EKATERINA ALEKSIEVA AND DINNA ANCHEVA

Ancient Magic in Bulgarian Folklore

Sofia, Kalimana. 1991. Soft cover. Folk customs, games and songs, with music and photographs. No inscriptions, VG. Very Good.

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Book number: BYB12058

Catalogue: Folklore

Keywords: folk lore, Bulgaria legend mythology

BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI

The Decameron: Book II: The Third and Fourth Day

Calcutta, Susil Gupta. 1944. Hardcover. Vol 2 only, days 3 and 4. With woodcuts. Good only: boards worn and marked, large chip to the upper spine, academic-library label to front paste-down, one gathering loose. Good.

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Book number: BYB11910

Catalogue: Folklore

Keywords: folklore, storytelling legend Fiction

GERALDINE ELLIOT, ILLUSTRATED BY SHEILA HAWKINS

The Hunter's Cave: A Book of Stories Based on African Folk Tales

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1954. Hardcover. Second impression. Light wear to yellow cloth, illustrative end-papers, prize label from Mbeya School dated 1954 to the ffep verso, otherwise clean and sound, generally VG, in worn, marked, chipped, mended, good DJ. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: BYB12332

Catalogue: Folklore

Keywords: folk lore, folktales, folk tales, Africa legend Africa

FR. LORENTZ, ADAM FISCHER AND TADEUSZ LEHR-SPLAWINSKI, PREFACE BY BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI

The Cassubian Civilization

London, Faber & Faber. 1935. Hardcover. A detailed ethnographic study of this Slavonic people; plates, text figures, fold-out map. Blue cloth worn, marked and sunned to the spine, name to ffep, clean, sound, good, no DJ. Good.

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Book number: BYB12469

Catalogue: Folklore

Keywords: folklore, ethnography, Poland

GILL, MIKE

The Barleycorn Zodiac

Kirkcudbright, Gems. 2004. (ISBN: 095423202x). Soft cover. Linking astrological symbols to the brewing of beer, through Robert Burns' ballad Sir John Barleycorn. Small stapled booklet, covers worn and marked, signed by the author to the front cover verso, internally clean and sound, good. Good. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: BYB11900

Catalogue: Folklore

Keywords: 095423202x folklore, mythology legend mythology

ROSEMARY GRIMBLE

Taburimai's Children and Nei Auti and Rimwimata

Hibiscus. Soft cover. Signed by the author to the half title page. Undated, but the author's signature is dated 1998. A myth and a legend from Kiribati in the Pacific, collected by Sir Arthur Grimble. Small stapled booklet, VG. Very Good. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: BYB12333

Catalogue: Folklore

Keywords: folk lore, folk tale, folktale, Kiribati, Gilbert Islands legend mythology

ALBERT M POTTS

The World's Eye

Lexington, University Press of Kentucky. 1982. (ISBN: 0813113873). Hardcover. Symbols of the eye in world culture, fully illustrated, a scholarly study. VG, no inscriptions, in lightly worn DJ, generally VG. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: BYB12330

Catalogue: Folklore

Keywords: 0813113873 folklore, folk lore, mythology, legend legend mythology

PUSHKIN, TRANSLATED BY JANET DALLEY, INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BAYLEY, LITHOGRAPHS BY ARTHUR BOYD

Pushkin's Fairy Tales

London, Barrie & Jenkins. 1978. Hardcover. A prose translation of Pushkin's verse, with evocative b/w illustrations. The corner of the ffep is clipped, but otherwise VG, in marked and edge-worn, price-clipped, good DJ. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: BYB11624

Catalogue: Folklore

Keywords: folktales, Russia, Russian Art Poetry

RETOLD BY BARBARA KER WILSON, ILLUSTRATED BY G W MILLER

Fairy Tales of Mexico

London/New York, Cassell/Dutton. 1960. Hardcover. First edition. Contains How the Basilisk got his Crest; The Legend of the Mountain; The Thief in the Cornfield; The Coyote and the Turtle. Laminated illustrative covers a little worn and marked, missing spine but neatly taped, slight foxing to illustrative eps, otherwise good. Good.

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Book number: BYB12471

Catalogue: Folklore

Keywords: folklore, folktales, Mexico