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THE POPPY AND THE POMEGRANATE: THE STORY OF DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE, OR THE ORIGINS OF THE SEASONS

By: N/A

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Leicester, Grange Fibre: 1962

Seller ID: H12879

Binding: Pictorial hardcover

Condition: Very good +

22p. Signed by illustrator on front endpaper. Clear jacket. Color illustrations. (8-1/8"x5')
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YUGOSLAV PROVERBS (TEN CENT POCKET SERIES NO. 380) [COVER TITLE: LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO. 380]

By: Adamic, Louis; Compiled by & Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Girard, Kansas, Haldeman-Julius Co.: 1923

Seller ID: P6221

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Very good

64p. Cover edges lightly sunned. Last 2 leaves list other titles in the Ten Cent Pocket Series. [Christian; 500a] (5"x3-1/2")
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LITTLE DERMOT AND THE THIRSTY STONES, AND OTHER IRISH FOLK TALES

By: Bennett, Richard

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-McGann: 1953

Seller ID: H12905

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very good

[92p.] Endpapers and jacket foxed and toned, scraped jacket has 2 long tears on front and chips to edges with holes on flap folds. B&w illustrations. (8-1/2"x6-5/8")
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THE RICE FAIRY: KARE (KAREN) STORIES FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA

By: Harris, Edward Norman

Price: $24.00

Publisher: [Redlands, California], Simplicity Press: 1987

Seller ID: H12321

ISBN: 0929225333

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very good

81p. 1989 printing. Jacket flap folds scraped and edges chipped. "A collection of traditional stories from the obscure and mysterious Karen tribe of Burma and northern Thailand." Yellow ages with red text and illustrations. (8-3/4"x11-1/4")
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THE HORSE IN MAGIC AND MYTH

By: Howey, M. Oldfield

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, Castle Books: 1958

Seller ID: H7810

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xii, 238p. Cover and corners rubbed, jacket has large chips to edges. B&w illustrations and plates. (9-1/4"x6-1/4")
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DU FU HELPS THE POOR (STORIES ABOUT ANCIENT CHINESE LITERARY & ART FIGURES)

By: Hua Shiming, Adapted By

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Beijing, Zhaohua Publishing House: 1985

Seller ID: P4503

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

15p. Top corners curled, sticker shadow on front cover. Designed by Zhang Xizhu. Color illustrations. (9-7/8"x7-3/8")
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WU CHENG'EN AT YUNTAI MOUNTAIN (STORIES ABOUT ANCIENT CHINESE LITERARY AND ART FIGURES)

By: Hua Shiming, Adapted By

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Beijing, Morning Glory Press: 1986

Seller ID: P4504

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

23p. Cover rubbed with front scraped with light wear to edges. Designed by Zhang Xizhu. Color illustrations. (9-7/8"x7-1/4")
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EIRIK THE RED AND OTHER ICELANDIC SAGAS

By: Jones, Gwyn; Selected and translated with an introduction by

Price: $19.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1961

Seller ID: H9335

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good +

[xx], 318p. Pages have pencil marginalia, white stain on bottom of front cover and jacket, price clipped jacket has worn corners. Jacket design by William Stobbs. 582. (6"x3-7/8")
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UNDINE

By: La Motte-Fouqu, Friedrich de; Retold by Gertrude C. Schwebell

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1971

Seller ID: H11109

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

64p. 1st printing. Cover corners lightly worn, price clipped jacket rubbed and lightly soiled with chips and tears to edges. Simon & Schuster library edition label on jacket. Color illustrations. (9-1/4"x6-1/4")
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THE MOON PAINTERS AND OTHER ESTONIAN FOLK TALES

By: Maas, Selve

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1971

Seller ID: H2311

ISBN: 067048833X

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good+

143p. Cover corners slightly rubbed, clipped jacket has wear to corners and spine sunned. B&w illustrations. (9-1/2"x7-1/2")
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SEVEN (7) MAGIC ORDERS

By: Mui, Shan; Story Adaptation and Edited by Ruth Tabrah

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Norfolk Island, Australia, Island Heritage: 1973

Seller ID: H10756

ISBN: 0834830132

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unpaginated (approx. 78p.) Cover corners bumped, jacket corners lightly worn. Color illustrations. (10-1/4"x9-1/2")
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THE MERMAID READER; AND OF MERMEN, NIXIES, WATER NYMPHS, SEA SIRENS, SEA SERPENTS, SPRITES AND KINDRED CREATURES OF THE DEEP

By: O'Clery, Helen; Selected By

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Franklin Watts: 1964

Seller ID: H7278

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xii, 194p. Cover edges lightly worn, front pastedown a bit cockeyed from when book was bound, price clipped jacket has small chips, tears and creases to edges. A collection of stories and poems by a variety on writers including Oscar Wilde, the Brothers Grimm, Bret Harte, and Ogden Nash celebrating the title creatures. Jacket design by C. Walter Hodges. B&w illustrations. (9-1/2"x6-5/8")
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MUJERES FOLKLORISTAS (ESTUDIOS DE FOLKLORE, 3)

By: Rivera, Virginia Rodrguez

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Mexico City, Instituto de Investigaciones Estticas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mxico: 1967

Seller ID: H12866

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very good

[222p.] Glue stains on front endpapers, jacket has creased tears and chips to edges with corners worn and spine sunned. A collection of women folklorists of Latin America with a brief biography and photograph, their area of study, and a bibliography, where appropriate. Those included are Fernn Caballero, Nieves de Hoyos Sancho, Frances Gillmor, Edna Garrido de Boggs, Mara Cadilla de Martnez, Dora P. de Zrate, Isabel Aretz, Marquesa Caldern de la Barca, E. Mildres Merino de Zela, and the folklorists of Mexico: Carmen Galvn de la Rio, Cecilia Bertn Fontecilla, Mara de los ngeles Morena Enrquez, ...
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JAPANESE LEGENDS AND FOLK-TALES

By: Suzuki, Yoshimatsu; Introduction by Edward Gauntlett

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Sakurai Shoten: 1949

Seller ID: H12867

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good +

144p. Pages toned, name on flyleaf, spine sunned with a few stains, cover corners lightly worn. Collection of legends and folk tales compiled and written in English by Prof. Suzuki. (7-1/4"x5-1/4")
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MALAY PROVERBS (THE WISDOM OF THE EAST SERIES)

By: Winstedt, Richard; Chosen & Introduced by

Price: $24.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1950

Seller ID: H12202

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good +

viii, 85p. Cover spine sunned and bottom edges of cover scraped to cardboard. (6-3/4"x4-7/8")
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ALTE MRCHEN MIT DER FEDER ERZHLT VON MAX SLEVOGT, IN WORTE GEFESST VON JOACHIM ZIMMERMANN

By: Zimmermann, Joachim

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Berlin, Prophlen-Verlag: 1920

Seller ID: H12825

Binding: Hardcover w/gilt lettering

Condition: Fair +

Unpaginated (approx. 82p.) A bit of foxing to pages, moisture exposure has affected the page edges at spine and slightly loosened some of the tipped in leaves (although still secure), damp stain on cover with top and bottom of chipped leather spine missing. German fairy tales and folklore illustrated by Slevogt and recounted by Zimmermann. Color plates. (12-1/2"x15")
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