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Chivalry

Price:  £8.50

Foss, Michael
Lavishly illustrated, this is a study of the chivalric myth. VG in VG, slightly edge-worn, DJ p251
Michael Joseph

Delphi and the Sacred Way

Price:  £7.50

Lewis, Neville
A history and guide book. Cover just a little edge-worn, generally VG p200
Michael Haag

Destination Viking Sagalands - the Icelandic Sagas and oral tradition in the Nordic world

Price:  £10.00

Cooper, David, Gudmundsson, Rognvaldur, Muir Tom eds
A guidebook to the eight regions linked by the Icelandic Sagas - Greenland, Iceland, Faroes, Norway, Sweden, Scotland, the Isle of Man and Canada - focussing on the events and places mentioned in the Sagas and on contemporary storytelling. VG. p192
Sagalands

Fables de La Fontaine

Price:  £30.00

de La Fontaine, Jean
Undated. With an introduction by C.-A. Sainte-Beuve, engravings by T. Johannot. Text in French. Bound in red leather a little marked and sunned, with a school crest (The Grange, Folkstone) to the front board, raised bands to the spine with gold decorative compartments, spine edges strengthened with japanese paper, gold decorative band to board edges, marbled end-papers, marbling to edge of page-block, neat ink inscription to prelims, some age-mottling to tissue guarded frontis, pages yellowed, tissue-guarded engravings all present, clean, tight and sound, a handsome book. p393
Ancienne Librairie Furne, Combet et Cie

Fables de La Fontaine

Price:  £30.00

Walckenaer, M ed.
An attractive early edition of the classic collection of rhymed fables, text in French. Black leather decorated with gold a little worn and marked, wear to spine top, marbled edges to page block, prize label dated 1845 to front paste-down, decorative endpapers just starting to weaken in the front gutter, some age-mottling throughout, tight and sound, good. p496
Chez Lefevre

Folk Costume of Southern Europe

Price:  £6.50

Fox, Lila M.
Well illustrated, there is a wealth of detail. Good , ex-lib but new endpapers. DJ fair - chipped, sun faded, large chip to inner fold, edge-worn. p64
Chatto and Windus

Folklore of an Island - Maltese Threshold Customs

Price:  £10.00

Zarb, Tarcisio
Custom and belief relating to birth, puberty, marriage, and death in the Maltese islands, from interviews with the elderly, reproduced verbatim with facing Maltese/English text. Illustrated with old photographs. A Maltese bookmark is loosely laid in. VG. p360
PEG Ltd

From Servitude to Freedom - Manumission in the Senonais in the 13th Century

Price:  £15.00

Jordan, William Chester
The causes and consequences of the freeing of serfs in medieval France VG in VG DJ p149
University of Pennsylvania Press

Greek Myths - illustrated edition

Price:  £5.50

Graves, Robert
The condensed, illustrated version, concentrating on the stories, and lavishly illustrated. VG in VG DJ p256
BCA

Greeks Bearing Gifts

Price:  £10.00

Evslin, Bernard
Illustrated by Lucy Martin Bitzer VG in edge-worn, neatly mended, marked DJ, not price-clipped. p324
Four Winds Press

Heloise and Abelard

Price:  £9.00

Pernoud, Regine
Translated by Peter Wiles. A scholarly study of the mediaeval love story. VG in VG but price-clipped DJ p256
Collins

Look At Castles

Price:  £5.50

Duggan, Alfred
A children's tour of Britain's castles, much enlivened by Raymond Brigg's drawings. Ex-lib, missing ffep, small piece torn from half title, white tippex mark to half title, generally VG, in edge-worn but generally VG DJ p96
Hamish Hamilton

Olaf and Uaine

Price:  £8.50

Boulton, Harold
A story in verse; a loose insert (typed) 'with Sir Harold Boulton's compliments'. Green cloth, silver lettering, some age mottling, generally VG p20
Geoffrey Bles

Prehistoric Farming in Europe

Price:  £15.00

Barker, Graeme
In the series New Studies in Archaeology. Regional studies tracing the development of European farming. Cover lightly sunned, generally VG. p325
Cambridge Univ Press

Svenska Landsmal och Svenskt Folkliv

Price:  £5.00

journal
Swedish folklore review; in Swedish. Cover a little worn, some pages uncut, good. p274
P A Norstedt & Soner

The Finest Legends of the Rhine

Price:  £6.00

Rulend, Wilhelm
An undated collection of stories set on the Rhine, in a rather chuncky translation, but a pretty little book. VG in worn and marked but generally good DJ p125
Hoursch & Bechsedt

The Legend of Ulysses

Price:  £12.00

Brown, Roy F. illus. Mario Logli and Gabrielle Santini
A faithful retelling of the Odyssey, illustrated in full colour, with map endpapers. In the series Adventures from History. VG, cover slightly faded, in edge-worn but generally sound, price-clipped, DJ p80
Paul Hamlyn

The Lusiads

Price:  £5.00

Camoens, Luis Vaz de
The national epic of Portugal, translated by William C Atkinson. Good - cover marked and worn, pages yellowed. p249
Penguin Classics

The Riddle and the Knight - In Search of Sir John Mandeville

Price:  £5.00

Milton, Giles
Travels in the steps of the mediaeval fabulist. VG p228
Hodder & Stoughton

The Shadow of the Hawk

Price:  £6.00

Reeves, James
Stories from the Lay of Marie de France ( a collection of French narrative poems from the latter end of the 12th century) made available for children. VG, attractive bookplate to ffep, in slightly edge-worn, price-clipped, generally VG DJ p153
Collins

Wooden Shoes - their makers and their wearers

Price:  £12.00

Noorlander, H
A monograph on the traditional clog, including instructions for its construction. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Slight wear and marks to cover, generally VG p76
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