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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 about Exhibition of Rumanian Tapestry

Cat.No: 229693

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History of Raper commandery No.1 Knights templar Indianapolis. Commemorating the seventy-fifth year of its charter in Indianapolis October 16, 1850

Indianapolis: the Templar Masons, 1925. 216p., coated paperstock throughout; 10x7 inch printed cardstock wraps are detached, re-attachable; yapp (overlapping) edges are worn and a little torn with a tiny chip, very serviceable copy but as is. Many many period mugshots. Not the (or one of the) notorious Templar tendencies. More about History of Raper commandery No.1 Knights templar Indianapolis. Commemorating the seventy-fifth...

Cat.No: 160750

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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 about International, Interdisciplinary Conference on World Traditions of Puppetry and performing...

Cat.No: 132503

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Late Imperial culture edited by Roman de la Campa, E. Ann Kaplan, Michael Sprinker

London: Verso, 1995. vii, 226p., first wraps issue, trade-size softbound. Endsheet bears a datestamp, otherwise faint sings of handling, a very good copy. "Bram Stoker's sexual ethnology and the question of Irish nationalism," for starters. But it's more than just lit crit, another essay recounts how remote Brazilian tribes are... More about Late Imperial culture edited by Roman de la Campa, E. Ann Kaplan, Michael Sprinker

Cat.No: 86050

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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 about North Carolina Folklore Journal; vol. 27, numbers 1, 2 and 3 May, November and December1979

Cat.No: 133027

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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 about North Carolina Folklore Journal; vol. 28, numbers 1 and 2, May and November 1980

Cat.No: 133025

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Proverbs of Arabia

Girard: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1924. 32p., staplebound 3.5 x 5 inch orange wraps, mildly aged, faintest signs of handling. Little blue book no. 121. More about Proverbs of Arabia

Cat.No: 78241

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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 about Proverbs of Japan

Cat.No: 71116

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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 about Romania si America: Interferente Culturale in Perspectiva. Simpozion care a avut loc la...

Cat.No: 198815

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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 about Yartútan 'ammayta / Turathuna al-sha`bi. Volume 1, no. 2

Cat.No: 226393

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Half-a-Ball-of-Kenki; An Ashanti Tale Retold by Verna Aardema and with Pictures by Diane Stanley Zuromskis

New York: Frederick Warne, 1979. Hardcover. Unpaginated, about 30p., sewn text printed in color throughout and hardbound in oblong 8x9 inch boards in color dust jacket. The slightly edgeworn jacket shows freckles of foxing on the verso (only), clean and sound, a very good copy. More about Half-a-Ball-of-Kenki; An Ashanti Tale Retold by Verna Aardema and with Pictures by Diane Stanley...

Cat.No: 188270

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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 about Ananse and the king's cow

Cat.No: 173286

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What's going on? (in Modern Texas folklore)

Austin: The Encino Press, 1976. xi, 309p., preface, illustrated with photos, mild foxing otherwise very good first edition stated in cloth and gilt, worn and price-clipped dj. More about What's going on? (in Modern Texas folklore)

Cat.No: 149013

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