A book of songs for merry melody-makers
Stockholm: Tidens, [1950s]. 74 p., pocket sized wraps in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 121315
Folklore
Dai 8-kai Nihon dento kogei ten [8th exhibition of Japanese traditional handicrafts]
Tokyo: Nihon Dento Kogeikai, 1961. [32p], wraps, Japanese text; with 10-page English catalog tipped in. B&W photos of items from the exhibition held at Mitsukoshi Department Store. English version not found in OCLC. More
Cat.No: 142370
Exhibition of Rumanian Tapestry
Bucharest: Arta Grafica, 1965. Paperback. Unpaginated, about fifty pages of color and b&w exhibit photography, with captioned reproductions recto-only, facing blank versos. Softbound in 7.5-inch-square color wraps. Fore margins affected by stain or age (front cover) and a heavy crease (back cover), otherwise good copy. More
Cat.No: 229693
Gjurmime Albanologjike: Viti XXXVI, 2006: Folklor dhe etnologji
Pristina, Kosovo: Instituti Albanologjik i Prishtines, 2007. 453p., wraps, very good condition. Text mostly in Albanian with brief summaries of articles in English. Albanian journal of ethnology and folklore. More
Cat.No: 250444
International, Interdisciplinary Conference on World Traditions of Puppetry and performing objects; June 13 and 14, 1980, Carmichael Auditorium, National Museum of History and Technology, Washington, D. C. (program)
Austin & Washington: Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, University of Texas at Austin and The Smithsonian, 1980. 23p., 8.5x11 inches, schedule, statements by presenters and puppeteers, photos, very good in original stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 132503
Marriage in Papua New Guinea
Port Moresby: Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea; Administrative College of Papua New Guinea, 1986. xi, 223 pages, paperback, trace of old price label on front cover, upper right corner bumped. Research Monograph no. 4. More
Cat.No: 238684
North Carolina Folklore Journal; vol. 27, numbers 1, 2 and 3 May, November and December1979
Boone: North Carolina Folklore Society, 1980. Three volumes [112p], 6x9 inches, photos, illustrations, plans, very good in original stapled pictorial wraps. The Society usually published only twice a year, May and November, but occasionally put out a special issue, usually in December but sometimes in summer. More
Cat.No: 133027
North Carolina Folklore Journal; vol. 28, numbers 1 and 2, May and November 1980
Boone: North Carolina Folklore Society, 1980. Two volumes [92p.], 6x9 inches, photos, illustrations, plans, music transcriptions, very good in original stapled pictorial wraps. The Society usually published only twice a year, May and November, but occasionally put out a special issue, usually in December but sometimes in summer. More
Cat.No: 133025
North Carolina folklore journal; volume 23, no. 2 May 1975
Boone: North Carolina Folklore Society, 1975. pp34-64., 6x9 inches, illustrations, very good in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 149286
North Carolina folklore journal; volume 23, no. 3 August 1975
Boone: North Carolina Folklore Society, 1975. pp66-96., 6x9 inches, illustrations, very good in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 149287
North Carolina folklore journal; volume 23, no. 4 November 1975
Boone: North Carolina Folklore Society, 1975. pp97-128., 6x9 inches, illustrations, very good in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 149288
North Carolina folklore journal; volume 25, no. 2, Nov. 1977
Boone: North Carolina Folklore Society, 1977. pp46-88., 6x9 inches, illustrations, photos, very good in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 149284
North Carolina folklore journal; volume 26, no. 1, May 1978; folklore in the schools
Boone: North Carolina Folklore Society, 1978. 48p., 6x9 inches, illustrations, photos, very good in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 149282
North Carolina folklore journal; volume 26, no. 3, Nov. 1978
Boone: North Carolina Folklore Society, 1978. pp146-180., 6x9 inches, illustrations, photos, very good in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 149283
Poesías folklóricas y patrióticas: diez corridos de la revolución
México: Editores Mexicanos Unidos, 1971. 158 p., edgeworn floral pictorial wraps, paper toned. More
Cat.No: 172632
Proverbs of Japan
Girard: Haldeman-Julius Company, no date. 59p., v (ads), 5 x 3.5 inch staplebound (two staples!) blue wraps faded to sand-color, mild external wear, and inside someone has lightly pencil-ticked favorites. Little blue book no. 115. More
Cat.No: 71116
Romania si America: Interferente Culturale in Perspectiva. Simpozion care a avut loc la Biblioteca Americana Bucuresti, Romania; 16, 17, 18 mai 1979
Bucurest: La Biblioteca Americana, 1979. Paperback. 209p., reproduced from keyboard-set text; softbound, 9x6.5 inch wraps with a binder's-tape spine as issued. One small corner of the binderstape has lifted up, edges are a little worn, a very good clean copy. First text is by Robert Coover, who appears to have..... More
Cat.No: 198815
Saturday night and Sunday morning; a national black heritage tour of blues, gospel, buckdancing and storytelling
Washington: National Council for the Traditional Arts, 1986. [16]p., 8.5x11 inch program, photos in text (some historical, some of the performers), very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 125847
Tian di ren, No. 14 (Nov. 1. 1952)
Kowloon: Mei ri za zhi she, 1952. 30 pages, one issue of the staplebound magazine, very good with pages mildly toned. The magazine is about folklore, social and artistical events, short stories, etc. Though published in Kowloon, it was meant to spread across the diaspora. There are Chinese American business..... More
Cat.No: 247849
Yartútan 'ammayta / Turathuna al-sha`bi. Volume 1, no. 2
Duhok, Iraq: Dar-almashreq for Culture, 2010. 137p., glossy 11.5x8 inch colorphoto wraps, rejected as a surplus duplicate from the LOC, with a stamp on the English title page, otherwise evry good. Single issue of the biannual magazine on Syriac folklore. Text mostly in Arabic. More
Cat.No: 226393
Ananse and the king's cow
Glendale: BOWMAR, 1975. 29p., 6x9 inches, illustrations, very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Best in Children's Literature, Series IV. Story from Aardema's book "Tales from the Third Ear." More
Cat.No: 173286
What's going on? (in Modern Texas folklore)
Austin: The Encino Press, 1976. Hardcover. xi, 309p., preface, illustrated with photos, unobtrusive foxing otherwise very good casebound first edition stated in cloth boards and gilt; dust jacket is present but is very edgeworn (texts and author portraits remain legible and clear). More
Cat.No: 149013
Deep down in the jungle ... Negro narrative folklore from the streets of Philadelphia
Hatboro, PA: Folklore Associates, 1964. Hardcover. 287p., first edition, very good condition in a lightly worn dj. More
Cat.No: 62488
Bhutan kingdom in the Himalaya
London: Tiger Books International, 1999. Hardcover. 96p., 12.5x9.3 inch hardcover, coated paperstock, profuse color portrait and site photography amidst the text, first edition laminated pictorial boards in same-image dust jacket. Clean and sound, a fine copy. More
Cat.No: 177217
Ceylon Vagabond
Colombo: K. V. G. de Silva and Sons, 1969. Paperback. viii+194p., photographic and other illustrations, color-photo wraps in a ditto color-photo dust jacket. The dj is frayed at top, endsheets foxed, otherwise very good. "A curious interlacing of folklore, legend, history, botany, strange customs and habits, Buddhist philosophy and primitive..... More
Cat.No: 149696