Pjesme o Muji Hrnjici
Sarajevo: Mesihat Islamske zajednice Bosne i Hercegovine, 1990. Paperback. 200p., wraps, small closed tear on front blank, else very good condition. Text in Croatian. Bosnian folk poetry and ballads. More
Cat.No: 228200
Folklore
The folk art of Uthong, Sukhothai and Bangkok [cover title: Thai Folk Art]
Bangkok: Silpakorn University, 1966. 11, 37, viii, 29, [61] pages of black and white plates; wraps discolored along spine, interior clean. Text in Thai and English, much discussion of early statuary. More
Cat.No: 139240
Mally's Cotswold Morris Book, Volume Two. A collection of Cotswold Morris tunes suitable for all instruments with chord symbols for Melodeon, Accordion & Guitar.
Checkheaton W.Yorkshire: Dave Mallinson Music, 1988. Paperback. 32p., musical notation and lyrics throughout, softbound in 12x8 inch decorated wraps, staple-fastened. Covers faintly dusty with a few flecks and faint stains, sound copy otherwise clean and entirely unmarked: very good. More
Cat.No: 293090
Las comunidades alteñas
Mexico City: Instituto Indigenista Interamericano, 1967. Paperback. ix, 148p., text in Spanish, illustrated with b&w photos at rear, good first edition paperback in lightly-worn wraps (but there is an inconspicuous vertical crease to front cover) Antropología Social #5. More
Cat.No: 203681
Kunjur Tales and Oddments
Nashville, TN: W. R. Manlove, 1930. 79p., wraps, 5.5x7.75 inches, illus., cover somewhat soiled, some wear and fading to edges. Poems and tales written in "negro dialect" by a white man, ostensibly learned from his "old black mammy" while growing up on a plantation. Author is listed as Principal of..... More
Cat.No: 158704
Treasury of Stories
Manila: Anvil Publishing, Inc., 1995. Paperback. 239p., paperback, 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated profusely with drawing. Light shelfwear to wraps, ownership mark on fore-edge of text block, else very good. More
Cat.No: 286020
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! New Mexican folk carvings from the collection of Christine and Davis Mather, October 17 - December 21, 1986
Corpus Christi: Art Museum of South Texas, 1986. 36p., 8x8 inches, illustrated exhibition catalog, personal inscription signed by Davis Mather, very good in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 61298
Pedro Henríquez Ureña y su aporte al folklore Latinoamericano
Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 1981. Paperback. 181p., frontis-portrait of Ureña, poetry excerpts, song excerpts, musical notations, text in Spanish, notes, index, very good first edition trade paperback in rubbed pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 205933
Folk Origins of Indian Art
New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Hardcover. 245p., cloth-covered boards, 11.25x8.75 inches landscape format, profusely illus., very good condition in a price-clipped and lightly edgeworn dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 296988
Dell Turner: The Stories of His Life
Orono, ME: University of Maine, 1988. Paperback. 128p., wraps, very good condition. Northeast Folklore XXVII. Biography/oral history of the author's grandfather, who worked in Maine lumber camps as a teenager. More
Cat.No: 129912
De la vida y del folclore de la frontera
Tucson: Mexican American Studies & Research Center, University of Arizona, 1986. Paperback. 116p., text in Spanish, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 112231
"Best of all possible friends"; Three decades of correspondence between the Folklorists Alan Dundes and Wolfgang Mieder
Burlington, Vermont: "Proverbium" in cooperation with the Department of German and Russian, 2006. Paperback. 313p., b&w pictorial wraps, in very good condition. Proverbium, Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, Volume 19. More
Cat.No: 276692
Geschichte der ukrainischen Kultur
Munchen: Isar Verlag, 1957. 285p., publisher's ads, first edition openweave brown cloth boards in dj, titled and with device in silver-foil. Jacket is a little worn; former owner has written a presentation inscription in Russian datelined 1958, a very good copy. Veroffentlichungen des Osteuropa-Institutes Munchen, Herausgeber: Hans Koch, Band XII..... More
Cat.No: 165353
The American Quarterly on the Soviet Union; Vol. 2, No. 1, April 1939
New York: American Russian Institute, 1939. Paperback. 79p, advertisements, paperback journal, 5.5x8.5 inches; minor soiling & toning of cover, else in good condition. Folk tales, blood transfusions in the USSR, Soviet National Defense program, more. More
Cat.No: 293688
The folk arts of Japan
Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1959. Hardcover. 168p. hardcover in decorated cloth; dust jacket has a hole on the spine with abrasion to the cloth beneath. A decent reading copy of this beautifully designed book. Third printing. More
Cat.No: 263985
Mingei: folk arts of old Japan
New York: The Asia Society, distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1965. 143p., b&w illustrations, tipped-on color plates; first edition decorated paper over boards in plain glacine wrap, faintest edgewear. More
Cat.No: 69296
Dan Emmett and the rise of early Negro minstrelsy
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. Paperback. xiv, 496p., wraps slightly worn, spine and edges faded, hole punched in front wrap, previous owner's name else good condition, illus., second printing. More
Cat.No: 63178
Music of the Hebrew People; Israeli and Jewish Songs - for solo Alto Recorder with guitar chords. Arranged by Harold Newman; Singable English Version by Grace West.
New York: Hargail Music Press, 1960. Sheet_music. 20p., lyrics and musical notation on every page, not every song Englished, softbound as a large pamphlet in 12x9 inch decorated wraps. A bit dim with age & handling, entry for "Kuma Echa" has a little pencilling, expect some edgewear, staples have a...... More
Cat.No: 293104
Studime Per Folkorin 1
Prishtine: Instituti Albanologjik i Prishtine, 2006. Paperback. 327p., wraps, signed and inscribed by author, very good condition. Text in Albanian. The first volume of a 2 volume set. More
Cat.No: 228218
Vertellingen voor het volk
Gorinchem: P.M. Wink, 1903. 157p., hardcover, small numbered label on spine, ex-libris bookplate with a "Loyal to the Union" design. Collection of fables, presented by the first Dutch socialist parliamentarian, who had embraced anarchism by this time. More
Cat.No: 257077
Big Jabe; illustrations by Kadir Nelson
New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 2000. [32]p. children's book, profusely illus. with Nelson's color drawings of slave life on a southern plantation, 9x11 inches, first printing, dj slightly chipped at head of spine. More
Cat.No: 84271
Folklore of the Atayal of Formosa and the Mountain Tribes of Luzon
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950. Staplebound. iv, 44p., staplebound wraps, 6x9 inches. Illustrated with fold-out map. Wraps sunned, staples lightly rusted, minor foxing to top edge of text block, else very good. Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 5. More
Cat.No: 288636
Folklore of the Atayal of Fromosa and the Mountain Tribes of Luzon
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950. Staplebound. iv, 44p., staplebound wraps, 6x9 inches. Illustrated with fold-out map. Spine sunned, else very good. Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 5. More
Cat.No: 287615
The way of the south; toward the regional balance of America
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. Hardcover. vi, 350p., first edition. Somewhat worn. no dj. More
Cat.No: 69155
Answered prayers; miracles and milagros along the border
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995. Paperback. xxvi, 239p., illustrated with b&w photos, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 128006