London: Constable & Co., 1936. John Farleigh. First Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo, cloth, dust jacket with illustration, 314 + [2] pages. A remarkable suggestion is made that originally many of the Greek gods were birds to and from which various human attributes were selected and magnified. Thus, Athena was originally..... 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: John Heywood, N.D. (c.1890). Later British Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Small 8vo (7.5" x 5"), red embossed and gilded cloth with decorative spine and boards, pale yellow endpapers, 382 pages. Atrractively bound edition of Barham's edition of "Ingoldsby's" [actually the pseudonym of priest Richard Barham's] occult-themed now classic..... 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
London: TED SMART / HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001. J. R. R. Tolkien. Reset English Edition: 1995; Illustrations 1998; First Printing of this edition. Pictorial boards. Small 8 (8" x 5 1/2"), pictorial boards depicting Smaug-the-dragon atop a heap of jewels, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) repeating the cover illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien..... More
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2011. J. R. R. Tolkien. Fifth edition reset 1995 / 75th Anniversary Edition. Cloth. 16mo (6 1/4" x 4 1/2"), green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, Preface by Christopher Tolkien, as Afterword by J.R.R. Tolkien: the first chapter of The Lord of the Rings, with 8 B&W..... More
Boston New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. Maps. First American Edition. Boards. 8vo, black boards with gold lettering, profusely illustrated with B&W frontispiece map of Númenor an small Tolkien sketch (p.149), archival mylar-protected pictorial wrappers (unclipped) depicting characters looking at a distant red-topped mountain painted by Ted Nasmith, front map..... 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