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Browse  Folk Tales & Legends Books
D. D. R. Owen:  The Legend of Roland - A Pageant of The Middle Ages
Book Number: 772
Phaidon Press 1973 Excellent copy in d/w same.
Keywords: Song, stained-glass, Gothic, troubadour, lyric, Charlemagne, Ganelon, Saracens, Oliver, Medieval, poems, songs, France, Europe
Price: $25.00
Gladys-Marie Fry:  Night Riders - In Black Folk History
Book Number: 781
University of Tennesse Press 1985 Excellent copy in new condition with shelf worn d/w.
Keywords: America, slavery, black, superstition, antebellum, masters, evil spirits, Ku Klx Klan, rumour, Negroes, Southern States, race, conditions,
Price: $20.00
Lee, Jung Young::  The I Ching and Modern Man: Essays on the Metaphysical Implications of Change
Book Number: 1334
Secaucus, NJ: University Books, 1975. First, "will help one live a simple life in a complex society." Lee has much to say on Chinese Classic and its relevance., index
Keywords: Taoism & Chinese Philosophy Occult China I-Ching Psychology PHILOSOPHY RELIGION BUDDHISM PSYCHOLOGY MYTHS & LEGENDS
Price: $35.00
Liyi, He::  The Spring of Butterflies and other Chinese Folk Tales
Book Number: 2097
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, NY 1986. fine copy in d/w with tear at front, Translated by He Liyi. Edited by Neil Philip. Paintings by Pan Aiqing and Li Zhao. Stories not traditionally Chinese (zhuang, bai, tibetan, thai, uighur, kazak, tulong, Yi, naxi,) , translated into chinese and then into english. Illustrated, notes.
Keywords: folk tales, culture, customs, stories, tibet, thai, uighur, bai yunnan, legends,
Price: $30.00
Hyun, Peter, editor:  Korea's Favorite Tales And Lyrics
Book Number: 2538
Korea: Souel International Publishing, Hardbound, 1986, 4th. Printing Excellent copy in same d/w - unclipped. illustrated by Dong-il Park.
Keywords: Mythology, Folktales
Price: $32.00
Poignant, Roslyn::  Oceanic Mythology, The Myths of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia
Book Number: 2633
Paul Hamlyn, London, 1967  VG/VG, index. Full of photographic illustrations of tribal art objects from major collections.
Keywords: tribal, south pacific, art Ethnographic and Tribal Art;
Price: $35.00
SCHOENSTEIN, Ralph, ed.:  THE BOOZE BOOK: The Joy of Drink
Book Number: 3085
Chicago, Playboy Press, 1974 x, 246 pp, 7.5 x 10.25, or. brown cloth with gilt on spine and man on the front, 1st ed., b/w illustrations, VG+ in dj with edge chips and creases.
Keywords: stories, poems, ballads, reflections, epigrams, sketches, quizzes, cartoons, entertainments, paintings, and inspirations about the glory of the grape
Price: $35.00
Anne Cameron:  How the Loon lost her Voice
Book Number: 4015
Harbour Publishing 1985 Paperback, fair copy.
Keywords: Indian Myth, Raven Steals the Light
Price: $10.00
Davis, Hubert J.:  The Silver Bullet and Other American Witch Stories
Book Number: 5514
Middle Village, NY: Jonathan David Publishers 1975 First Edition 8vo 231pp VG+ original red cloth, gilt titles. Collection of oral folklore gathered in the Appalachian Mountains.
Keywords: craft, witches, spells and craft.
Price: $20.00
Jordan, Michael:  Cults - Prophecies, Practices & Personalities
Book Number: 6265
The Book Co, 1996 first australian edition. 4to. 128p. This book includes the cults of the ancients, radical religions, Satanic sects, leaders, prophets and gurus. Illustrated throughout with excellent in-text photographs. Black laminated boards in d/w with same picture. Illustrated end pages.
Keywords: ancients, radical religions, Satanic sects, leaders, prophets and gurus.
Price: $30.00

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