London: William Pickering, 1846. First edition in English. (iv), 197 pp. Late 19th Century three quarter leather over marbled paper, spine lettered in gilt. A Good or better copy with edges well-rubbed and cloth and leather mostly rubbed off or chipped there. Lacking front free endpaper. Last signature of pages..... More
New York: The Free Press, 1973. First edition, first printing. xiv, (ii) 314 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with white and gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with very light wear to covers, light soiling to rear joint, and faint scattered foxing to endpapers and upper textblock edge. Spine slightly..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1973. First American edition. 192 pp. with illustrations. Bound in navy cloth with silver spine lettering. Fine in dust jacket with a hint of toning, else Fine. An uncommon book about the search for a Loch Ness Monster-type cryptid in Scotland's Lake Morar. More
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911. First edition. lii, 172 pp. Bound in publisher's drab green binding beautifully decorated in black Art Nouveau motifs with illustrated paper panel at center, spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, and three color plates. Very Good+ with slight fading to spine and rubbing..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press / Bollingen Series, 1973. Later reprint. Signed by Joseph Campbell and inscribed to a former owner on the colophon page. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wraps. Very Good, light creasing and wear to covers, covers curled outward, light soiling to textblock edge. The author's best-known..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1953. Second printing of the first edition. Signed by Joseph Campbell on the front free endpaper and inscribed, "For Shirley-- Good wishes for the adventures ahead -- Joseph Campbell SLC 1960." xxiv, 416 pp. Bound in publisher's black and green cloth with gilt spine lettering; lacking..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1949. First edition, first printing of Joseph Campbell's classic work of comparative mythology. Bound in publisher's black and green cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxiii, 416 pp. Near Fine with slight slant to spine, light edgewear, small spot of soiling to front cover, and faint spotting..... More
New York: Pantheon Books Inc., 1949. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth over black spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with wear to extremities, bump to foot of spine. Contents tanned, foxing to textblock edge and endsheets, several hinges slightly exposed. In a Very Good unclipped dust..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by Joseph Campbell on the title page in sharpie, "For James Wagner with all good wishes Joseph Campbell 5/27/78." xx, 730pp. Bound in publisher's blue buckram stamped in purple and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with minor wear at..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974. First edition. Signed by Joseph Campbell on the half-title page. 552 pp. Bound in publisher's brick red buckram cloth with spine lettered in gilt and brown. Near Fine with a small rubber stamp to bottom textblock edge, offsetting to front endsheet from a formerly..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First edition. 155, [[7] pp. Bound in publisher's black and brown cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Very Good dust jacket, worn along edges, a little foxed, price-clipped. The world of Norse mythology brought to life by The D'Aulaires. A classic children's..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941. First edition. The Rawhide Edition, #263 of a limited 265 copies signed by Frank J. Dobie and Tom Lea, with an additional, very personal two page inscription by Dobie to a former owner, dated March 12, 1941. Dobie describes his pride in completing this..... More
London: Georgnes Newnes Ltd., 1920, 1921, 1923. The saga of mystery author Arthur Conan Doyle's involvement in the famous "fairy photographs," one of the greatest photographic hoaxes of all time, unfolds in three issues of the popular British magazine The Strand. Ironically, the creator of arch-logician Sherlock Holmes was publicly..... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1963. First American edition. xvi, 204 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with white and red lettering. Near Fine with former owner's name on front free endpaper in Very Good+ dust jacket, price-clipped, light rubbing. A nice copy. More
London: Macmillan and Company, 1890. First edition, first printing of Frazer's groundbreaking wide-ranging comparative study on mythology and religion. A presentation copy, signed and warmly inscribed to a former owner by James George Frazer on the first blank page of Volume I. Two volumes, bound in publisher's original green cloth..... More
London: John Stockdale, 1793. First Stockdale edition, first issue with the long "s" throughout, and list of subscribers. xi [1], 225; [2], vii, 187, [1] pp. Two engraved title-pages with vignette, "Gay Monument" frontispiece and 68 illustrations (including 12 etchings by William Blake). Later full calf polished with gilt borders..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1934. First edition. xii, 228 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth lettered in red. Very Good+, lettering at foot a little rubbed, slightly bumped corners, a little toning to back board, small bookplate on front free endpaper. Lacking jacket. The first investigation of Scotland's famous cryptid, the..... More
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[Printed by Harold Snelling], [c. 1920]. A complete collection of five photographs of the Cottingley Fairies taken by Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright between 1917 and 1920. One of the greatest photographic hoaxes of all time, perpetrated by two young cousins age 16 and 9. Armed with a camera, the..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1970. First edition. (Stated "First Edition" on copyright page with no later printings indicated.) Red cloth with black lettering. Very Good with tape ghosts to boards and endpapers, rubbing to edges, slight bowing to boards, contents clean and unmarked. In Very Good+ unclipped ($5.95) dust jacket with..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First edition, first printing. xiv, 497 pp. Bound in publisher's russet cloth stamped in gilt. Fine with bright gilt, tiny vintage bookseller's ticket to front free endpaper, in a Very Good example of the rare dust jacket, spine panel sunned, small tears, edge wear..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's russet cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with a deep scratch to topstain, former owner name to front free endpaper, tanning to pages with some corner-creases and uneven tanning to the bottom textblock edge. In a Very..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1999. First British edition of Heaney's translation, first printing. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page. xxx, 106 pp. Bound in publisher's paper-covered boards with spine lettering stamped in gilt. Fine and unread in Fine unclipped dust jacket. The Old English epic poem, translated and..... More
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1907. First thus. Number 18 of a limited 560 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. xix, [i], 549 pp with frontispiece and 23 colored plates mounted on dark green paper, 12 full-page illustrations tinted but not mounted and 66 in-text illustrations. Bound in publisher's full..... More
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1951. First American edition. (Published simultaneously with Canadian edition according to copyright page.)Signed by Marshall McLuhan on front free endpaper, inscribed "With cordial regards to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Williams from [signed] Marshall McLuhan." vii, 157 pp. Original black cloth lettered in silver. Very..... More
London: Methuen, 1912. First edition, first issue binding. Rear ads dated Autumn 1912. vi, [ii], 292, [30, ads], [1] pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth, blindstamped front, gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with slightly rubbed and sunend spine, old bookseller's ticket to front free endpaper. A very nice copy of..... More