Legends/Myths/Folk Tales from 100 POCKETS

Roseville, CA: Stagecoach Publishing, 1999. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Stated First Edition & Author signed to first title page. Green softcover/Fine. Anthology of little known, true tales in California History. The first tells of California's (and the USA's) only emperor ... British-born Joshua Abraham Norton (-1880) who… Read more about this item

Roseville, CA: Stagecoach Publishing, 2000. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Green softcover/Fine. First published 1999; this is the 2nd Edition of 2000. Assembly of little known true events in California history. First entry tells of California's only emperor, British-born Joshua Abraham Norton (-1880) who proclaimed himself Norton I, Emperor of the United… Read more about this item

Foster City, CA: Goosebottom Books, 2014. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. Shirin Yim Bridges (Illustrator, Publisher). Text/NEW & Bright. First Edition, First Printing. Illustrated boards/Fine. DJ/None as Issued. Signed by illustrator Shirin Yim Bridges, founder of Goosebotton Books (publisher of this book). A Mayan legend re-told. Narrated in the first person by… Read more about this item

London, UK: Penguin, 1973. Penguin Paperback, 20th Printing . Paperback. Good/None as Issued. William Harvey (Wood Engravings). Text/As New showing trace discoloration to text edges & shelfwear. Softcover/Good; sound w/edge & surface wear & faint creasings to back. Folktales of Indian, Persian & Arab origins. First complied from a lost Persian book of fairy tales titled Hazar Afsanach… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1983. Revised Edition . Paperback/Volume I. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/VG; sound w/edge rubs & faint creasings to front/rear covers. PO name to font cover verso, and tidy remainder mark of to lower text block. First published 1955; this is the Revised Edition, Volume 1 of 2, carrying a Forward &… Read more about this item

HarperCollins, 1989. First Edition . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. David Wiesner (Illustrator). BRAND NEW Copy. First Edition. Softcover/Fine. Oral literature. Chinese-American. Fine, rich collection of 20 folk tales chosen from 69 stories collected in a 1930s WPA project. Oral literature is a dynamic genre enlivened by each re=telling. Strange tales of ghostly and superhuman animal beings long… Read more about this item

Boston, MA.: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin, 1999. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Anne Chalmers (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover/NF w/trace edgerubs. A superlative, modern archaeological adventure spearheaded in the 1980s by documentary filmmaker Nicholas Clapp. The search was for the ancient, golden laiden, sinful city of Ubar in… Read more about this item

Moscow, USSR: Progress Publishers, 1977. First Edition, 2nd Printing, 1977 . Soft Cover/Stapled. Very Good/None as Issued. T. Mavrina (Illustrator). Text/Near New & clean. Illustrated, stapled softcover/VG; sound w/rubs to all leading edges & light surface wear, and archival tape reinforcement to lower spine. A children's Russian fairytale published by Moscow-based Progress Publishers for the English-language market in… Read more about this item

New York. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First Edition. 6th Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Black linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/NF. DJ/None. Upper text block dyed yellow. PO name to front cover verso. This is Volume One only of Joseph in Egypt. Nobel winner of 1929, Thomas Mann 1875 - 1955) wrote … Read more about this item

New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams/Abradale Press, 1990. Reprint of 1990 . Hardcover. New/Fine. Kathleen Jo Ryan (Photographer). BRAND NEW Copy. White linen boards/Fine. DJ/Fine, A tribute to the spirit and physical beauty of Ireland, known as the Emerald Island. Located in the North Atlantic, it is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel,… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1983. First Edition, 7th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated softcover/NF w/faint creasing to lower front corner. English translation, with notes, by scholar Apostolos N. Athanassakis (1938 -), of works of early Greek poet Hesiod (c. 700 BC). 168 pgs in 4 parts: I, Hesiod;… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/faint creasing to upper front spine corner. First Edition, First Printing. A study of how humans of differing cultures, through arts, poetry, the physical body & psysche, have conmuned and lived with Nature --- a… Read more about this item

Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Co, 1924. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Frances Brundage (Illustrator). Text/New & Bright; unpaginated pages. Illustrated boards/Good w/marked edge & surface rubs, and, missing spine replaced w/white w/white tape. DJ/None. 1924, English translation of classic European fairy tales, first issued 1812 in German under the title Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children and… Read more about this item

Norman, OK: Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1972. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated red linen boards/Fine. DJ/None. PO name strike-out to front cover verso. A scholary, historical account of law and order on the American frontier. Contrary to the belief that frontier violence was in a unique class of its… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes, 1918. First Edition, First Thus . Hard Cover/Stitched. Near Fine/No Jacket. Paul Branson (Illustrator). Text/Bright, sound, and New New. Gilt embossed sienna boards w/colour pastedown/NF w/trace rubs to boards. DJ/None. Tissue covered frontispiece; illustrated endpapers. A collection of 35 Native American animal folklore. Wood-lore (or, the ways of wild things) are told… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: Univ of California Press, 1959. First Edition, 6th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Joseph Crivy (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/VG w/light edge rubs & faint creasings to front corners. Ethnologist Theodora Kroeber (1897 - 1979), wife of anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber (1876 - 1960) re-tells nine traditional tales of Nothern… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Liveright, 1970. Reprint . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. J.B. Platt (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/VG; strong & sound w/rrubs & wear to edges and surfaces; price strike-out to upper front corner. Trace soiling to text edges. Numeric numbers to fEP. Classic anthology of traditional American Indian songs and chants… Read more about this item

Alburquerque, NM: Univ of New Mexico, 1995. First Edition, 2nd Printing 1997 . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/New. Douglas Preston (Author- Maps/Drawings); Christine Preston (Photographer). BRAND NEW Copy. Travel narrative of a father, mother, and nine year old child. Travelogue tracing the 400-mile mythical route trod by the Navajo god Naayee neizghani, Slayer of the Aien Gods,… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Press, 1953. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEAR NEW & Bright, with some light pencilled (erasable) Chinese characters margins. Softcover/VG; strong w/trace soiling & lean to spine. Literary study of the evolution of novel Shui-hu-chuan (also, Water Margin, Men of the Marshes, and, All Men Are Brothers) ...… Read more about this item

Taipeh, Taiwan: Taiwan Commercial Press, 1970. Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW. Chinese language (traditional) text. Pink softcover/NF w/trace edge & surface wear. PO name to upper back. 8 selected popular, oral tales from the Sung and Yuan dynasties collection of "Ching-Pen T'ung-Shu Tales". Printed w/punctuation. 1, Jade Kuanyin (part I); 2, Jade Kuanyin part II); 3,… Read more about this item