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Steel Flea, The by: Leskov, Nicholas
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Steel Flea, The
by: Leskov, Nicholas

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, Revised Edition, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Adapted from the Russian by Babette Deutsch and Abrahm Yarmolinsky. Black & brown & white illustrations by Janina Domanska. Dust jacket shows minor wear and chipping.

Record # 109799

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Tales My Father Told by: Una Ni Cathill
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Tales My Father Told
by: Una Ni Cathill

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 3rd pr., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in blue, b&w illustrations by Richard Kennedy, 77 pages. Collects seven stories, at least two of which are fantasies (fairy folk). Clean copy.

Record # 374872

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Tales of Temba: Traditional African Stories by: Arnott, Kathleen
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Tales of Temba: Traditional African Stories
by: Arnott, Kathleen

Hardcover. New York, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 144 pages, illustrated in b&w by Tom Feelings. Black cloth covers with gilt snake drawing on front. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Spine slightly cocked, clean copy.

Record # 403757

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Tales of the Home Folks In Peace and War by: Harris, Joel Chandler
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Tales of the Home Folks In Peace and War
by: Harris, Joel Chandler

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 417 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light edge wear to cover boards. Ex-library embossed stamp on title page. light markings on rear end paper. otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 354165

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

Tall Tale America - A Legendary History of Our Humorous Heroes by: Blair, Walter
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Tall Tale America - A Legendary History of Our Humorous Heroes
by: Blair, Walter

Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 262 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket edgewear and chipping. Illustrated end papers. Black & white illustrations by Sgt. Glen Rounds. Light gutter crack by title page.

Record # 201356

Price: $24.00
Price: $24.00 

The Admission of Vermont into the Union by: Leon W. Dean
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The Admission of Vermont into the Union
by: Leon W. Dean

Hardcover. Burlington VT, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gold lettering, design on front cover, 62 pages. Dean was a Professor at the University of Vermont who taught ceative writing. He was the author of many works of historical fiction, including stories about Vermont heroes John Stark and Ethan Allen, and was the founder of the Green Mountain Folkore Society. Two small notations on prelim pages, bookplate on front fly leaf.

Record # 387239

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

The Bold Heroes of Hungry Hill and Other Irish Folk Tales by: Seumas MacManus
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The Bold Heroes of Hungry Hill and Other Irish Folk Tales
by: Seumas MacManus

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent, 1st UK, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in poor dust jacket with pieces missing. 180 pages, b&w drawings. 12 authentic tales from Ireland. Book is tight and clean.

Record # 382013

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The Buried Moon and Other Stories by: Bang, Molly
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The Buried Moon and Other Stories
by: Bang, Molly

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A collection of 5 folk tales from various countries about the feelings buried deep within us. Tales include title story + "The Wolf In Disguise", "Savitri and the Lord of the Dead","The Mad Priest", etc. Clean copy.

Record # 380955

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The Buried Moon and Other Stories by: Bang, Molly
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The Buried Moon and Other Stories
by: Bang, Molly

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of 5 folk tales from various countries about the feelings buried deep within us. Tales include title story + "The Wolf In Disguise", "Savitri and the Lord of the Dead","The Mad Priest", etc. Clean copy.

Record # 380956

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The End of the World Is a Cul De Sac: Stories by: Kennedy, Louise
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The End of the World Is a Cul De Sac: Stories
by: Kennedy, Louise

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead Books, 1st US, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The secrets people kept, the lies they told. In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories, people are effortlessly cruel to one another, and the natural world is a primitive salve. Here, women are domestically trapped by predatory men. Ireland's folklore and politics loom large, and poverty, emotional and material, seeps through every crack. By an award-winning Irish writer, her second book. Clean copy.

Record # 397766

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Hat Shaking Dance and Other Tales from the Gold Coast by: Courlander, Harold
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The Hat Shaking Dance and Other Tales from the Gold Coast
by: Courlander, Harold

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 115 pages illustrated in b&w line by Enrico Arno. This entertaining collection of twenty-one folk tales from the Ashanti people of Ghana in West Africa takes its title from the wild 'dance' the spider Anansi performed when he tried to hide some burning hot beans under his hat. Clean copy.

Record # 372525

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

The Hurricane's Children by: Carl Carmer
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The Hurricane's Children
by: Carl Carmer

Hardcover. NY, David McKay Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth stamped in black, 175 pages illustrated in b&w by Elizabeth Black Carmer. A collection of American folk tales. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 398925

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The Khoja Tales of Nasr-Ed-Din by: Barnham, Henry D./Tony Sarg (Illust.)
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The Khoja Tales of Nasr-Ed-Din
by: Barnham, Henry D./Tony Sarg (Illust.)

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt design and lettering. A collection of Turkish folk tales, b&w drawings by Tony Sarg. Introduction by Sir Valentine Chirol. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Gilt on spine faded.

Record # 385334

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

The Mabinogion by: Jones, Gwyn & Thomas Jones (translators)
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The Mabinogion
by: Jones, Gwyn & Thomas Jones (translators)

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Jeff Thomas. A collection of classic Welsh stories. Clean copy.

Record # 382542

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 
 

The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by: Hamilton, Virginia
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The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl
by: Hamilton, Virginia

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 309 pages. Library Edition with spine sticker (NOT EX-LIB). Complete number row. Horn Book review, 1983: "The author interweaves black folklore with her own family history in a tale remarkable for its total integration of the novel with the imaginative possibilities of legend." An African god-child and her older brother travel as albatrosses on a slave ship to Georgia, witnessing two centuries of history in two god-days! Clean copy.

Record # 372212

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by: Julius Lester
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The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
by: Julius Lester

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 11th pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a Coretta Scott King Award sticker on front. Illustrated in b&w and color by Jerry Pinkney.

Record # 398639

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Treasure of the Turkish Pasha by: Yehoash Biber/Uri Shulevitz
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The Treasure of the Turkish Pasha
by: Yehoash Biber/Uri Shulevitz

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. A Jewish folk tale set in the Sinai. Mild shelf wear.

Record # 398545

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The Two Brothers by: William Jaspersohn /Michael Donato
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The Two Brothers
by: William Jaspersohn /Michael Donato

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 24 pages illustrated in color by Michael Donato. Award-winning author William Jaspersohn brings American history alive in a moving immigrant tale. The story retells the amazing, true saga of the Eurich brothers from Prussia, who arrive five years apart in America in the 1880s and who miraculously end up on neighboring farms in central Vermont. Clean copy.

Record # 398699

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The Unbroken Web: Stories and Fables by: Adams, Richard
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The Unbroken Web: Stories and Fables
by: Adams, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 142 pages; color plates by Yvonne Gilbert and black and white illustrations by Yvonne Gilbert. 19 folk tales from across the world. Clean copy.

Record # 384343

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 
 

The White Ship: Estonian Tales by: Kallas, Aino ; translated by Alex Matson
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The White Ship: Estonian Tales
by: Kallas, Aino ; translated by Alex Matson

Hardcover. NY, Jonathan Cape, reprint, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 256 pages.Foreword by John Galsworthy. Traveler's Library edition. Bookplate on inside front cover.

Record # 387017

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

This 'n' That: Folk Tales Of The Adirondacks (SIGNED COPY) by: Helen Escha Tyler
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This 'n' That: Folk Tales Of The Adirondacks (SIGNED COPY)
by: Helen Escha Tyler

Softcover. Saranac Lake NY, self published, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 104 pages, light peach card wraps. SIGNED BY TYLER on title page. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 381832

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings by: Harris, Joel Chandler
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Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
by: Harris, Joel Chandler

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton , reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 265 pages plus ads in rear. 112 black & white illustrations by A.B. Frost. Red cloth covers with decorations, gold lettering. Gilt top edge. Front hinge cracked. Corners bumped. Light rubbing to corners, spine.

Record # 508827

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings: The Folklore of the Old Plantation by: Harris, Joel Chandler
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Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings: The Folklore of the Old Plantation
by: Harris, Joel Chandler

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 231 pages plus ads in rear. Illustrated in b&w by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. Brown cloth decorated in gilt and black (bright gilt drawing of rabbit with pipe on front). First printing with no mention of this title among 8 pages of publisher's ads in back and the word presumptive in the last line on page 9. Endpapers feature a light gray butterfly pattern. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A bright, clean copy.

Record # 404102

Price: $1,700.00
Price: $1,700.00 

Uncle Remus: The Complete Tales by: Lester, Julius / Pinkney, Jerry
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Uncle Remus: The Complete Tales
by: Lester, Julius / Pinkney, Jerry

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 686 pages. The Uncle Remus tales, originally written down by Joel Chandler Harris, were first published over a hundred years ago, and serve as the largest collection of African-American folklore. In this four-book series, Julius Lester masterfully retains the flavor of the tales, while dropping the heavy dialect of the Harris originals and adding contemporary language and references-- ensuring that the stories will be understood and enjoyed by new generations of readers. The stories are beautifully illuminated by the slyly humorous full-color and black-and-white art of Jerry Pinkney.

Record # 401120

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00