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Hardcover:

9780023066535, titled "Reading Instruction and the Beginning Teacher: A Practical Guide" | Burgess Intl Group, March 1, 1984, cover price $39.00 | also contains Reading Instruction and the Beginning Teacher: A Practical Guide

Paperback:

9780226323985 | 2 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1949), cover price $20.00

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Product Description: Nine tales, selected and retold here by anthropologist and author Theodora Kroeber for the adult general-interest reader. The new foreword by her son, Karl Kroeber, provides context about the author's methods and describes his own personal connection to the stories themselves.

Paperback:

9780520006768 | Univ of California Pr, June 1, 1959, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Nine tales, selected and retold here by anthropologist and author Theodora Kroeber for the adult general-interest reader.
9789990062403 | Univ of California Pr, June 1, 1959, cover price $0.02

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Product Description: In this new and substantially revised edition of H. J. Rose's classic survey and analysis of the evolution and tradition of Greek myth, Robin Hard adds various features which bring the work up-to-date with contemporary scholarship and address the needs of students...read more

Hardcover:

9781138834224 | Reprint edition (Routledge, June 29, 2015), cover price $140.00 | About this edition: In this new and substantially revised edition of H.
9780548132456 | Kessinger Pub Co, July 30, 2007, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

Paperback:

9781428643079, titled "A Handbook of Greek Mythology, Including Its Extension to Rome" | Kessinger Pub Co, July 31, 2006, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9780415046015 | Routledge, November 1, 1991, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: This especially substantial folkish son-of-a-gun stew concocted by J. Frank Dobie and associates is distinguished by a wide variety of materials, ranging from the simplest recording of single items, like anecdotes, folk remedies or sayings, through the skillfully retold primitive legend, to the scientific, though quite idiomatic, anthropological report, and to the scholarly analysis of the philosophy of the folk...read more

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9780870740466 | Southern Methodist Univ Pr, January 1, 1965, cover price $16.95

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9781574410884 | Univ of North Texas Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This especially substantial folkish son-of-a-gun stew concocted by J.

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Product Description: A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, which examines how Texans of many races have shaped their lives and shaped the state.

Hardcover:

9780870740480 | Southern Methodist Univ Pr, June 1, 1967, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, which examines how Texans of many races have shaped their lives and shaped the state.

Paperback:

9781574410891 | Univ of North Texas Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, which examines how Texans of many races have shaped their lives and shaped the state.

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Product Description: The title of this collection denotes a span from the horse-drawn vehicles with steel tires that had to be shrunk down occasionally, to the cars that accelerate to unbelievable speeds on a drag strip. Society members like to look back at old customs and beliefs but they are quite willing to take into account that urbanization and engineering do not destroy folklife but rather bring about new formations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Wilson M. Hudson (editor)

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9781574410600 | Univ of North Texas Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The title of this collection denotes a span from the horse-drawn vehicles with steel tires that had to be shrunk down occasionally, to the cars that accelerate to unbelievable speeds on a drag strip.
9780884260257 | Encino Pr, June 1, 1968, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The title of this collection denotes a span from the horse-drawn vehicles with steel tires that had to be shrunk down occasionally, to the cars that accelerate to unbelievable speeds on a drag strip.

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Examines the mythologies, mystic cults, literary works and dissentations which have been presented with the theme of lost continents from Plato's dialogues.

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9780486226682 | Dover Pubns, June 1, 1970, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Examines the mythologies, mystic cults, literary works and dissentations which have been presented with the theme of lost continents from Plato's dialogues.

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Product Description: Variety and richness are indeed found in this Publication by the Texas Folklore Society. The first folk type to appear in the book is the hunter, in Francis Abernethy’s account of the East Texas communal hunt, which he sees in relation to man’s ancient hunting habits...read more

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9780884260219, titled "Hunters and Healers: Folklore Types and Topics" | Encino Pr, October 1, 1971, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Variety and richness are indeed found in this Publication by the Texas Folklore Society.

Paperback:

9781574410914, titled "Hunters and Healers: Folklore Types and Topics" | Univ of North Texas Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Variety and richness are indeed found in this Publication by the Texas Folklore Society.

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Examines the myth-making process since primitive times to demonstrate the ways in which specific myths reflect human needs (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780670503599 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1972, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Examines the myth-making process since primitive times to demonstrate the ways in which specific myths reflect human needs

Paperback:

9780140194616 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 1, 1993), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Examines the myth-making process since primitive times to demonstrate the ways in which specific myths reflect human needs

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Product Description: In vivid detail he describes his years of intermittent schooling, his entry into life in the fishing industry at the age of ten, his marriage, at thirteen, to a high-ranking Kwakiutl girl, and his life in a remote Indian village before moving to the Reserve...read more

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9780773501348 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, May 1, 1972, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: In vivid detail he describes his years of intermittent schooling, his entry into life in the fishing industry at the age of ten, his marriage, at thirteen, to a high-ranking Kwakiutl girl, and his life in a remote Indian village before moving to the Reserve.

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Product Description: Original 1st edition Hardcover!!!!

Hardcover:

9780295953168 | Univ of Washington Pr, June 1, 1974, cover price $25.00 | also contains Coyote Tales of the Northwest | About this edition: Original 1st edition Hardcover!

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Hardcover:

9780387901718 | Springer Verlag, June 1, 1976, cover price $89.95
9780387900896 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, October 1, 1975), cover price $79.95 | also contains The Otherworld Voyage in Early Irish Literature: An Anthology of Criticism

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A new edition of the classic compilation of Nebraska lore and legend, first published in 1959, includes a selection of weather lore, superstitions, cave legends, superheroes, folk customs, hoaxes, a study of the use of dialect in folklore, and a critical analysis of the origins of American cowboy and folk songs. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780837186160 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, June 1, 1976, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: A distinguished scholar and writer who, in the words of H.

Paperback:

9780803287884 | New rep edition (Bison Books, July 1, 2006), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A new edition of the classic compilation of Nebraska lore and legend, first published in 1959, includes a selection of weather lore, superstitions, cave legends, superheroes, folk customs, hoaxes, a study of the use of dialect in folklore, and a critical analysis of the origins of American cowboy and folk songs.
9780803287242 | Reprint edition (Univ of Nebraska Pr, November 1, 1989), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A distinguished scholar and writer who, in the words of H.

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Product Description: "In my opinion this project of publications devoted to folk literature of South America is of paramount importance. South American mythology belongs to the spiritual inheritance of mankind on par with the great masterpieces of Greek and Roman antiquity and of the Near and Far East...read more

Hardcover:

9780520032996 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 1977, cover price $63.00 | About this edition: "In my opinion this project of publications devoted to folk literature of South America is of paramount importance.

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Product Description: This classic study is an introduction to oral poetry, a broad subject which Ruth Finnegan interprets as ranging from American folksongs, Eskimo lyrics, and modern popular songs to medieval oral literature, the heroic poems of Homer, and recent epic compositions in Asia and the Pacific...read more

Hardcover:

9780253322005 | Indiana Univ Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: This classic study is an introduction to oral poetry, a broad subject which Ruth Finnegan interprets as ranging from American folksongs, Eskimo lyrics, and modern popular songs to medieval oral literature, the heroic poems of Homer, and recent epic compositions in Asia and the Pacific.
9780521213165 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, May 27, 1977), cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Oral poetry is a wide subject that ranges from American 'folk-songs', Eskimo lyrics or popular songs, to the heroic poems of Homer and distinct epic composers in Asia and the Pacific.

Paperback:

9780253207081, titled "Oral Poetry: It's Nature, Significance and Social Context" | Indiana Univ Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This classic study is an introduction to oral poetry, a broad subject which Ruth Finnegan interprets as ranging from American folksongs, Eskimo lyrics, and modern popular songs to medieval oral literature, the heroic poems of Homer, and recent epic compositions in Asia and the Pacific.

Myth and Reality in Irish Literature offers a rich collection of essays covering a wide spectrum of Irish literature from the early medieval saints and scholars to twentieth century writers such as Joyce and Beckett. Lady Gregory, Synge, Yeats, O'Casey and Myles na Gopaleen are among the poets, playwrights, critics, and authors treated in the book. The essays are written from both a personal and a scholarly perspective. Contributors to the volume include the Irish authors Denis Johnston, Thomas Kilroy, Kate O'Brien and Thomas Kinsella, and scholars David Greene, Denis Donoghue, Ann Saddlemyer and Shotaro Oshima. Of interest to students of English Literature as well as observers of the Irish scene, this book is of particular value to students of Irish heritage and literature.

Paperback:

9780889200388 | Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr, September 1, 1977, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Myth and Reality in Irish Literature offers a rich collection of essays covering a wide spectrum of Irish literature from the early medieval saints and scholars to twentieth century writers such as Joyce and Beckett.

Miscellaneous:

9780889206281 | Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr, October 1, 1977, cover price $85.00

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An account of a kayak and canoe journey through the Brooks Range wilderness, impressions of urban life and political activity, and portraits of people in the bush make up a study of contemporary Alaska (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780374126452 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1977, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: An account of a kayak and canoe journey through the Brooks Range wilderness, impressions of urban life and political activity, and portraits of people in the bush make up a study of contemporary Alaska

Paperback:

9780374522872 | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1991), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: An account of a kayak and canoe journey through the Brooks Range wilderness, impressions of urban life and political activity, and portraits of people in the bush make up a study of contemporary Alaska
9780553255270 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, December 1, 1978), cover price $4.95 | also contains Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780394584119 | Random House, July 1, 1991, cover price $16.00 | also contains Mobile DNA

Prebinding:

9780613133999 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $29.40 | About this edition: An account of a kayak and canoe journey through the Brooks Range wilderness, impressions of urban life and political activity, and portraits of people in the bush make up a study of contemporary Alaska

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