London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1908. B&W Glossy Photos. First Edition. Decorative cloth. Thick 8vo (8 7/8" x 6" x 2"), publisher's original tan cloth with gold lettering on spine with small Art Nouveau image of two nude men on plunging horses [Harrap logo?} & gilt title with flanking..... More
London: David Nutt, 1909. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, 2 vols., dark blue decorated and gilt-embossed cloth with gilded crest on front covers, 325 & 328 pages. SCARCE and Important two-volume set. Dark blue boards; gilt stamping on front board and along spine with title and author's name. Some foxing and..... More
London: Grant Richards, 1899. Several linecut illustrations. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. 8vo, brown gilt-stamped cloth (gilt image of the Maysya Avatar of Vishnu emerging from a fish or whale), several B&W illustrations, 182 pages. Classic study of the Indian myths that echo or underlie the biblical folktale of..... More
Boston New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. Revised and Expanded Edition, 2nd Printing. Cloth and boards. 4to, forest green quarter cloth with gold lettering over dark green boards, profusely illustrated with B&W and 8 glassy pages of colored illustrations (mainly reproductions of maps), Mylar-protected pictorial wrappers (unclipped)depicting orange-red Smaug-the-dragon atop a...... More