Myths & fables
Lady-unique-inclination-of-the-night: cycle 6, Autumn 1983
Austin: Lady- Unique, 1983. Magazine. 141p., illustrated with old cuts and line drawn psychedelica; 8.5x6.5 inch journal wraps, lightly handling wear and soiling, a few small splash stains on front wrap. The front wrap was decorated with a stapled-on image; this is missing from this copy, leaving two small staple..... More
Cat.No: 114657
Cherokee legends and the Trail of tears,; from the nineteenth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; cover design and illustrations by Amanda Crowe
Knoxville: S. B. Newman Printing Co, 1956. 32p., wraps, illustrated by humorous line drawings colored-in; light external soiling. More
Cat.No: 49504
The museum journal vol. IX no. 1, March 1918. Published quarterly by the university museum
Philadelphia: the quarterly, 1918. 88p., coated paperstock throughout, b&w exhibit photos and sketches with two in color (Maya vase, Huron moccasin), 10x6.7 inch journal wraps. Ex library from a private library with minimal marks, snag at the head of the spine, good copy. Find Mayan art, Trail of the golden..... More
Cat.No: 167938
Mitos de creacion de la cuenca del Orinoco.
Caracas, Venezuela: Consejo Nacional de la Cultura; Fundacion de Etnomusicologia y Folklore; Centre Interamericano de Etnomusicologia y Folklore del Programa Regional de Desarrollo Cultural de la Organizacion de los Estados Americanos, 1993. Paperback. 79, [1]pp., illustrations, wraps. 8.25 x 11 in. Crease along fore-edge of front cover; otherwise Very Good..... More
Cat.No: 304804
Possessing the Secret of Joy
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. Hardcover. x, 286p., very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 10027
Contributions to Southeast Asian Ethnography: Rice in Southeast Asian Myth and Ritual; Number 10, January 1994
Columbus, OH: Contributions to Southeast Asian Ethnography, The Ohio State University, 1994. Paperback. 218p., paperback, 6x9 inches, very good. Illustrated with maps and b&w photographs. More
Cat.No: 286233
Drowning Narcissus
New Orleans: Queer Mojo; Rebel Satori Press, 2016. 185p., very good. "Jacob Connor has led a charmed life. He was saved from sexual slavery by Zeus, and was once the beloved of Orpheus. So much contact with the uncanny has left him split, though; one half weak, a perpetual victim..... More
Cat.No: 238463
Myths and Legends of China
New York: Arno Press, 1976. Hardcover. 453p., cloth-covered boards, very good condition. No dj. First published in 1922. More
Cat.No: 274324
Scoutlagen; Loftet och Valspraket. Illustrerad av Ingrid Malmestrom-Jovinger
Stockholm: C.E. Fritzes Bokforlags Aktiebolag, 1935. Hardcover. 78p., illustrated with 7 color plates on inserted stock, plus scattered b&w sketches in-text, first edition hardbound in 7.5x5 inch green cloth boards titled gilt. Entirely in the Swedish language. Cover titling is rubbed and dim, but legible, there is a mild crack..... More
Cat.No: 259267
Kubrick's 2001 - A Triple Allegory
Lanham MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2000. Hardcover. vi, 181p., 9x5.5 inch black cloth boards gilt, a fine clean copy enclosed in the glossy decorated dust jacket, dj bears faint hints of handling such as a touch of edgewear and an inconspicuous adhesion remnant to rear dj panel. Sound, clean..... More
Cat.No: 319629
Mr. Chambers and Persephone: a tale; printed, with wood-engravings by Dorothea Braby
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. Hardcover. 62p., frontis, four illustrations, bookplate removal residue on front pastedown endpaper, good first unlimited edition in yellow cloth boards with gilt spine titles and top edge gilt. Romantic erotic fantasy based upon the legend of Persephone. Gorgeous erotic wood-engraved images. More
Cat.No: 280188
No Boundary; Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth
Boston: Shambhala, 1985. ix, 160p., index, glossy trade-size wraps; a fine clean copy. More
Cat.No: 176731
Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Purānic. Second edition
London: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1901. Hardcover. xviii, 499 pages, hardcover, rather shelfworn with a bumped corner; bookplate of Robert Henry Hobart Cust. More
Cat.No: 302808
Fire & the Feminine: Myths Animated in Clay. Introduction by Suzanne Wolfe; Forward by Les Manning
El Cerrito CA: Apple Blossom, Inc. Publisher, 2014. Paperback. 148p., profuse color exhibit photos, mostly of Witten's figurines but there are other subjects as well, softbound first edition in 8.5-inch-square colorphoto wraps. Inside front cover Witten has inscribed "to a partner in clay" her gratitude, signing as "Carol". Nice copy..... More
Cat.No: 309924
Six guns and society; a structural study of the western
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. Hardcover. 217p., cloth boards in dust jacket; abrasion on dust jacket spine, mild wear and rubbing on dust jacket, else very good. More
Cat.No: 45767
Monkey. A Selection of Incidents from a 16th Century Chinese Novel by Wu Ch'eng-en. Illustrations by Eleanor Hazard. A Star & Elephant Book from The Green Tiger Press
La Jolla CA: The Green Tiger Press, 1979. Hardcover. Unpaginated folio in 14.5x11.5 inch papered boards fastened Chinese-style with thick decorative blue cord. Presswork uses a large font on thick alkaline paperstock, a nice production but one's attention is drawn more to the color illustrations, which are fullpage, very bright..... More
Cat.No: 307309