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Floating World - The Story of Japanese Prints, The


Michener, James A.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 403 pages. Hardcover. 65 illustrations, 40 in full color. Price clipped dust jacket worn with tape repairs, fading - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612213


Price: $63.00 

Flora Photographica - Masterpieces of Flower Photography 1835 to the PresentEwing, William A.
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Flora Photographica - Masterpieces of Flower Photography 1835 to the Present


Ewing, William A.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1991, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white photographs. Light edge wear to pages. Covers with slight fading along very edges. Dust jacket with rubbing - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Overall, Good condition.

Record # 613887


Price: $31.00 

 

Folk Art of Europe


Bossert, Helmut Th.

Softcover. New York, Hastings House Publishers, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Beautifully illustrating the folk art of Europe in two parts, Part one containing textile such as fabrics, rugs and embroidery, while part two deals with ceramics, metals, wood and other materials. Color and b&w illustrations throughout. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, nice pictorial dust jacket, all in very nice, clean and crisp condition. Plain cardboard slipcase.

Record # 605148


Price: $70.00 

 

Folk Culture of Yucatan, The


Redfield, Robert

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 416 pages. Hardcover. Brown cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has significant agewear (see image). Slight foxing to edges, pages clean. Binding good, spine straight. A study of Yucatan "today".

Record # 33472


Price: $15.00 

Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume EighteenLinnard (Ed.), William
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Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume Eighteen


Linnard (Ed.), William

Softcover. Cardiff Wales, Society for Folk Life Studies, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 84 pages, b&w illustrations. Articles include: Mud Horse Fishing in Bridgwater Bay, Collyweston Stone Slating Techniques, Mumming in Bampton, Building Birch Brooms, others. Very good, clean.

Record # 411681


Price: $13.00 

Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume FifteenJenkins (Ed.), J. Geraint
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Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume Fifteen


Jenkins (Ed.), J. Geraint

Softcover. Cardiff Wales, Society for Folk Life Studies, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 124 pages, b&w illustrations. Articles include: Shellfish Gathering in Wales, The Craft of a Dry Stone Waller, Traditional Architecture of South-West Lancashire, Hedging Styles in Wales, others. Very good, clean.

Record # 411685


Price: $13.00 

Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume FourteenJenkins (Ed.), J. Geraint
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Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume Fourteen


Jenkins (Ed.), J. Geraint

Softcover. Cardiff Wales, Society for Folk Life Studies, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 102 pages, b&w illustrations. Articles include: The Funeral Wake in Wales, Single Storey Cottages in West Yokshire, Dress as Social Record, Scollop Thatch in Co. Mayo, others. Very good, clean.

Record # 411687


Price: $13.00 

Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume NineteenLinnard (Ed.), William
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Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume Nineteen


Linnard (Ed.), William

Softcover. Cardiff Wales, Society for Folk Life Studies, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 110 pages, b&w illustrations. Articles include: The Lawless Courts of Rayleigh and the Rochford Hundred, Laundering in the Welsh Home, Sickles Hooks and Scythes in Ireland, others. Very good, clean.

Record # 411680


Price: $13.00 

Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume SeventeenJenkins (Ed.), J. Geraint
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Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume Seventeen


Jenkins (Ed.), J. Geraint

Softcover. Cardiff Wales, Society for Folk Life Studies, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 70 pages, b&w illustrations. Articles include: Corn Drying Kilns, Meal Milling and Flour in Ireland, Mole Trapping, Weaver's Cottages in the Huddersfield Area, Notes on Burial Customs in 17th Century Caernarfonshire, others. Very good, clean.

Record # 411683


Price: $13.00 

Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume SixteenJenkins (Ed.), J. Geraint
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Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume Sixteen


Jenkins (Ed.), J. Geraint

Softcover. Cardiff Wales, Society for Folk Life Studies, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 108 pages, b&w illustrations. Articles include: The Grain Harvest in Scotland, Bark-Stripping in Wales, Some Flat-roof Thatch Survivals, Dress in 19th Century Ireland, others. Very good, clean.

Record # 411684


Price: $13.00 

Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume ThirteenJenkins (Ed.), J. Geraint
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Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume Thirteen


Jenkins (Ed.), J. Geraint

Softcover. Cardiff Wales, Society for Folk Life Studies, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 97 pages, b&w illustrations. Articles include: Working Class Food and Cooking in 1900, Cider and Folklore, Peasant Agriculture in Medieval Gwynedd, The Decline of Seaweed as Manure, Early Days of Distilling, others. Very good, clean.

Record # 411686


Price: $13.00 

Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume TwelveJenkins (Ed.), J. Geraint
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Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume Twelve


Jenkins (Ed.), J. Geraint

Softcover. Cardiff Wales, Society for Folk Life Studies, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 111 pages, b&w illustrations. Articles include: Fish Weirs and Traps, Sea Bird Fowling in Scotland and Faroe, Oatbread in North Staffordshire, Sucan and Llymru in Wales, others. Very good, clean.

Record # 411688


Price: $13.00 

Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume Twenty-FourLinnard (Ed.), William
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Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume Twenty-Four


Linnard (Ed.), William

Softcover. Cardiff Wales, Society for Folk Life Studies, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 126 pages, b&w illustrations. Articles include: Marriage Tokens and Disputed Contracts in North-East England 1560-1630, The Flail the Harvest and Rural Life, Food as Communication in Wales, others. Very good, clean.

Record # 411682


Price: $13.00 

Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume Twenty-SevenLinnard (Ed.), William
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Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume Twenty-Seven


Linnard (Ed.), William

Softcover. Cardiff Wales, Society for Folk Life Studies, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 109 pages, b&w illustrations. Articles include: Trends in French Ethnology, Some Bird-Scaring and Herding Rhymes, Folk Medicine in Rural Ireland, The Barns of Craven, others. Very good, clean.

Record # 411690


Price: $13.00 

Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume Twenty-SixLinnard (Ed.), William
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Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume Twenty-Six


Linnard (Ed.), William

Softcover. Cardiff Wales, Society for Folk Life Studies, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 116 pages, b&w illustrations. Articles include: The Denby Dale Pies, Felt Hatmaking in Ceredigion, Woodmen of the Oxfordshire Chilterns 1300-1800, The Welsh Folk Narrative Tradition, others. Very good, clean.

Record # 411693


Price: $13.00 

Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume Twenty-TwoLinnard (Ed.), William
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Folk Life: A Journal of Ethnological Studies: Volume Twenty-Two


Linnard (Ed.), William

Softcover. Cardiff Wales, Society for Folk Life Studies, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 124 pages, b&w illustrations. Articles include: Summer Pasture in Donegal, Turf-Walled Houses of the Central Highlands, Wooden Chain Carving, Rural Colliers of Wyre, others. Very good, clean.

Record # 411689


Price: $13.00 

 

Folklore of the British Isles


Hull, Eleanor

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co, Ltd., 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Hardcover. Deckled edges. Embossed title on front cover. Boards bound in tan cloth. Cloth frayed at top and bottom of spine. Light spotting and page yellowing throughout. Binding a bit loose, cracked at gutter in some places. All pages still attached. British Council book plate to front endpaper. Previous owner's dated signature and pencil notes on front flyleaf and pencil underlining throughout.. Well-read book, perfect for collectors.

Record # 5560130


Price: $500.00 

Folklore: Volume 82 1971 (4 issues)Folk-Lore Society
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Folklore: Volume 82 1971 (4 issues)


Folk-Lore Society

Softcover. London, The Folk-Lore Society/ William Glaisher, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcovers, 360 pages total in four quarterly issues. Scholarly essays on all aspects of folk studies worldwide. Articles include: S. F. Sanderson 'Towards an Atlas of British Folk Culture', John Widdowson 'The Bogeyman', Peschel 'Structural Parallels in Two Flood Myths', Dalton 'The Loathly Lady', McNeil 'The Function of Legend, Belief and Custom in Precious Bane', Remly 'The Anglo-Saxon Gnomes as Sacred Poetry', Ruth Michaelis-Jena 'Oral Tradition and the Brothers Grimm', Martin Puhvel 'The Swimming Prowess of Beowulf', K. Palmer and R.W. Patten 'Some Notes on Wassailing and Ashen Faggots in South and West Somerset'. George Monger 'A Note on Wedding Customs in Industry Today', Clean copies.

Record # 411622


Price: $25.00 

 

Forbidden Films: Censorship Histories of 125 Motion Pictures


Sova, Down B.

Softcover. New York, Chackmark Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 368 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good. Pages clean, binding tight. Looks barely read. Forbidden Films traces the efforts to censor 125 films, from The Silent Birth of a Nation to Schindler's List.

Record # 31647


Price: $15.00 

Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to PornographyShattuck, Roger
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Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography


Shattuck, Roger

hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 370 pages. Hardcover. Silver gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp on front cover. Illustrated frontispiece. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469134


Price: $15.00 

 

Foreign Bodies - Performance, Art, and Symbolic Anthropology


Napier, A. David

Hardcover. Berkeley, California University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR AT TOP RIGHT CORNER OF FRONT ENDPAPER. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610703


Price: $19.00 

 

Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual, The


Turner, Victor

Softcover. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, Reprint, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 405 pages. Frontispiece, 20 black-and-white illustrations, and 11 diagrams. Minor edge wear, particularly along spine. Some sun-fading along spine and rear cover. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Pencil markings in introduction and 1st chapter. Good reading copy.

Record # 856126


Price: $13.00 

 

Forging Ahead - The Story of the Upward Progress of Thomas James Wise - Prince of Book Collectors, Bibliographer Extraordinary and Otherwise


Partington, Wilfred

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs. Paper along right edge of illustration index page with tears, and missing top right corner. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613655


Price: $25.00 

 

Forgotten Cape: 1940-1960, The


Sicchio, Mary

Softcover. Charleston, Arcadia Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear to covers. Lipstick kiss on inside of back cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 612414


Price: $13.00 


  
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