Search Results: FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY from Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux [0-374-10085-3] 1976, 3rd printing. (Hardcover) 364pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. The dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly faded on the spine. Based on the work of Thomas Malory. Edited by Chase Horton. Main character: King Arthur. (Mythology).

London: MacMillan and Co 1922, 3rd edition, revised and enlarged. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 321pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on the cover. Lightly edgeworn. "In ancient Egypt the god whose death and resurrection were annually celebrated with alternate sorrow and joy was Osiris, the most popular of all Egyptian deities; and tehre are good grounds for classing him in one of his aspects with Adonis and Attis as a personification of the great yearly vicissitudes of nature, especially of the corn" - from Chapter 1, the Myth of Osiris. Part of the larger work: The Golden Bough; A Study in Magic and Religion--Part IV, Vol II. Book about Osiris. (Mythology, Ancient Egypt, Divinity, Eastern Religions, Gods--Egyptian, Mysteries, Mythology, Occult, Religion, Ritual).

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company [1970]. (4to) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 67, [10] pp. White cloth with an illustration stamped on the front cover. Black and white and color photographs, index. The dust jacket is lightly worn at the top and bottom of the spine. Based on the work of Homer. Introduction by Karl Kerenyi. Main character: Ulysses. (Mythology, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Photography, Sculpture).

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1964, 3rd printing. (Small 4to) 95pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrations. The dust jacket is price-clipped. Selected with introduction by John J. McKendry. (Folklore, Fables--Aesop).

New York: Pantheon [1953], 2nd printing. (4to) 355pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor edgewear to dust jacket photographs, map, index. Bottom corners bumped, small stain on fore-edge, and the dust jacket is lightly edgeworn. Locale:. (Mythology, Folklore, Sculpture).

Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center [0-88977-016-6] 1980. (Trade paperback) Very good. 101pp. Illustrations, bibliography. The spine is faded. Publisher series: Occasional Paper 2. Locale: ; Prairie Provinces; Regina--Saskatchewan; Western Canada. (Folklore, Folklore, Jump Rope Rhymes, Music, Singing Games).

Toronto: B. Mitchell [1-85170-021-8] [1986]. (Hardcover) Very good plus in near fine dust jacket. 454pp. 32 color illustrations, glossary and index. Locale: China. (Folklore, Folklore, Legends).

Bury St. Edmunds--England: Sidgwick & Jackson [0-283-99705-2] 1985. (Oblong 4to hardcover) 160pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Black and white and color photographs. "Hubert Lampo, one of the most distinguished authors in Europe, has written a marvellously readable and compelling book on the eternally fascinating subject of King Arthur". Introduction by Colin Wilson. (Folklore, Arthurian, Folklore, Mythology).

Totowa: Littlefield Adams & Company [0-8226-0600-3] [1979]. (Small 4to) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 224pp. Illustrated endpapers, frontispiece, illustrations, color plates, bibliography. Some wear to bottom of dust jacket spine. Locale:. (Folklore, Arthurian Romances, Folklore, Legends).

Wellingborough: Aquarian Press [1988]. (Hardcover) 351pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrations, bibliography. Book about King Arthur. (Mythology, Legends, Scholarship).

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press [0-8032-5079-7] [no date]. (Trade paperback) 310pp. Very good. Notes, musical notation, diagrams, index. Lightly soiled on the edges and there is a previous owner's name on the inside front cover. "First published in 1892, Blackfoot Lodge Tales is based on George Bird Grinnell's extensive personal knowledge of the three tribes of the Blackfoot nation. Grinnell, an ethnologist, writer, editor, explorer, creator of Glacier National Park and protector of Yellowstone National Park, had great compassion for and understanding of Indians at a time when most men of the frontier were both uninterested in an unable to record the Indians' oral literature". Book about Blackfoot Indians. (Folklore, Folk Tales, Folklore, Indigenous Peoples--United States, Legends, Oral Tradition).

Philadelphia: Courage Books [1990]. (Hardcover) 288pp. Very good to fine in very good to fine dust jacket. Index of names. Contributors include Michael Grant, Charles Grosvenor Osgood. Locale: ; Ancient Rome. (Mythology, Mythology).

New York: Gramercy Books [0-517-27415-9] 1979. (Hardcover) 957pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrations, maps, charts, dictionary, index. Illustrated edition. Includes The Age of Chivalry, The Age of Fable & Legends of Charlemagne. (Mythology, Folklore, Legends).

Detroit: Duo-Art Press [1953], 1st an unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 5000. (stiff paper covers) Near fine. 17pp. Cover silk-screen and Illustrations by the author. Staple-bound. "A True Account of the Daze of Ol' Paul & Babe, His Big Blue Ox.". Book about Paul Bunyan. Locale: Bemidji--Minnesota; United States. (Folklore, Folk Tales).

Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons 1927. (Hardcover) xii, 354pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Gilt decorated red cloth. Frontispiece, illustrations. There is minor wear at the top and bottom of the spine and a previous owner's name on the front endpaper. Originally published as The New World Fairy Book. Illustrations by H.R. Millar. (Folklore, Fairy Tales, Indians of North America, Juvenile Literature).

New York: Philosophical Library [1958]. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 102pp. Photographs. Locale: United States. (Folklore, Catholic Church, Dictionary, Holidays, Jews, Protestant Church).

Ottawa: National Museum of Canada 1960, 2nd edition. (Trade paperback) 111pp. Very good. Illustrations, map, frontispiece. Bulletin no. 141. Illustrations by Winnifred K. Bentley. Foreword by F.J. Alcock. Series: Anthropological Series 39. (Mythology, Fables, Indians of North America, Mythology).

Woodbridge: Boydell Press [0-85115-780-7] 2000. (Trade paperback) Near fine. 336pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Time Period Medieval. Translated by Tanis Guest. Locale:. (Mythology, Dictionaries, History--Medieval, Legends, Literature, Mythology).

London: Guild Publishing 1985. (Hardcover) 226pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Photographs, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Book about King Arthur. Locale: England; France. (Mythology, Kings, Knights of the Round Table, Legends).

Winnipeg: Hyperion [0-920534-14-7] 1981. (4to) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 204pp. Decorated enpapers, photo, color plate, glossary, bibliography, index. The dust jacket has edgewear and chipping. Includes Louisa Loeb (Florence Randal Livesay). Illustrations by Stefan Czernecki. Translated by Florence Randal Livesay. Locale: Ukraine. (Folklore, Fables, Folklore).