Myths, Legends & Fantasy from Capricorn Books

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1978. 178 pp, 7 3/4" H. B&w illustrations. Inscribed on half-title page: "Best wishes to Bruce - / Kay Hill / Apr 29/82". "Continuing the humour, excitement and charm which began with the stories in 'Glooscap and His Magic', this volume of Kay Hill's reworkings of Wabanaki Indian legends has achieved immense popularity among youngsters.… Read more about this item

British Columbia: TouchWood Editions, 2017. 367 pp, 8" H. B&w photographs, reproductions, maps. Inscribed by author on dedication page: "To R____ & B____ / Thank you for your / support! Hope you / enjoy these stories / from across Vancouver / Island! - Shanon", then signed again in full: "Shanon Sinn." "A compelling investigation into supernatural events and local… Read more about this item

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. 342 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w illustrations. "Many of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild creatures of field and forest, have remained the same since medieval times. But the words used to name and describe them have often changed beyond recognition, starting with the Old… Read more about this item

Great Britain: Collins, 1955. Unpaginated, 10 1/4" H. Charming colour and b&w illustrations throughout. "Christmas was approaching and all the Woodland Folk were busy with their preparations. Every creature in the whole wood seemed happy and excited - except one - and that one was Pookie, the little white rabbit with wings. In Pookie's little rabbit mind there was… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2009. 8 3/4" H, glazed pictorial boards. B&w illustrations. "Before King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table there was Finn MacCoul, Celtic hero and King of the Fianna. With his tooth of knowledge, his whislte called the 'Wooden Crier', his hammer, the 'Ord Fianna', and his famous sword, Mac an Luin, or 'White Sword of Light',… Read more about this item

Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, 1990. 559 pp, 9 1/4" H. "Once upon a time, there was a shammas full of years and stories. Night after night, like some kabbalistic Scheherazade, this amiable fellow tells stories to soothe his rabbi who cannot sleep. This is the premise of 'Night Tales Remembered', a wise, witty, and wonderfully rich platter of… Read more about this item

Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 2003. 368 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "(G)athers more than 130 Native American legends, many told to the authors by elder storytellers and tribal historians. The legends feature a broad array of mythical figures, such as Thunderbird, Coyote and Raven, as well as human like characters, 'The Girl Who Married the Moon', and 'Two… Read more about this item

Alcester, Warwickshire: Pook Press, 2015. 112 pp, 10" H. Colour and b&w illustrations by artists of the Golden Age of book illustration, including Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Walter Crane, W. Heath Robinson, Margaret Tarrant, Harry Clarke and others. "Contains seven different versions of the story of Bluebeard. It includes an in-depth introduction to the fairy tale genre itself, as… Read more about this item

Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1983. xxxix, 72 pp, 8 3/4" H. "One of the most significant nineteenth-century European books on religion, 'The Life of Jesus' (1836) gave shape to the modern discipline of historical Biblical criticism, decisively articulated the question of the viability of faith in a secular age, and profoundly influenced the lef-wing Hegelians and Karl Marx. Although… Read more about this item

London: Routledge, 2012. 265 pp, 8 1/2" H. "The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until the first publication of (this book in 1983), little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to… Read more about this item

Vancouver: Midtown Press, 2014. 136 pp, 8 1/2" H. B&w illustrations - photographs, drawings. "(P)ays tribute to Pauline Johnson's contribution to Vancouver's cultural heritage and her enduring legacy of sharing some of Canada's rich background of mythological stories. This collection of stories as told to Johnson by Squamish Chief Joe Capilano, represents one of her lasting achievements of cultural… Read more about this item

Asheville, North Carolina: Chiron, 2019. 210 pp, 8 1/2" H. "Skogemann goes through the whole of Tolkien's work - characters, landscapes, and events - to determine what kind of archetypes and basic situations from the collective unconscious are appearing. And she does it with enormous zest." Anne Knudsen, 'Weekendavisen'. Contents: Introduction; Faery or the Collective Unconscious; The Archetype of… Read more about this item

Toronto: Inner City Books, 2019. 128 pp, 8 5/8" H. One of the "Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts" series. "Marie-Louise von Franz devoted much of her life to the difficult task of interpreting fairy tales, bringing clarity and earthy good humor to the work. In this book she focuses on what we can learn from fairy tales… Read more about this item

London: Penguin, 1976. 311 pp, 7 3/4" H. "Drawing on myth, folklore and history, the stories of 'The Mabinogion' passed through generations of storytellers before they were written down in the thirteenth century in the form we now read them. Set in dual realms of the forests and valleys of Wales and of the shadowy otherworld, the tales are… Read more about this item

Point Reyes, California: Golden Sufi Center, 2018. 174 pp, 8 1/2" H. "(A) breathtaking account of our past and our future as human beings. Firmly and gracefully it traces the ancient threads that connect Mongolia, Tibet and Native Americans to the very origins of western civilization - showing how these sacred ties have shaped our lives today. This is… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt, 2018. 169 pp, 7 3/4" H. B&w illustrations. "Few forms of storytelling have greater power to captivate the human mind than fairy tales, but where do these tales originate from and what do they mean? Robert Bly has been asking these questions throughout his career. Here he looks at six tales that have stood the… Read more about this item

Toronto: Inner City Books, 1995. 160 pp, 8 5/8" H. One of the "Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts" series. ""Just as today's anthropologists seek to reconstruct the sensibility of pervious cultures, so future generations will seek to understand the kind of world we have made for ourselves. They will ask the same questions of us that… Read more about this item

Wreck Cove, Cape Breton Island: Breton Books, 1993. 249 pp, 9" H. B&w photographs. "These are the folk tales from Dr. Helen Creighton's life journey through the Maritime Provinces, collecting songs and ghost stories and old cures - and folk tales. Helen serves as our guide, introducing us to storytellers, setting the scene of the telling - and… Read more about this item

London: Blackie and Son, 1911. 344 pp, 10" H. Dark blue cloth (faded to a blue/gray on spine) with gilt lettering/decoration on spine and front board, all edges gilt. Pictorial endpapers, 12 colour plates (including frontispiece), 22 additional plates (16 black & red, 6 black & white) plus over 150 small b&w illustration throughout the text - all present.… Read more about this item

Clarkston, GA: White Wolf, 1996. 363 pp, 7" H (mass market paperback). "They were changelings, faerie spirits trapped in mortal flesh. They were six oathmates, sworn to each other and to the completion of a quest. Together they would search for four powerful faerie treasures that would open a lost gateway back to their timeless home, the land of the… Read more about this item