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(Azarian, Mary) Azarian, Mary THE TALE OF JOHN BARLEYCORN OR FROM BARLEY TO BEER.
A traditional English ballad illustrated with woodcuts by Mary Azarian Boston David R. Godine (1982) 4to. half cloth, paper covered boards, dust jacket unpaginated
First edition. Medieval English ballad celebrating beermaking. Illustrated with woodcuts by Mary Azarian. Some rubbing to the dust jacket at the edges.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 105577

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Gerould, Gordon Hall (editor) OLD ENGLISH AND MEDIEVAL LITERATURE.
New York Greenwood Press, Publishers (1969) 8vo. cloth. 351 pages.
Reprint of the 1929 first edition. "Nelson's English Readings, Volume One." Sections on Beowulf, Cynewulf, Geoffrey Cahucer, Malory and popular ballads.
Price: $ 13.00 other currencies Order nr. 89775

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(Helikon Press) Adam, Helen SELECTED POEMS & BALLADS
(New York, NY) Helikon Press 1974 tall 8vo. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, slipcase 57, (3) pages
Limited to 126 copies numbered and signed by the author. A collection of 20 poems by Helen Adam. The woodcut on the title page is from an edition of Konrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium. Printed on Curtis Rag Natural Laid paper at The Stinehour Press and bound in Columbia cloth stamped in white foil at The New Hampshire Bindery, with French Marble paper covering the boards. Order forms, advertisements, a press release, and a dust jacket from the second printing are loosely laid-in. Slight shelf wear on slipcase.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 96853

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Keller, Kate Van Winkle. PRINTERS OF BALLADS, BOOKS, AND NEWSPAPERS: BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES AND CHECKLISTS FOR NATHANIEL COVERLY, SR., NATHANIEL COVERLY, JR., AND JOSEPH WHITE.
Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society Volume 117 Worcester American Antiquarian Society 2008 6 x 9 inches paperback 162 pages
The topic of this new book from the American Antiquarian Society is printing in New England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. More specifically, the author focuses on three printers who were active during that period: Nathaniel Coverly, Sr.; Nathaniel Coverly, Jr.; and Joseph White. Through a close examination of the bibliographical evidence, she demonstrates the extent of the production by the two Coverlys and White to the reading material available to adults and children in New England over more than fifty years.
The introduction provides a brief historical summary and an outline of the text that follows. Biographical descriptions of the Coverlys and Joseph White, as well as checklists of their works are included. There are approximately twenty grayscale images throughout the text. An index makes quick referencing possible. Distributed for the American Antiquarian Society.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 100615

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(Miniature Books) LORD LOVEL: AN ANCIENT SCOTTISH BALLAD.
San Rafael, CA Quail Hill Press 1982 oblong miniature book (7.5 x 5.5 cm) decorated paper-covered boards unpaginated
Limited to 115 numbered, signed copies. (Bradbury, Quail, 1). An ancient British ballad of anonymous authorship. Includes a short glossary of archaic terms. Hand colored illustrations.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 116501

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(Miniature Books) THE UNQUIET GRAVE.
(San Rafael, CA) The Quail Hill Press 1983 oblong miniature book (6.8 x 5.8 cm) quarter cloth, paper-covered boards unpaginated
Limited to 100 signed, numbered copies (Bradbury, Quail, 6). A tale of a young man's grief for his departed love, first recorded in The Folklore Record, I, 60, 1868. Illustrated by the publisher.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 116502

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(Rackham, Arthur) Fort, Paul LE LIVRE DES BALLADES.
Paris H. Piazza (1921) 4to. contemporary half leather, marbled paper-covered boards with gilt title and decorations on spine, original stiff paper wrappers bound-in, marbled endpapers; top edge gilt, other edges uncut; slipcase 108, (2) pages
Text in French. Limited, numbered edition of 1300. This edition one of 300 with extra color plates. First French edition (first English edition Some British Ballads,,Constable & Co, 1919). Fort (1872-1960) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), British illustrator and watercolorist (Latimore and Haskell 50-1; Gettings 179; Houfe 424). Tables of ballads and illustrations. Illustrations inside tan rules and gilt borders, some with tissue guards with reference to ballad and page on tissue. Original front stiff paper wrapper blue and tan design with Rackham illustration. Slipcase scuffed at edges. Boards scuffed at spine edge. Pencilled notes on rear free endpaper.
Price: $ 2,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 109789

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(Snodgrass, William D.) MIORITA.
Bucharest Albatros 1972 small 4to. stiff hand-made paper boards. not paginated.
Published by Albatros of Bucharest, Romania in collaboration with the National Committee of UNESCO for The International Book Year 1972. Volume design by Emil Chendea. Edited by Prof. Zoe Dumitrescu-Busulenga. Accompanied by a record produced by Electrecord-Bucharest. Contains six translations of the Romanian ballad "Miorita," with an English translation by William D. Snodgrass. Printed French-fold.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 55740

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(Wilde, Oscar) C.3.3. [Wilde, Oscar] THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL.
London Leonard Smithers 1898 8vo. two-toned cloth (viii) pages followed by 30 leaves
Limited to 2100 copies. (Mason p. 422.) Fourth edition of the collection of poetry featuring Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol." This edition was printed with the 99 copies of the third edition on March 4, 1898. Spine sunned. Cover soiled and worn in places.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 98419

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Wilgus, D.K. and Barre Toelken THE BALLAD AND THE SCHOLARS: APPROACHES TO BALLAD STUDY.
Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles 1986 8vo. stiff paper wrappers xii, 54 pages
Papers presented at a Clark Library Seminar, 22 October 1983. Introduction by Wayland D. Hand, Emiritus Professor of German and Folklore at UCLA. Endnotes and listing of members of the seminar.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 114663

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