Search Results: Folklore and Mythology from The Owl at the Bridge

Paul Hamlyn, London [1973].. Hard Cover. 141 p., illus., 29 cm. Illustrated with over 100 b/w, 24 color wood carvings and masks. Stock# 33,426. Good+, a few captions highlighted in yellow, dj good, chipped

London, Octopus, 1974. Hard Cover. 72 p.,100 col. illus., 29 cm. The color illustrations are from statues, paintings, mosaics, illuminated manuscripts mostly medieval and Renaissance ideas of the past. Introduction by Stewrt Perowne. Stock# 34,452. Vg/ dj vg.

Illustrated by Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, Maxfield Parrish, and Early Historical Woodcuts. With Chapter Decorations by E. M. Simon. 350 pages, illus., bibliography, index; 28 cm. Bound in tan cloth; no dust jacket; edges & corners bumped, spine sunned; internally clean; Good. Stock#ofc0559.

Hard Cover. xx, 605 pages; 26 cm. Bibliography of Italian folklore; 6680 entries. Reprint of the 1894 edition; Burt Franklin Bibliography & Reference Series 453. New. Stock#34963/h.

Book Club edition. "The tale begins with an aged and weary King Arthur sitting alone in his tent at Salisbury, awaiting his last battle. His childhood mentor Merlyn enters to give Arthur one last lesson in life, and the king is whisked away to the badger's sett to meet again with the Animal Council, to which Merlyn had introduced him as a boy." Written in 1940/41, in a nation threatened by German Nazis, but because of war shortages not published until 1977. Hardcover. xxi, 137 pages; 24 cm. Pictorial dj worn, bottom front edge stained; good+. Stock#23307/h.

NY, Continuum, 1994. Hard Cover. 345 p., [16] p. of plates, 800 illus. (16 color); 25 cm. "Becker, an international authority on symbols and semiotics, has compiled a collection of symbols useful in giving meaning to everyday life. Originally published in German as Lexikon der Symbole in 1992, this collection of 1500 entries …" ISBN (10): 0826406440. Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#47474.

NY, Random House, ©1968. Hard Cover. 303 p., illus. (45 color), maps; 26 cm. Shows how the merging of cultures of Minoan Crete with that of the Mycenaean on the Greek mainland created classical Greek civilization. Stock#L394. Very Good in VG dust jacket.

Paris, Flammarion, Coll. 'Symboles' [1958]. Soft Cover. 123 pages, plates; 18.5 cm. Good+, partially unopened/ paper. Stock#32696x.

NY, Philosophical Library [1962].. Hard Cover. liv, 400 p., index, illus., plates; 21 cm. Translated by Jack Sage from Diccionario de símbolos tradicionales. Foreword by Herbert Read. Stock# 32,697. Vg/ dj good. Occult; reference.

New York : Bell Pub. Co., c1978.. Hard Cover. 224 p., index, illus.; 23.5 cm. Myths served "to ward off disasters which might occur, and to account for those that did." Stock# 37,120. Vg/ no dj.

"Read the actual letters of Bjorn of Bromme, a Viking who scrawled his notes on a piece of hide while pillaging Europe in the 9th century; the delicate calligraphy of Soong Mei Ying, who wrote to her father as she traveled the Silk Road in the 13th century; and, finally, the correspondence of Prussian cartographer Dr. E. F. Liebermann, who wrote to his fiancée on the world's first typewriter from the depths of the African jungle. Their entertaining escapades and gripping encounters with dastardly dragons will astound and amuse readers of all ages." Hardcover. 32 pages, color illustrations throughout; 35 cm. Color pictorial dj; fine, gift quality. stock#813/h.

[Port-au-Prince] Bon Nouvel [1975]. Soft Cover. 71 p., illus.; 22 cm. 300 proverbs from Haiti. In Haitian. From the library of Raphael G. Urciolo. Stock#47189. Vg / soft covers.

Biblioteca de la Cultura Andaluza [1966]. Folclore 50. Soft Cover. 248 p.; 18.5 cm. In Spanish. Contents incl. Antonio Machado y Alvarez, la voz de un pueblo sin voz (Antonio Zoido); Dos biografí­as-testimonios de Antonio Machado y Alvarez (Antonio Sendras y Burin & D. Joaquín Sama); Trabajos para la Constitución y puesta en funcionamiento de la Sociedad Folk-Lore andaluz y el Folk-Lore español; Acta de Constitución de la Sociedad Folk-Lore andaluz; Trabajos de topografía y toponimía; Dictados típicos; Los pregones; Juegos infantiles (La niña de los ojos negros; Las hijas del Rey moro; Je vous vends mon allumette); El número 3; Oraciones populares y Buenaventura; Piropos; Otras formas de expresión popular (Dichos populares; Frases hechas; Cuentos; Ocurrencias); Romances y coplas; Cartas entre Luis Montoto y Demófilo. "Diseño de cubierta: Antonio Ramón." Paper; no markings or wear; VG+. stock#45760.

London : Michael O'Mara, 1997. Soft Cover. 182p, [12]p of plates, illus., index, 24 cm. Fairy lore in Great Britain and Ireland. Bibliography: p163-164. Stock# 40,880. Vg/ paper.

Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1966.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed. xxiii, 256 p. 22 cm. Title continues: Selected and edited by Tristram P. Coffin and Hennig Cohen from the Journal of American Folklore. Includes 17 folk-songs and tunes. Inscribed to friend by Coffin. Dust-jacket typography & illustration by Edward Gorey.  Stock#102197. Vg/ dj good+, some wear.

Two catalogs on folklore and related subjects, no. 243 "including a collection on Witchcraft and Demonology". 500 & 280 items listed; stapled in pictorial wraps; Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0256.

London, Hamlyn, 1973.. Hard Cover. [5] - 141 p. : 100+ b/w illus. (24 p. col.) ; 28.5 cm. The stories of the myths are illustrated with Greek works of art--vase painting, sculpture, architectural detail. Stock# 44,096. Vg / dj vg.

Hammondsworth, Penguin, 1987. Soft Cover. xvii, 353 p., illus., 23.5 cm. "125 marvellous Irish tales, told in the gewat Irish tradition. Bibliography: p. 327-353. Stock# 37,955. Vg/ paper.

Snaebjörn Jönsson & Co., Reykjavik [1967?]. Two small handlists. The larger list includes Icelandic Sagas and Classics (various saga series; Early Icelandic Manuscripts in Facsimile; Corpus Codicum Islandicorum Medii Aevi; Rámnafélagid; Nordisk Filologi; Bibliotheca Arnamagníana); Folklore, Mythology; Icelandic Literature; Icelandic Language; Geology, Geography, Natural History; Art; History, Politics, Economics; Viking Stories; Translations of Foreign Works; Maps of Iceland; the smaller list offers much the same categories. Soft Cover. 48 & 20 pages, 15 cm.; stapled in printed wraps; VG. Stock#36259.

Paris, Plon [1923]. Soft Cover. 264 p.; 19 cm. 'Les Romans de la Table Ronde Nouvellement Rédigés par Jacques Boulenger.' The third volume (of four) of Boulenger's edition of the Arthurian legends. Printed wraps, as issued; worming at top & bottom edges (margins only); unopened; good. stock#32556.