Culture, Customs, Folklore from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

London: J.R. Smith, 1849. First edition, this copy with presentation in ink at the ffep: "R. Higginson, Esq / With the author's / kind regards." Octavo (8.25" x 5"), xiv, [1, "Addenda et Corrigenda"] & 151 pages plus 12 pages of publisher's advertisements. With frontis map depicting "Part of Teesdale in Durham. Showing the District to which the Teesdale Glossary… Read more about this item

London: John Russell Smith, 1851. First edition. Sextodecimo (6.5" x 4.5"), xvi & [1] - 200 pages. Errata slip tipped to p. xvi. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & decorated in blind. Binding moderately soiled, small stain on the lower cover, brief wear at spine extremities & corners, short annotation in old ink at the ffep, otherwise… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), 287 pages. Publisher's light green cloth lettered in orange on the spine & upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket. Margins slightly sunned, bottom corners lightly bruised, two leaves roughly opened causing a small loss & short tear in the bottom margin (text unaffected), a very good or better copy in moderately… Read more about this item

New York: A.A. Wyn, 1948. First American edition but printed in Great Britain with price in pounds sterling. Duodecimo (7.5" x 5.25"), xi & 159 pages, the title page printed in red & black. Publisher's yellow cloth lettered in brown on the spine, in pictorial dus jacket. Slight shelf wear, otherwise near fine in soiled dust jacket, browned at the spine,… Read more about this item

Hamburg, Germany: Carlsen Verlag, printed in Prague, Czechoslovakia by Artia, (1960). Oblong quarto (8.25" x 10.5"), publisher's pictorial boards backed in decorated white cloth-patterned paper signed in print by Vojtech Kubasta. The front cover features a dropdown depicting the unset table when closed & revealing the set table when opened, with text in German & 8 pop ups within (as… Read more about this item

Prague, Czechoslovakia: Artia, (1958). Oblong quarto (8.25" x 10.5"), publisher's pictorial boards backed in light gray cloth-patterned paper initialed in print on the front cover by Vojtech Kubasta & signed in print at the colophon. The front cover features an oval cutout showing Snow White which revolves to reveal the seven dwarfs, with text in Dutch & 8 pop ups… Read more about this item

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1930. First edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), 473 & [1] pages, illustrated, the frontispiece by Keith Mackaye & linoleum cuts by Ina Annett. Publisher's gilt-lettered light brown cloth, with a pictorial device depicting a team of horses & a man plowing a field. Margins sunned, base of the spine with shallow loss, corners bumped, internal… Read more about this item

London: William Pickering, 1848. First edition, this copy with signed presentation by Evans in ink at the front pastedown to the Library of the [Royal] Archaeological Institute. 16mo, xvii & 116 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt & decorated in blind. All edges gilt. Ex-library with the small rubber-stamped mark of the Royal Archaeological Institute in the margins of several… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1905. First edition. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 29. Octavo (9.5" x 6"), 448 pages. Publisher's gilt lettered & decorated olive cloth. Modest wear at spine extremities, corners, & edges, gilt dull, binding moderately soiled, front hinge started (still secure), internally toned, otherwise good or better. The language of the Haida was suppressed at Native… Read more about this item

Tokyo: T Hasegawa, Publisher & Art-Printer, [ca 1902]. 12mo, [24] pages (including covers) printed in color on crepe paper on 12 folded sheets, stabbed & tied with silk thread, illustrated throughout. Blanck/ BAL 7937C. Margins lightly sunned, briefly soiled, modest edge wear, otherwise very good The publisher's address as given in the colophon in Japanese (p. [23]) is 17 Kami Negishi… Read more about this item

[Tokyo]: Published by the Government of Japan with the cooperation of the Mainchi Newspapers, (1964). First edition. Complete in three small folio volumes: 224; 215, [1]; & 220 pp, profusely illustrated mostly from photographs (many in color). Publisher's yellow, red, or light blue cloth lettered in black on the spines, housed in a black cloth slipcase with printed paper label… Read more about this item

Penzance: F Rodda, Printer & Publisher, 1895. First edition. 8vo, xii, 139 pp, frontis portrait of the author. Publisher's gilt lettered blue cloth. Lightly rubbed, brief offsetting at pastedowns & endpapers, minor foxing, binding started in a couple of places (still secure), last two leaves of text roughly opened causing small losses not affecting text, otherwise Very Good. Presents a… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1940. First edition. 4to, 70 & [2] pp, including charming illustrations in color & black & white throughout. Publisher's salmon cloth lettered in brown on the spine, with an applied paper illustration in color on the upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket. Gift inscription & date in ink in a childish hand at the ffep,… Read more about this item

New York: Book Collectors Society, by arrangement with Thames & Hudson, no date (ca. 1953). Limited to 250 copies, this unnumbered & out of series. 8vo, x & 350 pp, indexed, Illustrated by numerous photogravure plates & line drawings. Publisher's full pebbled brown morocco lettered in gilt on spine, with pink satin marker sewn in. Lightly rubbed, brief wear at corners,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A Hart, 1837. First American edition. Complete in two octavo volumes, [9], 10 - 199; [9], 10 - 186 pp. Contemporary paper over boards backed in plum muslin with printed paper spine labels. Bindings soiled & rubbed, spines & labels browned, lettering on labels obscure, shallow losses at spine extremities, joints splitting on volume two, previous… Read more about this item