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Dei Kleine Seehjungfrau [The Little Mermaid]

By: (Wulfing, Sulamith) Anderson, Hans Christian

Price: $185.00

Publisher: Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Sulamith Wulfing: 1953

Seller ID: 10501

1st ed. Self-published by Wulfing in 1953. Limited printing and now scarce. German text. The suite of illustrations consists of 8 color images and 8 monotone illustrations. Bound in gold-stamped cardboard cover. Interior is clean and bright; light surface wear and light age-toning to covers; a 1/4" spot on back cover.
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LETTERS CONCERNING MYTHOLOGY

By: Anonymous [Thomas Blackwell and Others]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, n.p.: 1748

Seller ID: k200801d

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

8vo, full calf. [xvi] 411 [index xv] Thomas Blackwell (1701-1757) was a Scottish classical scholar who wrote influential works on Homer as well as on Greek mythology. There are nineteen letters in all, the first six written anonymously, with Blackwell responsible for letters seven to nineteen. Classical mythology had been discussed throughout the Christian era from a variety of unsympathetic standpoints: firstly by critics who saw it as a fanciful form of history; next by Christian commentators who treated the classical gods as thinly-disguised demons; and finally by modern rationalists who...
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LOCAL TALES AND HISTORICAL SKETCHES.

By: Bailey, Henry D. B.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: NY: Fishkill Standard: 1874

Seller ID: d17121004

Condition: Good

8vo, dark brown cloth, gilt titles on spine. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Bailey tipped in, 431 pages. Slavery, Freedom, and Ghosts in the Hudson River Valley - a mixture of fact and fable. Good. Rubbed at top bottom of spine, corners; bits of newspaper residue on back cover. Newspaper obituaries of Bailey glued to front end papers. Some damp-staining to flyleaf page with tipped portrait but not affecting the photo. Front hinge weak but intact. Text block otherwise clean and tight with no foxing.
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Time and the Gods

By: Dunsany, Lord

Price: $750.00

Publisher: New York & London, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1922

Seller ID: 121318

Small 4to. Vellum-backed orange cloth, front, spine and rear panels ruled in gold, leather label lettered and ruled in gold affixed to spine panel, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges untrimmed, marbled endpapers. Limited edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Dunsany with each plate signed by artist Sidney H. Sime. A deluxe edition of Dunsany's second book, first published in 1906 by William Heinemann. New "preface" by Dunsany dated 19 October 1922. See Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-118. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 574. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 75. Tymn (ed), Fant...
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The Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art: Volume 2: Military Sciences, Naval Sciences, Architecture, Mythology, Fine Arts, Technology

By: J. G. Heck

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Published by Rudolph Garrigue, NY: 1851

Seller ID: k200312d

Condition: Good

4to, first ed. Volume 2 only. 237 pages, with several to more than a dozen steel engravings on each. German publisher and author Johann Georg Heck published this 6-volume attempt to organize science, literature, and art in an accessible, graphic, format. He published this first English edition in 1851. Since that time it has become a standard of copyright free illustration and clipart worldwide, with millions of copies in print over the past 150 years. From the intro to the first volume, not present here: “Never before have the plates about sciences, arts, daily life, culture and war, ...
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Three Famous English Romances: The Gallant Atchievements Of Robin Hood; The Famous History Of Fryer Bacon: The Romance Of Robert The Devil

By: Nelson, Harold

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Otto Schulze and Co: 1913

Seller ID: k190126h

Condition: Good

1st ed. 4to, red cloth with gilt decorations and titles, 156 pp. Illustrated with wood enravings and ornamentation. 3 volumes in one. Original publisher’s catalog entry clipped and pasted to front flyleaf. CONDITION: Good; rubbed at corners and spine ends, front hinge lightly cracked. Light foxing to bottom of first several pages and occasional page edges; otherwise a clean copy with very good-near fine appearance internally.
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Navajo Omens and Taboos

By: Newcomb, Franc Johnson

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Santa Fe, The Rydal Press: 1940

Seller ID: k200120d

Condition: Fine

1st edition, small 4to, brown cloth. 79 pp. Signed and hand-numbered ‘616’ on half-title page by author. Fourteen illustrations in black and white and at center a full color silk-screen print of a sandpainting of the brown Gila monsters and horned toads. Collection of Navajo cultural beliefs by the Newcombs, who operated a trading post on the reservation. A fine, virtually pristine copy in very good d/w, very lightly toned with edgewear at top. Prior owner’s bookplate inside front panel.
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Ten Fables

By: Robert Lewis Stevenson

Price: $65.00

Publisher: The Swan Press, London: 1928

Seller ID: k180226h

Condition: Near fine

1st ed. thus. 8vo, Quarter-bound in tan cloth over printed boards with the swan logo. With twenty one woodcut illustrations by Rachel Russell. Printed on hand-made paper and limited to 250 copies; this being no. 193. A near fine copy with light rubbing at corners and toning to end papers. Affixed to the inside back cover is one of the scarce ½” square ‘R.L. Stevenson Copyright” lables with a hand-inked price. These were placed in the back of some of Stevenson’s posthumously published works by representatives of his estate in order to permit collection of copyright royalties. ...
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The “Spiritual” Trilogy: Song Celestial, Light of Asia, Kasidah. 3 near-mint vols, in original boxes

By: [Willy Pogany] Edwin Arnold, Sir Richard Burton

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Philadelphia , David McKay Company: 1931-1934

Seller ID: s200703a

Binding: Black cloth with pictorial insets

Condition: Fine

3 volumes. 1st editions, Small 4to, silver and black cloth with pictorial insets, silver lettering on spine. Illustrations by Willy Pogany. Each in publisher’s two-part box with printed labels. While the books are quite common, these are the best copies we have seen in several decades of selling; hence, sold as a set only. #### Burton, Richard. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi. Translated and annotated by His friend and Pupil Sir Richard Burton. Introduction by Dhan Gopal Mukerji. 1931. Xv [1] 129 pp. 12 plates. Burton wrote this visionary poetry himself, using Haji Abdu El Yezdi a...
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