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Newport, RI: Board of Directors, Newport Folk Festival, 1959. RARE program for the First Newport Folk Festiaval, 24 pp. featuring daily programs and two artist biographies with black and white photos per page, Introduction by Billy Faier, editor and publisher of CARAVAN magazine. In original stapled pictorial wrappers, Very Good, foxing and slight discoloration to wrappers. Featured artists included are: Pete Seeger, Odetta, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, Josh White, The New Lost City Ramblers, Memphis Slim, The Stanley Brothers, The Kingston Trio, Earl Scruggs, Jean Ritchie, and Bo Diddley, among others. . First Printing. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers . Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

No Place: Privately Printed, 1889. #35/52 copies privately printed. xl, 585 pp. Bound in contemporary dark blue pebbled morocco over blue buckram boards, blue end papers, top edge dyed red. Very Good Plus, light rubbing at edges of morocco. Unique bookplate of the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research bottom corner front end page, with its faded call letters bottom edge of spine. A wonderful provenance.. Limited and Numbered Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1845. Very Good in contemporary half pebbled brown morocco over marbled boards, spine with five raised bands and lettered in gilt, marbled end papers, the bookplate of noted Celtic language and folklore scholar Edgar M. Slotkin front paste down along with a small bookseller's label. Prior owner name top edge verso front end page. Boards rubbed at edges, binding solid, contents quite clean and unmarked. A scholar's copy. . New Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Tall 8vo.

London: The Folk-Lore Society, 1890. Publications of the Folk-Lore Society No. XXV. Printed in Gaelic and English on facing pages. Bookplate of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society front paste down, along with small seller's label. Bookplate of noted Celtic scholar and folklorist Edgar M. Slotkin verso front end page. Very Good, slight spine lean, light wear to cloth at edges, scant toning at end pages. SCARCE in collectible condition. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Melbourne, Australia: George Robertson, 1869. New Edition, containing prefaces to First and Second Editions, xliii, 255 pp, with six full page color illustrations and numerous black and white illustrations. Master Tyll Owlglass is the Anglicized name for the German jokester Till Eulenspiegel. Finely bound in lovely Art Deco brown morocco with vertical sets of double gilt rules, five raised bands with gilt lettering, decorative end pages, all edges gilt, wide inner dentelles with double gilt rules. Bearing the small bookplate of Alfred Sutro, English author, dramatist, and translator of the works of Maurice Maeterlinck. Near Fine, original cloth covers bound in front and rear, moderate toning to end pages and first few pages, two small rubs to morocco at rear joint, prior owner name half-title page. . New Edition. Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Athens, OH: Swallow Press/ Ohio Univ. Press , 1987. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR John Matthias on title page to a colleague and friend. Fine, in Wraps, as Issued. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Trade Paperback Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Fine in Wraps, as Issued/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Ann Arbor, MI: Bear Claw Press, 1976. Howard Norman's SCARCE first published book. First Edition stated. Very Good Plus, small rub to wrappers near bottom edge of spine, faint label shadow top edge front wrapper. faint creases to wrappers. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Tucson: The Kiva , 1964. From the collection of noted semiotician and linguist Thomas A. Sebeok, his name stamp front cover. Seri blue is a paint used by the Seri Indians in face painting. A SCARCE offprint, 15 pp. . Reprint. Stapled Wrappers. Fine in Wraps, as Issued/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: The Viking Society for Northern Research, Univ. Of London, 1937. RARE. Reprinted from Saga-Book, Vol. XII. Fine in stapled wrappers, small inked notations top edge front cover. 18 pp. . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Harlan, KY: Pine Mountain Settlement School,, 1935. SCARCE. Both issues Near Fine, with vertical or horizontal mailing folds. Both stamped "Herzog Collection" verso, from the collection of noted anthropologist, linguist, and ethnomusicologist George Herzog. . Appalachians, Folk Music, "Singing Willie" Nolan. . First Edition. Pamphlet. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1928. Boas' classic treatise on race and culture, RARE in the original 1928 First Edition and in collectible condition. 236pp. + 10 pp references. Very Good in the original black cloth with paper labels front board and spine, spine label a bit darkened and a trifle rubbed, cloth a few small rubs, contents are clean, tight, and unmarked. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1924. SCARCE. Near Fine, boards a bit darkened. 276 pp. + 12 pp. publisher's catalog, map, 20 black and white photographs. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. SCARCE in such lovely condition. Near Fine, small inked letter bottom corner front end page, gilt at spine a bit rubbed to publisher's name at bottom edge. In the original green cloth, gilt titles and decorations bright, tissue-guarded frontispiece with elephants, vii-xv, 310 pp. with 4 pp. publisher's catalog, illustrated with numerous black and white full-page photographs. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Pennsylvania: Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology, 1945. From the collection of noted semiotician, linguist, and folklorist Thomas A. Sebeok, his last name signature in ink front end pages of all 4 bulletins.. A Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, Sebeok was among the founders of biosemiotics and editor-in-chief of the journal Semiotica, the leading periodical in the field. In addition to Fenton's 4-part article on the Cornplanter Senecas also contains Autumn L. Leonard's 4 part article "The Presque Isle Portage and the Venango Trail" and other related articles. The bulletins paginated 1-38, 39-67, 68-101, and 102-136. All 4 bulletins Very Good Plus or better, in addition to Sebeok's signature there are handwritten titles on front covers and some marginal notes and checkmarks, all in Sebeok's hand. SCARCE as a set. . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First Edition stated. Very Good, no jacket, small sticker shadow bottom edge of spine, stamp and blindstamp of Folklore Institute, Indiana University front end page and title page respectively., light soiling to cloth. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Woodcuts by Richard Bennett. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Stockholm: Instituti Hungaricic Universitatis Holmiensis , 1944. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page and dated 10/28/45, to noted semiotician and linguist Thomas A. Sebeok. Wolfgang Steinitz, German linguist and folklorist, was an important pioneer of the German folk-revival in both East and West Germany. Sebeok, Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, was among the founders of biosemiotics and editor-in-chief of the journal Semiotica, the leading periodical in the field. A nice folklore Association Copy. Book is Very Good, 2" tear at spine top edge, chips at ends of spine, contents are clean, tight, and unmarked. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.

Stockholm: Riksmuseets Etnografiska Avdelning , 1928. Very Good, 2" triangular chip bottom corner front wrapper. pp. 13 + 6 of B&W photographs. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Menasha, Wisconsin: George Banta Publishing Co., 1943. Very Good Plus, sticker shadow front cover, stamped "Herzog Collection" front end page, from the collection of noted anthropologist, linguist, and ethnomusicologist George Herzog. SCARCE monographs, pp. 28 + 17. . First Edition. Cardstock. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963. Collected from Oral Tradition. 94 pp. Near Fine, toning top edge front wrapper, contents are clean, tight, and unmarked. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1949. 67 pp. SCARCE. Near Fine, sticker shadow front wrapper. Contents are clean, tight, and unmarked. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.