Search Results: Mythology from The Owl at the Bridge

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

London, Dent / NY, Dutton [May 1923]. Everyman's Library 46. Hard Cover. 411 p., glossary, 17.5 cm. Begins with Book X, Chapter XX, How it was told Sir Launcelot that Dagonet chased King Mark, and how a knight overthrew him and six knights. Maroon cloth stamped in gold, top edge gilt; printed grey dj has minor wear; VG+. stock#31982.

Bloomington, Indiana UP [1962].. Soft Cover. xiv, 401 p., index; 20 cm. The Roman myths told in poetical form."Ovid is, after Homer, the single most important source for classical mythology." Stock# 33,304x. Vg/ paper. Another copy, also vg, but a very few ink underlinings. Classical Roman literature.

Boston, Beacon Press, [1968]. Soft Cover. 375 p. 20.5 cm. First published New York, G. Braziller, 1960. An anthology of 17 essays plus an appendix of four more. By authors such as Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Northrup Frye and Thomas Mann. Stock# 37,290. Vg/ paper.

Anchor Books/ Doubleday, Garden City, NY [1961]. Soft Cover. 480 p., index; paper; VG. 'With Contributions by Rudolf Anthes, Derk Bodde, W. Norman Brown, M. J. Dresden, Cyrus H. Gordon, Hans G. Güterbock, Michael H. Jameson, Miguel León-Portilla, E. Dale Saunders.' 'Cover design by Antonio Frasconi. Typography by Susan Sien.' Mythologies of ancient Egypt, Sumer & Akkad, Hittite, Canaanite, ancient Greece, India, ancient Iran, ancient China, Japanese, ancient Mexico. Stock# 26735. Religion; anthropology.

Secaucus, N.J. : Castle Books, ©1993.. Hard Cover. xvi, 477 p. : incl. illus., plates, port. ; 21 cm. Originally published: A book of New England legends and folk lore in prose and poetry. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1901. Includes extracts from writings of various authors including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Whittier, Longfellow. Arranged by region--e.g Boston, Salem, Cape Ann, Rhode Island... Stock# 44,650. Vg / dj vg.

Berkeley, University of California Press for the Folklore Society, 1963. Periodical. offprint from Western Folklore vol.XXII, no. 1, January, 1963, p.19-45. includes a list of 457 proverbs. Inscribed by the author. Stock# 41,970. Vg / offprint.

Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press,1992. Soft Cover. 6 p.l., 386 p., illus., 20.5 cm. Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1976. Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-380). Fifteen themesfrom the mythology of vaious Indian tribes. S.-B. Stock# 36,540, Vg, but the front cover is rippled as if a wet coat had been placed on it. No stain, no mark, just the ripples/ paper.

Barre, Mass., Barre Publishers [1966]. Hard Cover. 48 p. illus. 21 cm. Short sketches in unicorns in myth and legend. Bibliography: p. 48. Stock# 102,427x. Vg / dj vg.