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Children's Stories from Italian Fairy Tales
Price: £20.00 | |
Romano, Lilia E
Undated. Illustrated by Howard Davie, edited by E Vredenburg. Fine stories, beautiful b/w illustrations throughout the text and 12 full page coloured plates. Cover worn and marked, small erased pencil name to ffep, hinges weak, grubby marks to pages, frontis and all coloured plates present, some of the b/w illus to the pages describing other titles in the Raphael House library have been carefully coloured in (though none to the text of this book), pencil scribbles to rear end papers, good only. p134
Raphael Tuck & Sons
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Montaillou
Price: £5.00 | |
Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy
The world-famous portrait of life in a medieval village. Good - cover lightly marked and bumped, pages yellowed. p181
Penguin
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New Tales from Grimm
Price: £8.00 | |
Michaelis-Jena, Ruth and Ratcliff, Arthur trans.
Previously unpublished stories from the note-books of the Brothers Grimm. Grey cloth, green and gold title to the spine, endpapers decorated with 'The Land of Fairy Tale' map, some ink marks to list of contents, o/w VG p146
Treasure Hour Children's Books
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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
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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
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Tales from a Finnish Fireside
Price: £15.00 | |
Bowman, James Cloyd and Bianco, Margery
1st UK edition. Translated by Aili Kolehmainen, illustrated by Laura Bannon. Fairy tales, fables and drolls. Light wear to cover, generally VG in slightly creased and edge-worn but generally VG DJ, not price-clipped. p159
Chatto & Windus
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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
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The Franks
Price: £10.00 | |
Sergeant, Lewis
In 'The Story of the Nation' series, this is a fascinating study of the early, Roman and Medieval history of france. Decorated cover a little marked, spine creased, feps a little marked and damaged, a few grubby marks to pages, but generally VG, tight, sound and bright. p343
t. Fisher Unwin
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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
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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
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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
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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
Netherlands Open Air Museum
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