New York Folklore Quarterly, 4 issues
Ithaca, New York: New York Folklore Society, 1945-46. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 6". Perfect bound with heavy paper covers. Four issues: May 1945, August 1945, November 1945, and Winter 1946. More
Mythology and Folklore
Aesop's Fables
Ithaca: 1950. Retold, Illustrated with Woodcuts, and Printed by Elfried Abbe. Tall 4to. 12-7/8" x 8-7/8". Marbled paper boards with black cloth spine and paper spine labels. 72 pp. including index. More
Myths and Legends of Russia
London: Folio Society, 2009. With 16 beautiful silhouette illustrations by Niroot Puttapipat. Thick 8vo. 480 pp. Red endpapers. Pictorial beige cloth stamped in gold, red and black. Red leather spine stamped in gold. In original slipcase. This collection was first published by Pantheon Books, Inc. in 1945 under the title..... More
Symbolism in Liturgical Art
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1959). First edition. 8vo. Red cloth stamped in gold. 120 pp. This practical handbook illustrates and explains the 134 symbols most commonly employed in Christian religious art and liturgical practice. Each drawing is based on a study of the many uses in art of the..... More
The Rabbit Catcher
New York: Macmillan Co., 1962. Illustrated by Ugo Fontana. Tall 4to. 13-5/16 x 9-3/4". Glossy pictorial boards. 34 pp. More
Fireside Book of Folk Songs
Simon and Schuster, n.d. (ca. 1950s). Illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen. Eighth printing. 4to. 11-1/4" x 8-3/8". Pictorial green cloth boards with beige cloth spine. Colorful pictorial endpapers. 323 pp. There is something about the haunting melodies and the simple but inimitable verses of peasants and spinners, of fishermen..... More
Lacandon Dream Symbolism, Dream Symbolism and Interpretation Among the Lacandon Maya of Chiapas, Mexico
Mexico: Ediciones Euroamericanas, Euram, (1979). Illustrated with many black and white photos and some. 9684140002. First edition. 8vo, 9-5/16" x 6-1/2" This study is a preparation to incorporate into scientific knowledge part of that unknown and mysterious land which now shows us only its highest peaks - Clairvoyance, Telepathy, E.S.P...... More
No Foot of Land: Folklore of American Methodist Itinerants
Metuchen, N. J. The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1975. 081080798x. The ATLA (American Theological Library Association) Monograph Series, No. 6. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-7/8". Green cloth stamped in white. 354 pp. "Theologians operating in isolation always risk religious sterility, confusing truth with its propositional forms. And, worse than lifelessnes, they risk..... More
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, (1973). 0691097437. Bollingen Series XVII, Third printing, 1973, of the Second 1968 Edition. For the second edition, minor corrections have been made and references to the Collected Works of C.G. Jung and the Standard edition of Sigmund Freud have been substituted wherever appropriate. Large 8vo..... More
Snorri Sturluson
Boston: Twayne Publishers, (1978). Stated First Printing. Small 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-3/4". Green cloth covered boards stamped in gold. 188 pp. including index. Snorri's literary reputation rests primarily on his historic chronicle, Heimskringla, "Sagas of the Norwegian Kings," and to a lesser extent on the charmingly told myths in his..... More
God's Voice in the Folklore, Nonsense Rhymes and Great Legends
St. Paul: Maacalester Park Publishing Co., (1956). Illustrated by Marcia Brown. 8vo. Sky Blue cloth covered boards stamped in dark blue. 213 pp. Just as great treasures of the Earth are secreted in the depths of the ground -- oil, coal, and gold -- so great treasures of Truth and..... More
Beauty and the Beast, A Fairy Tale
New York: Macmillan Co., 1963. Illustrated by Hilary Knight. Afterword by Jean Cocteau, Translated by Richard Howard. 4to. 13-1/4" x 9-7/8". Glossy pictorial boards. 35 pp. More
Christianity and Symbolism
St. James Place, London: Collins, 1955. 8vo. Black paper covered boards made to look like cloth. 320 pp. More
Peasant Customs and Savage Myths, Selections from the British Folklorists, 2 volumes
University of Chicago Press, (1968). Two 8vo. volumes, 9-1/4" x 6-1/4". Red cloth covered boards stamped in silver. 751 pp. in all including extensive index. This work presents a substantial sampling of the brilliant folklorists whose works deserve the attention of all students of the history of modern thought. Among..... More
Two Sticks: or The Lost Tribes of Israel Discovered. The Jew and the Israelite Not the Same.
Mount Morris, Ill: The Brethren's Publishing Company, 1887. First Edition. 8vo. Green cloth covered boards with gold stamped cover. 265 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher's ads. More
The Great Medieval Heretics, Five Centuries of Religious Dissent
New York: BlueBridge, (2008). 9781933346120. 8vo.9-1/4" x 6-1/4". Brown paper covered boards stamped in silver. 241 pp. This book is a riveting chronicle of the search for spiritual truth and purity, and a testimony to the power of faith in the face of suffering and persecution. From first to last..... More
Uncle Wiggily's Picture Book
New York: Platt & Munk Co., Inc., no date (ca. 1940). With Twelve Illustrations in Color and Thirty-three in Black and White by Lansing Campbell. Large Squarish 8vo. Pictorial orange printed endpapers. More
The Night Battles, Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (1983). 0801826055. First English edition. Large 8vo. 9-7/16" x 6-1/2". Green paper covered boards textured to look like buckram. Spine stamped in silver. 209 pp. including index. The Night Battles is a remarkable tale of witchcraft, folk culture, and persecution in early modern Europe. First..... More
Ethnology in Folklore
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1892. Small 8vo. 7-3/8" x 5-1/8". Green cloth covered boards, blindstamped. Spine stamped in gold. More
Astrology and Alchemy, Two Fossil Sciences
New York: Philosophical Library, (1953). 8vo. Sky blue cloth covered boards.382 pp. including index. From Astronomy and Astrology in Babylonia through the Cosmology of Ptolemy to Paracelsus, this is a penetrating history of these pre-modern sciences. More
Cry of the Ancients
Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, (1974). Illustrated by Daniel Nicholas. 0830901086. Second Printing. Small 8vo. 8" x 5-1/2". Brown cloth covered boards stamped in dark brown. 207 pp. Table of Contents: The Call; What is an Indian?: The Wampum; The Missing Wampum; A Search Begins; Legends and Traditions; The Chickasaw-Choctaw..... More
Mysterious Islands, Forgotten tales of the Great Lakes
Toronto: Lynx Images, (June 2001). Illustrated with many photos. 1894073118. Third printing. Perfect bound large 8vo. 294 pp. More
Astrological Keywords Compiled from Leading Authorities
Philadelphia: David McKay, (1931). Signed on free front endpaper: "Very Sincerely, Manley P. Hall." Third Edition Revised. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-9/16". Red cloth covered boards. 229 pp. including index. More
Horizon, Journal of the Philosophical Research Society, Spring 1947, Vol. 6, Number 4
Los Angeles: Horizon Publishing Co., 1947. First edition. 8vo. 9"x 6". Staple bound soft cover. Blue card stock covers textured to look like leather. Contains articles mostly written by Manly P. Hall: SYMBOLISM OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS - The World as the Image of the Self; THE ILLUMINATI; THE BOOK OF..... More
Horizon, Journal of the Philosophical Research Society, Summer 1947, Volume 7, No. 1
Los Angeles: Horizon Publishing Co., 1947. First edition. 8vo. 9" x 6". Staple bound softcover. Tan card stock cover textured to look like leather. 80 pp. Seven articles by Manly P. Hall: HORIZON LINES - The Hatfields and the McCoys. THE POWERS OF THE DIVINE MIND - An Outline of..... More