SCARTHIN BOOKS

5606 Medieval Folklore : A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs - Carl Lindahl, John McNamara, John Lindow
Price : £40.00 Publisher : Oxford Published : 2002 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Fine Jacket : J
pp470. Large 8vo. Buckram and paper covered boards. Illustrated DW.
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7243 The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures Complete 3-volume Set - Carrasco, David (Editor)
Price : £140.00 Publisher : Oxford Univ Press Published : 2001 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : As New
A mint set of the three volumes in decoratively coloured cloth bindings; no jackets, as issued. A heavy set that would cost more than the normal postage charge overseas from UK.
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5572 The Handbook of Folk-Lore: The Folk-Lore Society Publication LXXIII: New Edition, Revised and Enlarged - Charlotte Sophia Burne
Price : £16.00 Publisher : London: Sidgwick and Jackson Published : 1914 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
pp364. Brown cloth cover with gilt decoration to front and gilt lettering to spine. Cover has fadeding about corners, and is bumped at corners and ends of spine. Hinges cracked across endpapers. PO name signed and dated July 1914 on first title page (which bears date of 1913); 1914 appears on main title page.
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1124 The Agricultural Community in South-West Wales at the turn of the Twentieth Century - David Jenkins
Price : £35.00 Publisher : University of Wales Press Published : 1971 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good Jacket : J
pp291. Brown cloth binding with silver lettering to spine. DW worn on edges, and green colour faded.
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3223 More Legends of Northern Ghana - Donald St. John-Parsons
Price : £5.00 Publisher : Longmans Published : 1960 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Soft Condition : Very Good
pp69. A English-language practice book for young students. Includes map, exercises, word lists. Signed by the author.
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3440 Gli sviluppi della colonizzazione demografica intensiva in Libia - Enrico Bartolozzi
Price : £15.00 Publisher : Firenze: Istituto agricolo coloniale italiano Published : 1939 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Soft Condition : Very Good
pp11. Card covered pamphlet. PO inscription top right corner front cover. Italian language. Part of our set of fascist colonial literature - check our stocks.
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5479 The Red, Brown and Black Men of Australia And Their White Supplanters [Also Africa bound-in] - G T Bettany MA
Price : £30.00 Publisher : London: Ward Lock Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
One volume paginated as two: pp289 (America and Australia) & 221 (Africa). 8vo. Pictorial cover in red and brown. Many line drawn illustrations. Tables. Maps. Inscription on FEP dated January 1918.
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2828 Breton Folk: An Artistic Tour in Brittany - Henry Blackburn (Illus R Caldecott)
Price : £45.00 Publisher : London: Sampson Low Published : 1883 Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
pp200. Approx 8" x 10". 170 illustrations. Frontispiece is protected by tissue sheet. Green cloth binding,with title impressed in brown lettering (gold on spine) and author's names in black. Nice copy of a book recording three year's visits to an area then hardly known (most Bretons did not speak French until WW1 and after, for instance).
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2834 Children of Rhodesia - Herbert J Baker (poem by K Dorothy Baker
Price : £20.00 Publisher : London: Epworth Press Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
pp137. Green cloth binding with black lettering. Sepia frontispiece. Some age staining. An account of Rhodesia based on the experience of Christian educationalist missionaries. (Pre-WW1?). Not only mentions history (eg city of Zimbabwe, Biblical gold mines) but contemporary problems (church moved because of gold workings, continuing problems of belief in witchcraft), and reliance on women's field labour.
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5129 The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England; including Rivers, Lakes, Fountains, and Springs; Copiously illustrated by curious original woodcuts - Hope, Robert Charles
Price : £80.00 Publisher : London: Elliot Stock Published : 1893 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Good
pp222. Octavo. Green cloth quarter bound with contrasting spine. Gilt lettering to spine. PO name written on reverse of FEP with date 1893, and same name inscribed on title page. Irregularly cut pages. BW illustrations. Condition is G-VG.
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7839 Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology : Humanity Culture and Social Life - Ingold, Tim (Editor)
Price : £22.00 Publisher : Routledge Published : 1999 Binding : Soft Condition : Very Good Jacket : No Jacket
Large paperback book in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. 1127 pages. Heavy book which will incur extra overseas postage; please enquire for rates.
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3491 Hollandsch sagenboek : legenden en sagen uit Noord- en Zuid-Holland - J. R. W. Sinninghe
Price : £10.00 Publisher : 's-Gravenhage: A Storm van Leeuwen Published : 1943 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
pp364. Outsize. Brown cloth binding, with cream spine - a mermaid on front and spine, as well as lettering. Bumping/wear to corners. Pages browning, but surprisingly good condition for a wartime production. Dutch text. (Famously, Germans could not pronounce 's-Gravenhage, leading the Dutch Resistance to use the name of the town as their password or shibboleth).
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4126 Tribe and State: Essays in Honour of David Montgomery Hart - Joffe, E. G. H. and C. R. Pennell
Price : £25.00 Publisher : Middle East and North African Studies Press Published : 1991 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Fine Jacket : J
pp342. Black cloth binding. DW VG.
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4228 Islenzkar Thjoth Sogur og Aevintyri: Ny Utgafa - Jon Arnason (Arni Bothvarsson og Bjarni Vilhjalmsson)
Price : £30.00 Publisher : Reykjavik: Prentsmithjan Holar Published : 1954 Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
pp700. Quarter leather bound, with marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. A new edition of Arnason's 1862 original with facsimiles of some pages of manuscript.
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3954 The Gypsy and the Bear and other tales translated from the Polish - Lucia Merecka Borski and Kate B Miller (Illus James Reid, Fwd: Eric P Kelly)
Price : £30.00 Publisher : London: Longmans Green Published : 1933 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
pp129. Blue cloth binding with black lettering and illustration. Spine and edges yellowing (may reflect standing next to smaller volumes). Illustrated endpapers. PO inscription second endpaper. BW frontispiece and illustrations throughout.
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6761 The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia - Malinowski, Bronislaw (Preface, Havelock Ellis)
Price : £22.00 Publisher : London: George Routledge Published : 1932 Edition : 3rd Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
ppL, 506, map, BW plates. V. large octavo. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Edges and ends of spine worn. PO name inscribed and erased FEP. This is the third edition with special foreword, 2nd impression. It is also one of the most important works of anthropology ever published.
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4091 English Bells and Bell Lore : A Book on Bells - North, Thomas (William Beresford Ed.)
Price : £175.00 Publisher : Leek: Moorland Press Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
pp206. Quarto. Brown cloth binding, brown endpapers. Gold lettering on spine is fading. FEP has small tears and hinges between cover and fep are badly cracked (less so at rear). Slight browning to pages, rare small stains on some pages.
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3290 Moon Lore - Rev. Timothy Harley
Price : £40.00 Publisher : London: Swan Sonnenschein Published : 1885 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Good
pp296. Blue cloth. Gold lettering and design front and spine. Spine heavily faded/worn, ends worn away. An interesting overview of everything from comparitive religion to astronomy in its varying chapters.
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2376 Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey - Weeks, Richard V.
Price : £20.00 Publisher : Greenwood Press Published : 1978 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good Jacket : No Jacket
ex library copy with usual markings and stamps. Label has been torn out from prelimainary page, leaving page a little worse for wear. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to cover and spine. (xli)+ 546pp with 4 illustrated maps.
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4561 Handbook of South American Indians Volume 7 Index [Bulletin 143) - [Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology]
Price : £12,5 Publisher : Washington: USGPO Published : 1959 Edition : 1st Edition Binding : Hard Condition : Very Good
pp286. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Wear to ends of spine.
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