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MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE POLYNESIANS.

By: Andersen, Johannes C.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Rutland, Vermont, Charles E. Tuttle: 1986

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 28006

ISBN: 0804804141

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

514 pp, large 8vo (9" H). Red cloth with black title block/gold lettering. 16 colour plates, 44 b&w photographs, 13 line drawings, fold-out map at rear. Contents: Publisher's Foreword; Preface; List of Illustrations; Note on Proper Names; Polynesia and Its People; 'Koropanga and Rukutia; Kelea and Kalamakua; Uenuku; Fairies and Taniwha; The Tawhaki Cycle; Maui' (Maui-tikitiki-a-Taranga); Hina', Sister of Maui'; Pele the Fire-goddess; The Spirit Worlds; Io, Tangaroa, and Creation; The Areoi Society and the Hula Dance; Religious Observances; Authorities; Other Books of Hawaiian Interest;...
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THE SECRET WORLD OF THE FLOWER FAIRIES.

By: Barker, Cicely Mary.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne: 1998

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29760

ISBN: 072324457X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

127 pp, 10 1/4" H. Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout. "Have you ever wondered where the fairies dance at midnight balls or when fairy queens hold court? This delightful book delves into the mysterious private life of the Flower Fairies, revealing their deepest secrets and explaining the work-ings of their invisible communities. A treasure trove of whimsical information, (it) is sure to enchant readers, young and old." Contents: Introduction to the Flower Fairies; The Fairy Court; Homes and Housekeeping; Jobs; Baby Fairies; The Fairy Market; Animal Friends; Food; ...
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SPRING SONGS WITH MUSIC FROM "FLOWER FAIRIES OF THE SPRING".

By: Barker, Cicely Mary. Music by Olive Linnell.

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: London, Blackie & Son:

Seller ID: 30066

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

Unpaginated (approx. 52 pp.), 9 3/4" H. No publication date present, but inscription on front free endpaper is dated Xmas 1926, so probably the first edition. Blue cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards with dark blue lettering and pasted on "Speedwell Fairy" illustration on front board. 12 delightful, colour plates tipped in (including frontispiece) - all in very good condition. B&w drawings by C.M.B. on title and final page. Music notation for voice and piano. Includes: The Song of the Primrose Fairy; The Song of the Windflower Fairy; The Song of the Groundsel Fairy; The Son...
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FOLKLORE AND THE SEA.

By: Beck, Horace.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Mystic, Connecticut, Mystic Seaport Museum: 1996

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 30064

ISBN: 0913372366

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

545 pp, 8 7/8" H. B&w photographs, music notation. The American Maritime Library: Volume VI. "Everything you always wanted to know about sea lore but didn't know where to ask: shipbuilding; names and language; weather and navigation; songs and arts; seals, muckle men and mermaids; monsters, sea serpents and enchanted isles; reavers, privateers and smugglers; legends and tales; "spectre" ships - cooked up and served well salted by a first-rate writer who combines the knowledge of a sailor and a college professor." Oceans. Interior - clean and tight with no previous owner...
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THE MAGICAL ARTS: A SHORT HISTORY

By: Burland, C. A.

Price: $32.50 USD

Publisher: London, Arthur Barker: 1966

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25897

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

196 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H). B&w illustrations. "From the earliest time man has been fascinated by visions and dreams, and by the discovery that there were men who could, by magical powers, improve a crop or foretell the weather. As civilization grew there were demands for knowledge which would give control over other men or protection from the wiles of enemies. The study of magic and counter magic became important in the policy of states. Later magic was denounced as a work of the Devil, and then the Devil himself was demoted to become a laughing stock. Yet even nowadays there exis...
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THE TROUBLES OF QUEEN SILVER-BELL. AS TOLD BY QUEEN CROSSPATCH.

By: Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Illustrated by Harrison Cady.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Derrydale, New York, (1992).:

Seller ID: 12462

68 pp, 7 1/4" H, hard cover with pictorial boards - no dust jacket. Charming color illustrations by Harrison Cady (famous for his work on Thornton Burgess's books). Contains two short stories: "In the first Queen Silver-Bell loses her temper (which she normally keeps in a tiny silver cage) and becomes Queen Crosspatch. In the second a little girl is changed into a rook to hatch abandoned eggs." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor rubbing. Near Fine.
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SHADOWS ON THE HILL. A CHANGELING: THE DREAMING NOVEL. IMMORTAL EYES TRILOGY BOOK TWO.

By: Cassada, Jackie.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Clarkston, GA, White Wolf: 1996

Seller ID: 22306

ISBN: 781565048614

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

363 pp, 7" H. "They were changelings, faerie spirits trapped in mortal flesh. They were six oathmates, sworn to each other and to the completion of a quest. Together they would search for four powerful faerie treasures that would open a lost gateway back to their timeless home, the land of the Dreaming - the land of Arcadia. Their travels take them from San Francisco to the islands of Hawaii, where the mysterious menehune - the faerie spirits of the Pacific Isles - hold secrets long forgotten by their western cousins. Yet even as they pursue their goal, others are sworn to stop th...
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THE ARTOS SEQUENCE. 3 VOLUME SET. 1. A PRINCE AMONG MEN. 2. A KING BENEATH THE MOUNTAIN. 3. A KNIGHT AMONG KNAVES.

By: Charrette, Robert N.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Warner, (New York, 1994, 1995, 1995), Ist printings.:

Seller ID: 6704

302 pp + preview, 374 pp, 375 pp, paperbacks - 3 volumes. Cover art by Keith Birdsong. "The hi-tech cyber-sprawl of toxic wastes and soulless megacorporations collides with an ancient otherworld when Elven magic - good evil, chaotic, and powerful enough to transform or destroy worlds - awakes. This is the shadow war of nations, blocs, heroes, and monsters all battling to rule both Faery and the Future...Magic first explodes around dreamy young museum guard John Reddy when a goblin-haunted mystery woman forces him to bring King Arthur from the stasis of eons. Now, pursued from slums to ...
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THE BIGGEST DAY OF THE YEAR: THE OLD-TIME SCHOOL CHRISTMAS CONCERT.

By: Charyk, John C.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Western Producer Prairie Books: 1985

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28539

ISBN: 0888331711

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

134 pp, 11 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "The old-time Christmas concert is remembered almost unanimously by participants and onlookers alike as 'the biggest day of the year'. Every phase of the concert is featured in this wonderful book: from the first rehearsals to the unpredictably disastrous moments on concert night; from the welcome speech by a nervous preschooler to the climax of the program, the nativity pageant. The monologues and drills, costume songs and plays, gymnastics displays and minstrel acts are recalled vividly by participants in their own words and complemented by pri...
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ONE QUEST, HOLD THE DRAGONS. BOOK TWO OF CUPS AND SORCERY.

By: Costikyan, Greg.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, TOR / Tom Doherty: 1995

Edition: First Printing.

Seller ID: 22315

ISBN: 0812522699

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

376 pp. "The motley crew of adventurers who rescued the invaluable (and virtually undisguisable) statue of King Stantius from the dungeons below Urf Durfal in 'Another Day, Another Dungeon' are taking their show on the road to Arst-Kara-Morn. Along the route, Timaeus the wizard rescues an old school-fellow, Sidney takes on her cat form to escape from a dungeon, and new companion Frer Mortise rescues them all from a fairy ring where they could dance forever. When Broderick of Biddleburg steals the statue, the band is galvanized into action - in their own inimitable style! With great polyma...
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A FOLK TALE JOURNEY THROUGH THE MARITIMES.

By: Creighton, Helen. Edited with an introduction by Michael Taft and Ronald Caplan.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Wreck Cove, Cape Breton Island, Breton Books: 1993

Seller ID: 27723

ISBN: 1895415284

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

249 pp, 9" H. B&w photographs. "These are the folk tales from Dr. Helen Creighton's life journey through the Maritime Provinces, collecting songs and ghost stories and old cures - and folk tales. Helen serves as our guide, introducing us to storytellers, setting the scene of the telling - and then she lets the person tell it as they told it to her. The feel of the kitchen and the fish shed still cling to these stories. Some are long, really miraculous folk tales - miraculous in detail and in that they managed to survive. Others are the brief riddle or the tantalizing quick-tellin...
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THE DARK SPIRIT: SINISTER PORTRAITS FROM CELTIC HISTORY.

By: Curran, Bob. (Dr. Robert Curran.)

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: London, Cassell Llustrated: 2005

Seller ID: 29028

ISBN: 1844034577

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Near Fine

256 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. Contents: Introduction; The Wolf of Badenoch (Scotland); 'Burn the Ladle' - The Witches of Tain (Scotland); The Devil and the Doctor (Ireland); Weir the Waerlock (Scotland); The Woman who Talked with the Fairies and the Witch of Helston (Cornwall); The Magician of Marblehead and his Granddaughter (USA); The Wizard Earl (Ireland); The Fairy Woman of Bodmin (Cornwall); The Demon in the Church (Wales); Witchfinder (Wales); Cruel Coppinger (Cornwall); The Black Sisters of Christiansburg (USA); The Vampire Lady of Rhode Island (USA); 'Burn, Witch, Burn!' ...
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TAPPING THE DREAM TREE.

By: de Lint, Charles (Delint).

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, TOR: 2002

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30570

ISBN: 0312874014

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

541 pp, 8 1/2" H. "The city of Newford could be any contemporary North American city - except that magic lurks in its music, in its art, in the shadows of its grittiest streets, where mythic beings walk disguised. And its people are like you and me, each looking for a bit of magic to shape their lives and transform their fate. Now, in this latest volue, we meet a bluesman hiding from the Devil; a Buffalo Man at the edge of death; a murderous ghost looking for revenge; a wolf man on his first blind date; and many more. We're reunited with Jilly, Geordie, Sophie, the Crow Girls, and oth...
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SCOTTISH LORE AND FOLKLORE.

By: Douglas, Ronald MacDonald, compiler.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Beekman House: 1982

Seller ID: 27994

ISBN: 0517366037

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

368 pp, 8vo (8 1/8" H). B&w illustrations. Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Poetry; Introduction to Folklore; Bairn's Rhymes; Rhymes and Saws on Places; Rhymes about the Weather; The Low Road; Two Tales (The King O' the Cats / The Story of Heather Ale); Thomas the Rhymer; The Waiting Warriors; Language; Names - Anglicized Forms into Gaelic; Days and Months in Gaelic; Clans; Clan Slogans; Appelations to Clans, Families and Towns; Clan Badges; Dyes; Place Names; Battles Fought on Scottish Soil; Land and Water; The Burghs; Ross and Cromarty; Stewartry; Weather; Law; Money and Measures; Pro...
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THE LIFE AND ART OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK 1792-1878.

By: Evans, Hilary and Evans, Mary.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, S.G. Phillips: 1978

Seller ID: 27804

ISBN: 0875992277

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

192 pp, 11 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w reproductions. "When George Cruikshank died, (over) a hundred years ago, he was admired as an artist, respected as a reformer, loved as a man. But he had lived so long and created so much that few could discern any unity underlying the diverse creations of his seventy-year working life - creations ranging from a thumbnail caricature of Napoleon III ('it never reigns but it bores!') to the four-metres-wide 'Worship of Bacchus' which now hangs, dusty and neglected, in the storerooms of the Tate Gallery. For some he was the artist who ...
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Image for SPELLSINGER SERIES. VOLUMES 1-6 & 8. 1. SPELLSINGER. 2. THE HOUR OF THE GATE. 3. THE DAY OF DISSONANCE. 4. THE MOMENT OF THE MAGICIAN. 5. THE PATHS OF THE PERAMBULATOR. 6. THE TIME OF THE TRANSFERENCE. 8. CHORUS SKATING. 7 BOOKS IN TOTAL.

SPELLSINGER SERIES. VOLUMES 1-6 & 8. 1. SPELLSINGER. 2. THE HOUR OF THE GATE. 3. THE DAY OF DISSONANCE. 4. THE MOMENT OF THE MAGICIAN. 5. THE PATHS OF THE PERAMBULATOR. 6. THE TIME OF THE TRANSFERENCE. 8. CHORUS SKATING. 7 BOOKS IN TOTAL.

By: Foster, Alan Dean.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Warner:

Seller ID: 30627

Binding: Mass Market Paperbacks

Condition: Very Good

Seven volumes of the "Spellsinger" series - 1-6, plus volume 8, 6 3/4" H. **Please note: volume 7 - "Son of Spellsinger" - is NOT included in this grouping.** 1. Spellsinger - 347 pp, 1983 4th printing, ISBN 0446903523. "The Wizard's World. It was where beasts walked and talked as men, armed with sword and dagger. And it was where Clothahump, turtle and wizard, stretched his powers of sorcery, seeking a source to the unknown evil that threatened his land, seeking a helper from another dimension, another universe. And so Jonathan Thomas Meriweather - grad student and r...
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FAIRY FANTASIES.

By: Graham, Marguerite.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Frederik Lunning: 1940

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 13629

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Unpaginated, 4to (11 3/16" H) - decorated green boards, brown slipcase. Signed by author on title page. A series of poems, printed on one side of the page only, with decorated monotone borders. Titles: Fairy Weavers; Mother Goose's Party; My Star Garden; The Garden Party; A Woodland Wedding; A Daffodil Baby; A Vaudeville Show; Fire Fairies; The Fairies Ball; Mud Pies; The Moonbeam Fairy; The Sand-Man; The Lazy Daisy; Grandmother's Rose Jar; The 'larm Clock; The Magic Garden; John Pumpkin's Ghost; The Tea Party. A few scattered faint fingerprints throughout pages plus some very light ha...
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RAGGEDY ANN IN THE SNOW WHITE CASTLE.

By: Gruelle, Johnny.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill: 1960

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 30106

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

95 pp, 9 1/4" H. Pictorial front cover, yellow endpapers, b&w and color illustrations throughout. Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy encounter many strange folk on their journey to a Snow White Castle where they reverse a sleeping curse with the help of a magical golden ring. Small edge tear at bottom of page leaf 73/74 - archivally taped, a few page edges with a soft wrinkle(s), slight lean to spine, light to moderate edge wear, small shallow bump at top edge of rear board, a few very small rub marks on rear board.
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THE BOOK OF FAIRIES.

By: Hague, Michael, selected and illustrated by. (J.M. Barrie, Hans Christian Andersen, Christina Rossetti, M. Wallace-Dunlop, M. Rivett-Carnac, Charlotte-Rose Caumont de la Force, Elizabeth Grierson, Virginia Haviland, William Allingham.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: HarperCollins: 2000

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29857

ISBN: 0688108814

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

125 pp, 10 1/4" H. Colour pictorial endpapers, profusely illustrated throughout in colour and b&w. "In stories, songs, and poems, fairies have lived tantalizingly close to human folk for centuries. Unpredictable and elusive, they've brought luck and done harm, while people have longed for a glimpse of their magical world. In his illustrations for this rich and varied collection, Michael Hague, one of America's most beloved painters of fantasy, create a fabled world that belongs to the fairies." Contents: 'Lock-out Time' by J.M. Barrie; 'Thumbelina' by Hans Christian Andersen; 'G...
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THE PRINCESS IDLEWAYS: A FAIRY STORY.

By: Hays, W.J., Mrs.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York, (c1879).:

Seller ID: 13475

124 pp, small 8vo (7 13/16" H), hard cover (blue cloth with pictorial front board) - no dust jacket. B&w illustrations. A spoiled and lazy Princess is sent to live in the forest with Motherkin, a fairy, and learns to be useful and happy. Interior - previous owner's name on front pastedown, Sunday School prize label tipped in on free front endpaper, small letter "G" written on rear pastedown, endpapers browned with a few foxing marks, pages browning lightly. book very lightly cracked in a few places. Exterior - small letter "D" written on bottom part of spine, darkening ...
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