival, and the persistence of the human entity.....
London: The Poetry Lovers' Fellowship, 1932. First Edition. Octavo, xxiv, 440, [1] pages, publisher's original pictorial yellow dust jacket. Publisher's original gilt-lettered blue cloth covered boards. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white. With the bookplate of the Guild of Saint John of Beverley for the Deaf, Deaf-Blind, and Hard of Hearing to.....
Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. First Edition. Octavo, xiii, 310 pages, publisher's original color pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's original red cloth-covered boards. Illustrated in black-and-white. The Folklore of Spain in the American Southwest: Traditional Spanish Folk Literature in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado by Aurelio M. Espinosa.....
London: Keegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1902. First Edition. Octavo, 82 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered and decorated green cloth covered boards. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. Queen Moo’s Talisman: The Fall of the Maya Empire by Alice D. Le Plongeon is an unusual early 20th-century work blending.....
London: Printed by John Rivington, jun. For W. Strahan, T. Lownes, T. Becker, and E. Johnston, 1778. 12mo, xxiii, 291, [18] pages, period full leather. Illustrated with 12 of 13 black-and-white engravings. Alain-René Le Sage’s The Devil upon Two Sticks, newly translated from Le Diable Boiteux, is a classic work.....
Boston & London: The Medici Society, 1920. Early reprint of the W. Russell Flint illustrated Medici Society edition, circa 1920. Two volumes in one. Octavo, xliv, 432, 531 pages, publisher's original dust jacket with color pictorial paste down. Publisher's original gilt-lettered red cloth covered boards. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with.....
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. First Edition. 12mo, [2], viii, 382 pages, publisher's original cloth covered boards. Illustrated with frontispiece and two fold-out plates. Horatio Smith’s Festivals, Games, and Amusements, Ancient and Modern is an engaging early nineteenth-century survey of popular entertainments, public customs, sports, games, holidays, ceremonies.....
Redmond, WA: San Francisco Graphic Society, 1992. First Edition. Folio, 272 pages, publisher's original color pictorial dust jacket with the original price of $75 unclipped. Publisher's original gilt-lettered and decorated black cloth covered boards. Color pictorial endpapers and profusely illustrated throughout in full color. Yoshitoshi’s One Hundred Aspects of the.....
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London: Cope and Fenwick, 1909. First English Edition, translated from the eighth German edition. Tall octavo, 289 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered red cloth covered boards. Hermann L. Strack’s The Jew and Human Sacrifice: [Human Blood and Jewish Ritual] An Historical and Sociological Inquiry is an important scholarly examination of the.....