1. Akutagawa, Ryunosuke.

Exotic Japanese Stories – The Beautiful and the Grotesque. 16 Unusual Tales and Unforgettable Images. Translated by Takashi Kojima and John McVittee. Introduction by John McVittee.

New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1964. 14.9 cm x 21.9 cm. Colour Frontispiece, 431 pages. 22 Collage Illustrations: 6 Colour and 16 Black and White by Masakazu Kuwata. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. A very good+ hardcover copy in black and grey cloth stamped in silver and red gilt with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to edges and very minor fading to front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Minor fraying and fading to dustjacket. From the reference library of Hans Christian-Andersen Translator Erik Haugaard.

2. Best, Elsdon.

The Whare Kohanga (the ‘Nest House’) and its Lore. Comprising data pertaining to procreation, baptism, and infant betrothal, &c.; contributed by members of the Ngati-Kahungunu Tribe of the North Island of New Zealand. ‘He puta taua ki te tane, he whanau tama ki te wahine.’

First published 1929. Wellington, New Zealand, A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, 1975. 25 cm x 15.5 cm. 93 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. A very small tear in front of dustjacket. Rare !

3. Celtic Society, Kingship and Customary Law – Dillon, Myles.

Celts & Aryans. / Survivals of Indo-European Speech and Society.

First Edition. Calcutta, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1975. 15 cm x 21,5 cm. XXIII, 153 pages [24] plates. Original Hardcover with illustrated, unclipped dustjacket in protective Mylar. Private gift inscription on front free endpaper. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor tear to the dustjacket. Extremely Rare !

4. Gaelic Fairy Tale Illustrations – [Mac Liammoír, Micheál] Ó Floinn, Tomás / Proinsias Mac Cana.

Scéalaíocht na Ríthe – [Stories of the Kings]. Tomás Ó Floinn agus Proinsias Mac Cana. A chuir in Eagar. Micheál Mac Liammoír a Mhaisigh.

Baile Átha Cliath, Saírséal & Dill, 1956. 18.1cm. 220, [4] pages. Including 6 plates with beautiful, tipped-in illustrations and their often missing, lettered tissue-guards. Hardcover. / Original, illustrated blue publisher’s cloth. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear / An underestimated publication with all illustrations in place. While the book was also published in softcover-cardboard, the first edition we offer here is the much better version.

5. [Inanna / Ishtar] De Shong Meador, Betty / Grahn, Judy.

Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart : Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess.

Austin, University of Texas Press, 2001. Octavo. 225 pages. Original, illustrated Softcover. New / Excellent condition.

6. [Inanna / Ishtar] Wolkstein, Diana / Kramer, Samuel Noah.

Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth – Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer.

Harper Perennial, 1983. Octavo. 256 pages. Original, illustrated softcover. New / Excellent condition.

7. McAlpine, Helen & William.

Japanese Tales and Legends. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1979. 13.8 cm x 22.3 cm. 212 pages. Black and white illustrations within text. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to edges. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

8. Squire, Charles / Mackenzie, Donald A. / Moncrieff, A.R. Hope.

Celtic Myth & Legend / Indian Myth & Legend / Myths of Babylonia & Assyria / Classic Myth & Legend / Romance & Legend of Chivalry / Teutonic Myth and Legend / Egyptian Myth and Legend / Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe /

Eight volumes. London, Gresham Publishing, c. 1910-1918. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. Celtic Myth & Legend: XIV, 450 pages / Indian Myth & Legend: XLVIII, 463 pages / Myths of Babylonia & Assyria: XXXIX, 537 pages / Classic Myth & Legend: XVI, 443 pages / Romance & Legend of Chivalry: XII, 439 pages / Teutonic Myth & Legend: 469 pages / Egyptian Myth & Legend: 404 pages / Myths of Crete & Pre-Hellenic Europe: LIV, 361 pages // Original Hardcovers decorated with Celtic symbols in black and gilt on green boards. With Illustrations in Colour and Monochrome. This set in unusually excellent good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Myth and Legend in Literature and Art].

9. Werner, E.T.C.

Myths & Legends of China [Myths of Epidemics / Myths of Medicine / Myths of Exorcism etc.] With Thirty-Two Illustrations in Colours by Chinese Artists.

Fourth Impression of the First Edition. London / Bombay / Sydney, George G. Harrap & Co., 1934. Octavo. Colour-Frontispiece, 454 pages including an excellent Index. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The rare, original dustjacket torn and with a larger part of the jacket missing. The Volume itself in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.