Books about popular myth and beliefs relating to a particular place, activity, or group of people
Time Life, 1986. 4th printing. Hardcover. 4to. Complete 21 volume hardcover set in multicolored cloth. Gilt titling + decor and color illustrated pastedown on each top board. Each volume is tightly bound with straight spine. Pages are crisp, unmarked and full of lovely color illustration throughout. Minor aging present in.....
Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Rackham, Arthur. 1st edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Stated first edition. Hardbound in blue cloth with gilt titling and characters on top board. Gilt titled spine sunned and rubbed around ends. Corners bumped and board margins faintly discolored. Light scuffing to surface of top board. Binding remains.....
The N-K-Fairbank Company, 1898. 2nd. Pamphlet. 12mo. Text block is loose and unattached from paper wrappers; all pages are present and without any folds or creases. Fully color illustrated pages are warmly toned and remain unmarked. Paper wraps are decorated with lovely two-tonal red and green illustration and titling and.....
Donohue, Henneberry & Co. Hardcover. 4to. No date listed though likely published in 1890s. Text is unmarked on clean, warmly toned pages with a lovely black and white illustration a vis to each page of text-- front flyleaf with black and white frontispiece on its other side is detached but.....
George G. Harrap & Co., 1926. Orr, Monro S. Hardcover. 8vo. Book has been rebound in cheap, textured brown buckram boards, ruled in gilt with gilt lettered and decorated spine. Binding is loosened. Pages rounded. Gray endpapers. Boards are scuffed across edges and spine margins. Spine ends and corners bumped.....
Milner and Sowerby, 1858. 24Mo, Hardcover. 256pp. Brown textured boards, gilt golden lettering on spine. Text is clean on unmarked, uncreased natural pages. Hinges are secure, textblock has slight lean and lightly bumped corners. Considerable overall shelf/timewear, boardwear, abrasions and small tears on boards, spottage and watermarks, foxing and full.....
George G. Harrap & Co., 1932. Laboccetta, Mario. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. 206pp. Color illustrated text remains unmarked on warmly toned pages with 10 full color illustrated plates throughout from Mario Laboccetta. Pages are only marked by a previous owners name penned in ink on the front flyleaf. Text block is.....
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1928. Orr, Monro S. Reprint. Rebound. Hardcover. 8vo. Rebound in cheap brown buckram- boards are ruled in gilt, spine titled and decorated in gilt. Pages rounded. Includes all seven color plates and color frontis. Binding loosened. Boards are edge worn and moderately rubbed. Small.....
Phyllis Fogelman Books, 1999. Signed. 4To Hardcover. Signed with a handsome signature by Pickney on front end-page. Text is unmarked on white pages with colorful illustrations. Bound in vibrant, shiny boards with crisply pointed corners. Binding is square and tight; hinges are fully attached. Jacket is glossy with minimal wear.....
E.P. Dustton & Co., 1929. Beverly, Katharine & Ellender, Elizabeth. Hardcover. 8vo. 209pp. Deckle edged pages remain solely marked by faint age spots. Includes a color frontispiece + 49 lovely color illustrated plates in black, white and red throughout and fully illustrated end papers. Red cloth boards are decorated with.....
Morrow Junior Books, 1999. Pinkney, Jerry. Signed. 4To Hardcover. Signed by the illustrator on title page. Text is unmarked with full-color pictures throughout. Bound in vibrantly illustrated boards with crisply pointed corners. Binding is square and tight; hinges are fully attached. Jacket is glossy with minimal wear and price remains.....
Luke-Gyesi Appiah, 2004. Pamphlet. 8vo. 67p. Crisp white pages unmarked. Stapled binding secure. Covers are moderately scuffed around margins and sunned.
Woeli Publishing Services, 2002. Pamphlet. 8vo. 27p. Crisp white pages unmarked. Stapled binding secure. Minor shelf wear present to covers. Small smudge on title.
Bjartur, 2008. 8Vo Obl. Hardcover. Pictorial boards, white lettering on spine. Text and artwork is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges secure, textblock is square with pointed corners. Minimal overall shelf/timewear, boardwear, abrasion on foot of spine.
Woeli Publishing Services, 2002. Abridged. 8Vo Softcover. 40pp. Text is unmarked on bright pages with b/w illustrations. Stapled binding is secure. Covers are worn with surface scratches, bumped corners and fading. Edges are lightly rubbed. Title page has oil stains and old pencil markings.
New York: The Library of Facetious Lore, 1928. Hamza, Akos D. Limited. Hardcover. 4to. "Privately printed for The Library of Facetious Lore" limited to 750 copies, of which this is numbered 73 on limitation page. Bound in blue and yellow cloth with paper label on backstrip. Hinges are loosened but.....
Macmillan and Co., 1911. Goble, Warwick. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth covered boards show shiny, intact gilt titling on front board and spine and gilt woman in a dress in the center of the cover- faintly rubbed. Boards are mildly edge worn with bumped corners and a sunned spine. There is.....
The Burrows Brothers Company, 1895. 1st edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Numbered 494 of 600 printed. 125pp. Unmarked, handmade pages include double page frontispiece, nine b/w illustrated plates and 14 illuminated pages with woodcut initials from Will H. Bradley. Two tonal text in red and black. Top edge gilt of deckle edged.....
Woeli Publishing Services, 2000. Reprint. Pamphlet. 8vo. Stapled binding square and secure. Wraps sunned around margins and only lightly shelf worn. 24p. Crisp, white pages unmarked.
Pantheon Books, 1976. Paperback. 8vo. Text unmarked on white pages. Binding square, faintly creased and secure. Spine bumped at either end. Covers are clean with lightly bumped corners and edges beginning to bubble.
New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1986. Bryan, Ashley. 1st Edition. 8Vo Hardcover. 87pp. Text is unmarked on bright pages. Grid cloth boards are clean with light corner bumps. Dust jacket is noticeably torn around edges; unclipped. Binding is tight and square. Author signed and inscribed title page.
Nairobi University Press, 1994. 1st. 8Vo Softcover. 102pp. Text is unmarked on white pages. Orange covers are glossy with lightly bumped corners and surface wear. Binding is stiff and square; hinges are fully attached. Spine remains uncreased but lightly rubbed on edges. Soiling on bottom of text-block.
Dodo Press. Paperback. 8vo. Complete 15-volume paperback set in very good+ condition. Each volume is firmly bound, uncreased and with glossy covers. Text unmarked. Wear is shown by lightly scuffed and occasionally discolored text blocks with remainder mark on the foot. Cover surface of a few volumes marked by minor.....
University of Wales Press, 1991. Paperback. 8vo. 138p. Pages unmarked, a few creased. Binding secure with slight slant. Wraps moderately shelf worn.
Federal-Alpha, 1975. Mei, Kwan Shan. 3rd printing. Oblong Hardcover. 8vo. 236pp. Text is unmarked on slightly patinated pages with beautiful color illustrations from Kwan Shan Mei throughout. Binding is square though crown of spine is heavily chipped. Illustrated covers are edge rubbed with mild foxing along the margins. Rear cover.....