Anatomy Puck by Briggs (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Many Black and White Illustrations.

First edition, Scarce, ex library, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 284pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to page edges, light usual library markings, d/w suck down to rear board) in d/w VG- (light rubbing, light soiling, several massive pieces of cover missing, 8cm closed tear to front cover repaired with cellotape, 9cm tear to rear cover repaired with cellotape).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. xi, (3), 284 pages; Clean and secure in orginal green cloth binding in very good dustjacket with minor chips and toning and internal reinforcement at top of spine with older clear tape (now in protective mylar cover). A very nice example of this seminal work by Katharine Mary Briggs (8 November 1898 15 October 1980), British folklorist and writer, who also wrote the four-volume A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language, and various other books on fairies and folklore. From 1969 to 1972, she was president of the Folklore Society, which established an award in her name to commemorate her life and work. CONTENTS: The Air They Breathed; Opinions on Fairies in the Sixteenth Century; Opinions on Fairies in the Seventeenth Century; Shakespeare's Fairies; The Fashion for the Miniature; Hobgoblins and Devils; The Country Fairies in Masques, Plays and Poetry; The Fairies and the Practitioners of Magic; Fairies and Ghosts; Mermaids and Monsters; Spiritual Creatures. APPENDICES: Some of the Personae of Fairyland; Fairy-Tales Cited in the course of the book; Some other descriptions of fairies; Some Spells and Charms and the Letter of an Unsuccessful Magician; A list of Books Cited or Quoted. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First English Edition. Collectible First English Edition 1959 Very Good+ Hardgood Very Good+ Dust Jacket Clean 284 pp. b/w illus NOT a library copy, price cut dust jacket Signature on first free endpaper. An Examination of Fairy Beliefs among Shakespeare's Contemporaries and Successors. No writing in text Bright brisk green hardcover. Solid dust jacket a few little chips and wear here and there but Very Good+ See all our Three Geese In Flight Books Scans. Katherine Briggs outstanding Scholar of Faerie and was one of the first supporters of our Three Geese in Flight Book shop way back in 1977.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. 1959 Routledge and Kegan Paul hardback 1st edition 1st impression very good+ clean tight binding, green cloth. No dustjacket. Illustrated.

Routledge and Kegan Paul. London. 1959. First edition, hardback in DW. Illustrated. head nad tial of spine crumpled. Endpapers and top margins browned, small receipt used as bookmark has caused browning to pages 4-5 otherwise a very clean and sound copy in a very scarce wrapper that is sunned to spine and slightly grubby to rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This copy is SIGNED 'with the author's complements. K. M. Briggs' on the endpaper and there is a letter from the author laid in, gifting the book. The jacket is somewhat browned at the spine and price-clipped and there has been some unfortunate tape reinforcement placed on the folds and the plastic cover has been attached with tape. That said, it is a very good looking copy overall. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Myths, Legends & Folklore; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 78602.