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A Short History of Culture from Prehistory to the Renascence

Price:  £10.00

Lindsay, Jack
Archaeology, myth, ritual, poetry, literature and the arts, from the Old Stone Age to 1600 VG in edge-worn DJ p439
Studio

A World of Folk Tales

Price:  £8.00

Stewart, Sue ed.
The folk tradition of a multi-cultural Scotland. VG p110
Scottish Cultural Press

Fables for Little People

Price:  £5.00

Webb, Anne
Cover a little worn and marked, illustrative end-papers, small scribble to index, slight grubby marks to pages, no DJ, good. p45
Young World

Greek and Roman Religion

Price:  £5.00

Ferguson, John
Reprint. The Open University's Arts/Social Sciences course, second level - Man's Religious Quest - Units 14-15. Cover a little marked and worn, very occasional annotation, good. p79
The Open University Press

In Defence of Magic - the meaning and use of symbol and rite

Price:  £8.00

Smith, Catharine Cook
A study of the world-wide use of symbol and rite as a form of education of the emotions Red cloth, spine a little faded, no inscriptions, pages yellowed, VG p159
Rider & Co

Psyche's Task

Price:  £10.00

Frazer, J G
'A discourse concerning the influence of superstition on the growth of institutions' - on government, private property, marriage and respect for human life. Cover worn, marked and sunned, contemporary bookplate to front paste-down, slight grubby marks to eps, o/w VG p84
Macmillan

Secular Alternatives to Religion

Price:  £5.00

Brown, Stuart
Reprint. The Open University's Arts/Social Sciences course, second level - Man's Religious Quest - Units 22-23. Cover a little worn and marked, slight annotation, good. p82
The Open University Press

Sikhism: the Voice of the Guru

Price:  £5.00

Thomas, Terry
Reprint. The Open University's Arts/Social Sciences course, second level - Man's Religious Quest - Units 12-13. Covers worn, very occasional annotation, good. p95
The Open University Press

Spanning East and West

Price:  £8.00

Hinnells, John R
The Open University's Arts/Social Sciences course, second level - Man's Religious Quest - Units 16, 27 and 28 -The Zoroastrian Quest, Zoroastrians and the West, Parsi Zoroastrians. Cover a little marked and worn, some annotation, good. p
The Open University Press

The Christian Way

Price:  £5.00

Clark, Francis
Reprint. The Open University's Arts/Social Sciences course, second level - Man's Religious Quest - Units 18-19. Covers slightly marked and worn, occasional anntation, good. p70
The Open University Press

The Conquest of Illusion

Price:  £50.00

van der Leeuw, J J
Theosophical philosophy. Blue cloth cover just a little sunned at edges, initials to title page, slight age mottling, generally VG in edge-worn, marked, sunned, but generally sound DJ. p234
Alfred A Knopf

The Faber Book of Golden Fairy Tales

Price:  £10.00

Corrin, Sara and Stephen eds.
Twenty-six stories with a common theme, mainly from literary sources, in translation, or retold by the editors, and by Manning-Sanders, Mehdevi, Waddell, Grimm etc VG in slightly edge-worn DJ that has a small mended tear, generally VG p202
Faber and Faber

The Great Deeds of Superheroes

Price:  £7.00

Saxby, Maurice and Ingpen, Robert
The heroic tradition in the ancient world - Perseus, Heracles, Theseus, Jason, Odysseus, Gilgamesh, Sigurd, Vainamoinen, Moses, Samson, Beowulf, Arthur, Cuchulain, Roland, El Cid VG in VG DJ p184
Paper Tiger

The Gypsies

Price:  £9.00

Yoors, Jan
Travelling with Gypsies in Europe between the wars. Ex-lib, tight and sound, good, no DJ. p256
George Allen & Unwin

The Hamish Hamilton Book of Wise Animals

Price:  £6.00

Dillon, Ellis ed.
Animal stories from various authors, illustrated by Krystyna Turska. VG, some age-mottling to prelims, in slightly edge-worn, price-clipped, but generally VG DJ. p191
Hamish Hamilton

The Magical History of the Horse

Price:  £8.00

Farrar, Janet and Russell, Virginia
Reprint. The horse in myth and folklore. VG p201
Capall Bann

The Noble Path of Hinduism

Price:  £5.00

Masson, Joseph
Reprint. The Open University's Arts/Social Sciences course, second level - Man's Religious Quest - Units 9-11. Covers worn, very occasional annotation, good. p115
Open University Press

The Religion of the Jews

Price:  £5.00

Goldstein, David
Reprint. The Open University's Arts/Social Sciences course, second level - Man's Religious Quest - Units 16-17. Covers worn, occasional annotation, good p73
The Open University Press

The Religions of the Oppressed - a study of modern messianic cults

Price:  £5.00

Lanternari, Vittorio
Translated by Lisa Sergio. The interplay between religion and revolution - the Ghost Dance, the Peyote religion, Cargo cults, Mau Mau - prophetic religions of liberation from Africa, the Americas and the Pacific. Name to ffep, pages a little yellowed, generally VG p286
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