Search Results: Folklore and Mythology from Old Saratoga Books

Hancock, MI: The Book Concern. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket toned and soiled.. 1952. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Brown illustrated cloth binding. Illustrations by the author. Tales and folklore of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 238 pages .

NY: The Macmillan Company. Fair with no dust jacket; Frontispiece plate loose, one black and white . plate colored in by previous owner, boards worn and shaken, owner name on . front free endpaper.. 1926. Hardcover. Brick red decorative cloth. 8 color plates and many other illustrations by Willy Pogany adorn this retelling of the ancient Greek myths. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket worn.. 1947. Hardcover. Alphabetical list of fables at rear. Illustrated gray cloth. Color plates and smaller black and white drawings throughout by Kredel. ; Illustrated Junior Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 234 pages .

Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed.. 1959. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0226158586 . Index. One of the volumes in the Chicago History of American Civilization series edited by Daniel J. Boorstin. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 328 pages .

NY: Orchard Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket scuffed.. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0531054624 . Signed by McCully on the title page. Three Italian folk tales from the Tuscan region. Illustrated by Caldecott medalist Emily Arnold McCully. Cloth-backed boards. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 67 pages .

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards worn, front cover illustration scratched, . shaken, usual library stamps and markings, some finger soiling.. 1936. Later Printing. Hardcover. Black cloth binding with Parrish illustration mounted on front boards. 9 full-page, gloriously luminous illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, plus decorative endpapers. Top edges gilt. A handsome edition of this classic collection of tales from the Golden Age of Illustration. The stories included in this book are: The Talking Bird, The Singing Tree, and the Golden Water; The Story of the Fisherman and the Genie; The History of the Young King of the Black Isles; The Story of Gulnare of the Sea; The Story of Aladdin; The Story of Prince Agib; The Story of the City of Brass; The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; The History of Codadad and his Brothers; and The Story of Sinbad the Voyager. ; Ex-Library; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 340 pages .

NY: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670851582 . Recounts the Greek myth of Theseus and Ariadne with color illustrations by Barry Moser. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 74 pages .

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards and jacket rubbed, remainder mark on page bottoms.. 1992. First Printing. Hardcover. 0152060529 . Wood engravings by Barry Moser. Cloth-backed boards. Signed by Moser on the title page. A gorgeous collaboration by the late Newbery Award winner and Moser, retelling this classic French fairy tale and setting it in a Victorian American setting. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 68 pages .

NY: Greenwillow Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed and price-clipped.. 1985. Hardcover. 0688058159 . Library reinforced cloth binding but not an ex-library copy. A retelling of an Inuit legend. Wood engravings by the author. Pictorial boards. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 40 pages .

NY: Parents' Magazine. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, owner name on front free . endpaper.. 1974. Later Printing. Hardcover. A collection of 31 classic fairy tales culled by the editor, who served as Coordinator of Children's Services for the New York Public Library. Various illustrators. Pictorial boards. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 259 pages .

Little Rock, AR: August House LittleFolk. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0874834627 . Glossy illustrated boards. Dramatic illustrations by Susan Greenstein adorn Heather Forest's retelling of a Yiddish folk tale about a man who learns a lesson about living in his small house with his family. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Philadelphia: David McKay. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and worn.. N.D.. Later Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth with color illustration on front boards. Circa 1950s reprint of this collection of fairy tales from a variety of cultural traditions. Four color plates by Frank Godwin. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket faintly rubbed.. 1977. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Blue decorated cloth. Illustrated endpapers and colored woodcuts throughout. The Caldecott medalist retells and illustrates an ancient Indian tale from the Panchatantra. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: The Macmillan Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and lightly soiled.. 1964. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Introduction by Simone de Beauvoir. White glossy color illustrated boards. Contains vividly illustrated versions of Diamonds and Toads, Puss in Poots, Cinderella, and Bluebeard. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 38 pages .

Toronto: Ryerson Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered and rubbed.. 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. x, 297pp. Bibliography, index. Navy cloth binding. Nova Scotia folkore including such subjects as the supernatural, witchcraft, treasure, Micmac people, fairies, dreams, supersititions, divination, home remedies, weather, crops, and animals. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards and pages toned.. 1940. Later Printing. Hardcover. Tan cloth binding. Map endpapers. Illustrations. A collection of New York State folklore, ballads, and history. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 530 pages .

NY: Ariel Books. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Edges rubbed, bookplate on front free . endpaper, jacket toned and foxed with chips and pieces missing.. 1951. 1st US printing. Hardcover. Brown cloth. viii, 207pp. Twelve popular Irish folk stories and fairy tales of magic, heroic deeds, humor and poetic imagination. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Cambridge/Watertown: Apple-Wood Books. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered and tape-repaired at edges.. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0918222370 . Bibliography, many illustrations and photos. Historical survey of gryphons throughout various cultures and media. Black cloth binding. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 111 pages .

NY: Oxford University Press. Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly soiled and price-clipped, . gift inscription on front free endpaper, foxing to endpapers and boards.. 1965. Hardcover. Green illustrated cloth. Glossary, index of first words. Delightful line illustrations by Norah Montgomerie and T. Ritchie. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 158 pages .

Camden and New York: Thomas Nelson Inc.. Good in Very Good dust jacket; One page underlined (The Dapplegrim) , . jacket lightly worn and soiled.. 1971. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0840760086 . viii, 244pp. A collection of tales and poems about a variety of magical beasts, from krakens to magic swans to the Horny-Goloch by many contributors. Illustrations by Raymond Briggs. Green boards with color jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .