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ANNUAL '95: FICTION. ILLUSTRATORS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS. ILLUSTRATORI DI LIBRI PER RAGAZZI.

By: N/A

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: North South Books: 1995

Seller ID: 12738

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Near Fine

190 pp, 11" H. Profusely illustrated in color. "This is the official catalog of the 1995 Fiction Exhibition (of the Bologna International Children's Book Fair), showcasing recent work by some of the finest illustrators of children's fiction from around the world. The pictures were chosen for their originality, their artistic and technical merit, and their child appeal. Along with the beautifully reproduced artwork, essential biographical information about each artist is listed, making this catalog an ideal reference for all who delight in contemporary children's book illustration." Interio...
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GERMAN FAIRY TALES. NEW SERIES.

By: Andersen, Hans Christian.

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Leavitt & Allen: 1871

Seller ID: 30439

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

380 pp + 4 pp publisher's advertisements, 7 13/16" H. Purple cloth with gilt & black decoration on spine and front board, blind stamp on rear board, blue endpapers. 6 b&w plates, including tissue-covered frontispiece. The publisher has taken liberties in titling these works of the beloved Danish author "German Fairy Tales". Contents; What the Moon Saw; The Story of the Year; She was Good for Nothing; "There is a Difference"; Every Thing in its Right Place; The Goblin and the Huskster; In a Thousand Years; The Bond of Friendship; Jack the Dullard. An Old Story told Anew; Something; Under th...
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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; Glo...
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SECRET GERMANY: CLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG AND THE MYSTICAL CRUSADE AGAINST HITLER.

By: Baigent, Michael and Leigh, Richard.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1994

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24323

ISBN: 0224035258

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

337 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). B&w photographs, maps. "At thirty-seven, Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg, Chief of Staff of the Reich Reserve Army, was a charismatic figure destined for supreme command. The group of conspirators with whom he conceived the plot to kill Hitler in July 1944 was called 'Secret Germany'. That was also the name of the esoteric circle in which Stauffenberg as a young man had been a disciple of the mystic anti-Nazi magus and poet Stefan George. What was it that motivated this extraordinary aristocratic soldier, with the looks of a Hollywood idol, who was sai...
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SECRET GERMANY: CLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG AND THE MYSTICAL CRUSADE AGAINST HITLER.

By: Baigent, Michael and Leigh, Richard.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London, Penguin: 1995

Seller ID: 24335

ISBN: 0140247165

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

337 pp, mass market paperback. B&w photographs, map, family tree. "In July 1944 a group of conspirators known as Secret Germany attempted to kill Hitler. The mastermind of the conspiracy was Count Claus von Stauffenberg. Who was this charismatic, dashing aristocrat, who was said to be the only man to stare the Fuhrer down? What were the secret teachings that inspired him to the audacious act of assassination? Forty-six serious but failed attempts on Hitler's life in twenty years reflect a strong anti-Nazi movement in Germany. For Stauffenberg, the bomb plot organized by his esoteric cir...
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CASSANDRA, PRINCESS OF TROY.

By: Bailey, Hilary.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London, (1993), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 10788

325 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. Cassandra, having lived quietly on a farm for twenty years, begins to write her reminiscences of the past. It is a "tragic story, taken from one of the oldest and most famous tales ever told - the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. It begins with Helen's flight, with Paris of Troy, from her husband. It tells of how a Greek army crossed the sea to attack Troy and bring back Helen, of the fall of Troy and its terrible aftermath. In this wonderfully vivid historical novel the author imagines Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess, did not die as i...
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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; Music; Dance...
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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 ownership marks. Exterio...
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ABORIGINAL MYTHS.

By: Bozic, Sreten. In conjunction with Alan Marshall.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Melbourne, Gold Star: 1972

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28016

ISBN: 0726001139

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

143 pp, 8 5/8" H. Profusely illustrated with colour photographs. "Alan Marshall is called 'Gurawilla' or 'Song maker' by the natives of Arnhem Land. He and Sreten Bozic have studied the few remaining nomadic aboriginal tribes in Australia and have come to love and admire their culture. This book is the result of their knowledge of, and respect for, a race which had and still has vastly different - and perhaps superior - ideals from those of the white invaders who commandeered their lives and land. For, until the advent of the white man, the Aboriginals lived in complete accord with nature...
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THE PATRIOT GAME: NATIONAL DREAMS & POLITICAL REALITIES.

By: Brimelow, Peter.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter: 1986

Seller ID: 28519

ISBN: 1550130013

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

310 pp, 9 1/2" H. "(A)rgues that Canada ought to be a second Switzerland, with a living standard actually higher than that of the U.S. But in fact it is embroiled in a tangle of regional and linguistic quarrels, mainipulated by both the Liberals and their Mulroney Tory imitators, and an elite in Ottawa that truly represents neither Anglophones nor Francophones. 'The Patriot Games' offers an unconventional view of Canada that will shatter many myths. Brimelow endorses the argument of Goldwin Smith's 1891 classic 'Canada and the Canadian Question' that our country is 'rich by nature, poor by...
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CELTIC TALES.

By: Chmelova, Elena. Foreword by Frank Delaney.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Twickenham, Tiger Books International: 1998

Seller ID: 21028

ISBN: 1840560266

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

205 pp, 4to (11" H). Pictorial endpapers. B&w and colour illustrations. A collection of 21 "most unusual folk and fairy tales. The Irish stories go back to the great Sagas, and there are also Celtic tales from Scotland, Wales and Brittany. The characters - kings, elves, peasants, monsters, heroes and lovely ladies - talk to one another the way real people do. The countryside as it was long ago is precisely and powerfully evoked; the stories are full of high adventure and romance, humour and pathos. They take the reader into a world of fantasy which is at the same time intensely real." ...
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CELTIC TALES.

By: Chmelova, Elena. Foreword by Frank Delaney.

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Twickenham, Tiger Books International: 1998

Seller ID: 29769

ISBN: 1840560266

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

CHARIOT: THE ASTOUNDING RISE AND FALL OF THE WORLD'S FIRST WAR MACHINE.

By: Cotterell, Arthur.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Pimlico: 2004

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29759

ISBN: 0712669426

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

344 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, drawings, maps. "The chariot changed the face of ancient warfare. First in West Asia and Egypt, then in India and China, charioteers came to dominate the battlefield. In 1274 B.C. at Kadesh in present-day Syria - where the untried pharoah Ramesses II was nearly defeated by the Hittites - some 5,000 chariots were deployed in battle. Its use as a war machine is grapically recounted in Indian epics and Chinese chronicles. Homer's Illiad tells of the attack on Troy by Greek heroes who rode in chariots. In 325 B.C. Alexander the Great faced charioteers in northe...
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Image for A TREASURY OF AFRO-AMERICAN FOLKLORE: THE ORAL LITERTURE, TRADITIONS, RECOLLECTIONS, LEGENDS, TALES, SONGS, RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, CUSTOMS, SAYINGS, AND HUMOR OF PEOPLES OF AFRICAN DESCENT IN THE AMERICAS.

A TREASURY OF AFRO-AMERICAN FOLKLORE: THE ORAL LITERTURE, TRADITIONS, RECOLLECTIONS, LEGENDS, TALES, SONGS, RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, CUSTOMS, SAYINGS, AND HUMOR OF PEOPLES OF AFRICAN DESCENT IN THE AMERICAS.

By: Courlander, Harold.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, SMITHMARK: 1996

Seller ID: 27989

ISBN: 0765197332

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

618 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w decorations by Enrico Arno, b&w photographs, musical notations. "(A) notable milestone in the collection and presentation of oral literature and traditions from black communities in the Western Hemisphere. It demonstrates the powerful cultural influence of Africa on this side of the Atlantic. (I)ncludes a wide array of orally transmitted traditions of the numerous, sometimes disparate, African-American cultures of the New World. Among these traditions are tales of scoundrels, heroes, rollicking adventures, friendship, and much more: songs, myths, myth-leg...
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THE MYTHIC WORLD OF THE ZUNI.

By: Cushing, Frank Hamilton. Edited by Barton Wright.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press: 1994

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 27740

ISBN: 0826313876

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good -

167 pp, 10" H. B&w illustrations. "First recorded over a hundred years ago by Frank Hamilton Cushing (the first participant observer of a native American Indian population), these tales have remained buried in an 1891 Bureau of American Ethnology report. Barton Wright has collected twenty-five of them, edited them, and provided extensive annotation. He shows how each myth compares to its parallel among other pueblos, glosses native terms, and illustrates each story with excellent scratchboard drawings. Within the Zuni world of myth and legends lies tales of adventure, epic journeys, and t...
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MEMORY AND DREAM.

By: de Lint, Charles. (Charles deLint).

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: New York, TOR: 1994

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 19563

ISBN: 0312855729

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

400 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). "(T)he most ambitious of de Lint's extraordinary career, an exciting tale of epic scope that explores the power our dreams have to transform the world - or make it a waking nightmare." Light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor soiling on rear board. Dust jacket has moderate edge creasing - mainly along top edge, light edge wrinkling elsewhere, very light rubbing, very minor soiling, very light edge wear.
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THE IVORY AND THE HORN: A NEWFORD COLLECTION.

By: de Lint, Charles. (Charles deLint).

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, TOR: 1995

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25136

ISBN: 0312855737

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

318 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). Contents: Waifs and Strays; Mr. Truepenny's Book Emporium and Gallery; The Forest is Crying; The Wishing Well; Dead Man's Shoes; Bird Bones and Wood Ash; A Tempest in Her Eyes; Saxophone Joe and the Woman in Black; The Bone Woman; Pal O' Mine; Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night; Dream Harder, Dream True; The Pochade Box; Coyote Stories; The Forever Trees. "In de Lint's capable hands, modern fantasy becomes something other than escapism. It becomes folk song, the stuff of urban myth - In the fictional city of Newford, replete with brutal realities of modern urban life...
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Image for DAVID SULLIVAN SEQUENCE. FIRST 5 NOVELS. 1. WINDMASTER'S BANE. 2. FIRESHAPER'S DOOM. 3. DARKTHUNDER'S WAY. 4. SUNSHAKER'S WAR. 5. STONESKIN'S REVENGE.

DAVID SULLIVAN SEQUENCE. FIRST 5 NOVELS. 1. WINDMASTER'S BANE. 2. FIRESHAPER'S DOOM. 3. DARKTHUNDER'S WAY. 4. SUNSHAKER'S WAR. 5. STONESKIN'S REVENGE.

By: Deitz, Tom.

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: New York, Avon:

Seller ID: 30061

Binding: Mass Market Paperbacks

Condition: Very Good

The first 5 books of the David Sullivan sequence - 6 7/8" H. 1. Windmaster's Bane - 279 pp, 1986 2nd printing, ISBN 0380750295 - "In Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, tales are told of strange lights, of mysterious roads - of wondrous folk from enchanted realms. Young David Sullivan never dreamed that the myths of marvels and magic he loved were real. But in his blood was the gift of Second Sight. And near his family's rural farm lay an invisible track between worlds - where he would soon become a pawn in the power game of the Windmaster, an evil usurper among those the Celts called the Sidhe."...
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QUICKSILVER. SECOND BOOK OF THE LADY TREE TRILOGY.

By: Dickason, Christie.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, HarperCollins: 1999

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2536

ISBN: 0002243555

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

464 pp, 9 1/2" H. "Quicksilver is part romance, part psychologicl thriller. Richly evocative and subtly erotic, it gives a fascinating insight into the myth of the werewolf. Raised in exile as an English gentleman trying to forget a tragic past, Ned Malise wanted only to be left alone with his music, his rich daydreams and his love for Marika. But at the age of thirty-three, he suddenly began to turn into a wolf. Or so it seemed in 1638, when werewolves were still tried and hanged like witches. On the run from hunters with dogs, Ned takes refuge with the woman he has loved from a distanc...
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THE MEANING OF PUCK: HOW HOCKEY EXPLAINS MODERN CANADA.

By: Dowbiggin, Bruce.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter: 2008

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25609

ISBN: 1554700418

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

232 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "In a series of essays that is a road trip across the nation's cultural landscape, (Dowbiggin) shows how the national passion for hockey reflects - or deflects - the issues of globalization, regionalism, anti-Americanism, militarism, violence, racism and greed. Why are Canadians, for instance, such strenuous advocates of pacifism and non-militarism around the world while simultaneously embracing - and promoting - the world's most vicious and violent brand of hockey? As the legion of apologists for Todd Bertuzzi's thuggish play dramatize, it's not the Americans who po...
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Keyword: Myths