Search Results: FOLKLORE from Seneca Valley Used Books & Paper Collectibles

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. NF/NONE. 1996. no edition/printing given. Hardcover. 1884822843 . Near fine condition with almost no usage showing. Dark green covers with crisp gold lettering. Text is clean/tight excwpt for a few pages in the rear that have small neat corner folds. Remainder mark on outside bottom edge of text. Will look up particular poet and poem title as there are too many to list here. No dust jacket. Books alone weighs over 3 pounds therefore special handling may be required. Gift quality condition. Free gift wrapping, card and domestic drop shipping for almost any occasion. Let us know the occasion and message. ; Remainder; 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 x 2+; 704 pages .

Dover. 1967. Softcover. 486204111 . Plus catalog advertising other Dover books.8vo. Nice yellow covers with orange illustration of a Gentleman Jim type fighting a horned and tailed upright creature. Spine is sun faded. Inked ownership of Beatrice Bruner from ithaca, New York. Nice illustrated map of New York State showing the locations of some of the tales/legends/ballads. Drawn by Margaret Van Doran. Interesting tales. 25-52.; 8vo; 530+ pages .

Alfred A. Knopf. P/NONE. 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Poor selling in AS IS condition. Illustrated green front cover/rear cover are stained frm probably getting wet and moldy. Green spine cover is missing. Outside edges of covers are worn open. Hinges are weak allowing text to wobble however nothing is falling apart. Front/rear endpapers have age browning. Inked ownership on inside front cover. Text is still quite clean and has some minor age browning. No refund on this item as it is described correctly. Free gift wrapping, card and domestic drop shipping for almost any occasion. Let us know the occasion and message. ; 8 1/2 x 9 1/2; 118 pages .

Advance Publishers. VG+/NONE. 2000. no edition/printing given. Hardcover. 1579730906 . In very good condition with only light usage showing. Text is clean/tight except for some light page crinkling probably due to book getting damp in the past. This offer is also available to our international customers as long as the s/h to the drop ship address is the same as yours. You are welcome to email for more information. ; Lessons from Hundred - Acre - Wood Series; Vol. 4; 9 1/8 x 9 oblong; Unpaginated pages .

Americana Corp. VG+/NONE. 1969. International Edition. Hardcover. Very good plus condition with only light usage showing. Dark green covers/gold lettering. Text is clean/tight. Vol 15 from Indian (American) to Jeffers. Due to size and weight special handling may be required. Gift quality condition. Free gift wrapping, card and drop shipping. Let us know the occasion and message. ; Vol. 15; B&W Photographs; 7 1/2 x 10 1/4; 862 pages .

Putnam's Sons. VG/VG-. 1981. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 0399126104 . Very good condition with only light usage showing. Tiny bit of wear at spine ends. Text is clean/tight with b/w and color illustrations throughout. DJ matches illustrated front cover. DJ has some normal edge wear/nicks. Top of DJ spine has a recently repaired one inch tear with a tiny bit of edge missing. Free gift wrapping, card and drop shipping. Let us know the occasion and message. ; The Leprechaun Library; 43/4x61/4; 56 pages .

Time-Life. 1985. Hardcover; 1st Printing. 0809452375 . Vg++/none. Blue cloth boards. Ornate gold details/lettering. Large paper pasteup on front showing giant by a town. Very minor fading along spine/board edges. Beautiful illustrations. Contents are Princes of the Cosmos, Heirs of the First World, Protectors and Providers, Tests of the Green Knight, A Deepening Enmity, Kilhwch and Olwen, Twilight of Power, Earth's Memory. ; The Enchanted World Series; 9x121/4; 142 pages; TKK. .

Abrams Rufus.. F+/F+. Hardcover. 0810909553 . FWine plus condition with only minor usage showing. With 171 illustrations including 141 in full color. Fairytale and folklore giants throughout the ages. Inside cover pages has black/white illustrations of giants. White covers/ gold lettering on spine. DJ is price clipped . Very minor creases. Inked gift inscritpion on front page. Free gift wrapping, card and drop shipping. Let us know the occasion and message. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 191 pages .

Troll Associates. F. 1981. 1st Edition Thus. Softcover; 7th Printing. 0893754714 . In fine condition with only minor usage showing. There is some minor residue from price sticker at top outside corner of front cover. Gift quality condition. If a photo is showing with this description it is not from us. If you would like a photo, please request one. Need to send a gift? We offer free domestic drop delivery, free gift wrapping and card for almost any occasion. Just let us know the occasion and your message. ; 7 1/8 x 9 .

Heath & Co.. NF. 1994. 2nd Edition. Softcover; 3rd Printing. 0669329738 . Near fine condition with almost no usage showing. Rear cover and a few rear pages have a small diagonal corner crease at top outside right. Text is clean/tight. Over 200 authors mentioned including Anonymous/Unknown. Categories include late 19th century 1865-1910 the development of women's narratives, regional and national voices including African-American Folktales, issues and visions in post-Civil War America including Native American, new explorations of an "American" self, modern period 1910-1945 toward the Modern Age, alienation and literary experimentation. A sheaf of political poetry in the Modern Period. The new Negro Renaissance, , issues and visionsin Modern America. Contemporary Period 1945 to the Present (1994) literature of the Cold War orthodoxy and resistance, new communities, new identities and new energies, postmodernity and difference, promises and threats. Will look up iparticular… Read More

Holt. G+/G+. 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover; 1st Printing. 0805003835 . 0805003835. Blue/blk boards/gld lettering. REAR BOARD LOWER CORNER NIBBLED BY MOUSE otherwise hardly any usage showing. Text is quite clean/tight/ DJ has matching nibble/some edge wear/handling showing. ; Large 8vo; 224 pages .

M. A. Donohue & Company. P/NONE. 1902. no edition/printing given. Poor condition. Selling book AS IS. Boards are together but separated from text. Paper over cardboard boards that are all edge worn open and damaged. Burgandy cloth spine. About 3/4 inch thick. Color illustration of boy, girl and kitty edged in gold on front. This is still pretty good. Red lettering on front. Text is together. Title page has large piece missing at lower right corner. Some pencil scribbling throughout slong with some foxing. Still does not take away from the sweet stories inside like My Friend's Dog Nic; Feeding The Baby, etc. Will look up a particular story for you. ; 71/2 x91/2. Binding is Hardcover. ; Mammoth Book Series .

Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Fair/NONE. 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair condition SELLING AS IS. Usual library/discard markings showing. Text is still quite clean/tight. Yellow covers with b/w illustration of a fox and a dog on front. Also on front cover is a 1 x 3 inc blue stain at top right outside corner. Open wear at cover spine ends and cover corners. Looks like it was a popular children's library book considering usage showing. There are 27 tales from the US such as Peter Went Fishing On Sunday; 19 from Europe such as The Boy Who Outfibbed A Princess; 17 from Asia such as The Little Bird Who Found A Pea; 6 from Africa such as How A Boy Got A Baboon. Will look up title. Free gift wrapping, card and drop shipping. Let us know the occasion and message. ; Ex-Library; Large 8vo 9" - 10" ; 160 pages .

Artists & Writers Guild Books/Golden Books. NF/NONE. 1994. no edition/printing given. Hardcover. 030717509x . Near fine in almost as new condition. Text is clean/tight. Pale stamped ownership on front endpapers. No DJ issued. Full size fold out pages make book more interesting for kids. Story of a' princess who has trouble getting to sleep until some clanking knights, snoring dragons, eerie ghosts and forest creatures come to her aid'. Free gift wrapping, card and drop shipping. Let us know the occasion and message. ; 9x93/8; Unpaginated pages .

Glencoe Press. VG+. 1976. 1st Edition. Softcover; 5th Printing. Very good plus condition with only light usage showing. Text is clean/tight with brown covers. No spine crease. Teeny weenie surface damage spot on front cover which also has an easy crease. Contents include myths of early America such as were the Puritans Puritaniccal and myths that hide the American Indian, glorius and terrible myths of the Civil War and Reconstructionism, the American cowboy, progressivism and the 1920's, mythology of Roosevelt and the New Deal, myths about Middle America, etc. Gift quality condition. Free gift wrapping, card and domestic drop shipping for most occasions. Let us know the occasion and message. ; 6 5/8/ x 9 3/4; 430 pages .

Scholastic Inc.. G+/NONE. 2004. 5th Edition?. Thick cardboard cover; 2nd Printing. 0760760098 . Good plus condition with light usage showing. Covers and pages are thick cardboard. Some open wear at spine ends from shelf sliding. Text is clean/tight. Free gift wrapping, card and drop shipping. Let us know the occasion and message. ; 7x7; Unpaginated pages .

VG+. 1969. Booklet. In very good plus condition with green covers asuperstitionnd a stapled spine. Front cover has black drawings of a mountain cabin, pine trees and corral fencing. Back cover has dedicated areas for From and To with a place for stamps. The green color on th back cover has faded to tan. Some superstitions included are weather signs, garden crops and signs, weddings, for housewives and children, etc. Gift quality condition. If a photo is showing with this description it is not from us. If you would like a photo, please request one. Need to send a gift? We offer free domestic drop delivery, free gift wrapping and card for almost any occasion. Just let us know the occasion and your message. ; 6 x 9; 24 pages .

Aurand Press. F+. N.D.. Booklet. Fine plus condition with almost no usage showing. Orange covers with black lettering and illustrations. Chapter titles are childhood and its demands on man, folk medicine and old superstitions, have good luck-avoid bad luck, form habits in dressing and sewing, weather forecasting is importand, we examine special days and seasons, laws for the farmer and woodsman, musts in cooking baking and planting, care of the teeth known to ancients, moon lore familiar to all people, dreams and what they mean to us, witches and our own superstitions, ideas for getting a future husband, marriage lore and natural trends, sex lore and pre natal influences, death and how to circumvent it, omens about death and funerals, moving or flittin day. ; 51/2x81/2; 32 pages .

Book House for Children. VG/NONE. 1926. no edition/printing given. Hardcover. Glorious Joyous and Heroic Adventures of Ty Ulenspiegel, Bim Bam Beggs, St Nicholas, Hansy Knipperdollety, I Crossed the River Maas Laridaas, Narr-a-Narr-a-Nart, Narre Narre Narre, Zacharius and His Sister, Jakie Stand Still, Amsterdam That Great Big City, Amsterdam Die Groote Stad, Mother May I Go Out, Black Wilhelmine, Lady Will You Forbid Your Little Boy, Dutch Puppet Show, The Stork, Little Little Laddykin, Capture of Breda, and much more. In very good condition with considering age. Red covers with 12 sided color illustration paper paste-up on front. Faded black lettering on front cover and spine. Page opposite title page has a 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 black. White paper paste-up book ownership showing a young girl on a sofa reading a book. Inked ownership on top of Judith Gaile Jays or Jaye. Front and rear hinges are cracked but does not affect text (although it is a bit shaky) which is still quite tight and clean.… Read More

Allyn & Bacon. Fair/NONE. 1961. no edition/printing given. Hardcover. Vol. 3 only. No dust jacket. Rated fair only because of water and old mold stains throughout otherwise book and text are still tight. Scent of mold is barely there. So pages are lightly crinkled. This is an ex-school library book with normal discard/markings. Covers have a slight bow on long side edges. Front cover shows a Pied Piper character playing a flute type instrument. He is in color but the children following are black illustrations. Book is divided into 2 parts. Part I contains songs from the following themes - Under Western Skies, America's First Music, On The Musical Road To Storyland, With My Friends In Orchestraville, When All Nature Sings, Magic Of Faraway Places. Part 2 contains the following themes - Let's Make More Music, Festival Of The Seasons. Lots of sweet color illustrations popular in the late 1950's and 1960's. Music is for the piano with suggestions for accompanyments such as… Read More