Search Results for: Folklore

The Russians Said It First: A Heritage of Proverbs selected and translated by Simeon Aller.

Aller, Simeon and Nikolai Remisoff, illustrator.

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1963. Remisoff, Nicolai (Re-My). Hardcover. Octavo (20.5 × 14 cm). Original illustrated cloth, unclipped dustjacket in mylar sleeve; v-viii, [1], 137 pp. With a preface by Upton Sinclair and fourteen leaves of black-and-white illustrations by Re-My (Nicolai Remisoff). Signed and inscribed by the author... More about The Russians Said It First: A Heritage of Proverbs selected and translated by Simeon Aller

Add to Cart

Price: €100.00

Item Details

Ask a Question

Persidskaia khristomatiia [A Persian reader], vol. 1.

Boldyrev, Aleksei.

Moscow: V Universitetskoi Tipografii, 1826. Octavo (26 × 18.2 cm). Contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards; 184 pp. Binding somewhat rubbed; wear to upper spine extremity; front hinge starting. The first volume of a textbook of Persian, published in two volumes, the first containing a selection of poems, tales, and historical... More about Persidskaia khristomatiia [A Persian reader], vol. 1

Add to Cart

Price: €600.00

Item Details

Ask a Question

Die poetische Ukraine. Eine Sammlung kleinrussischer Volkslieder. Ins Deutsche übertragen von Friedrich Bodenstedt [Poetic Ukraine. A collection of folk songs from Little Russia. Translated into German by Friedrich Bodenstedt].

Friedrich Bodenstedt, editor and translator.

Stuttgart und Tübingen: J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1845. Small octavo (17.3 × 10.8 cm). Contemporary marbled boards; gilt title to spine; XII, 132 pp. Text block lightly resized to binding; light foxing throughout; tiny embossed private owner stamp; still about very good. First attempt to introduce a German readership to... More about Die poetische Ukraine. Eine Sammlung kleinrussischer Volkslieder. Ins Deutsche übertragen von...

Add to Cart

Price: €500.00

Item Details

Ask a Question

Narodnyia belorusskiia pesni. Sobrany E. P. [Belarusian folk songs, collected by E. P.].

Elizaveta I. Pavlovskaia (1830-1915), compiler.

St. Petersburg: V tipografii Eduarda Veimara, 1853. Octavo (19.7 × 12.8 cm). Contemporary quarter-calf, original yellow printed wrappers preserved (front and back); [4], III, [2], 6-86 pp. Private stamp "Ex libris Bronislai Epimachi-Schipillo" and Schipillo's signature and purchase note to title and front free end paper. Binding worn; hinges starting;... More about Narodnyia belorusskiia pesni. Sobrany E. P. [Belarusian folk songs, collected by E. P

Sold

Item Details

Ask a Question

Porcha, klikushi i besnovatye, kak iavleniia Russkoi narodnoi zhizni ['Porcha', 'klikushi' and the possessed as a phenomenon of Russian folk life]. With a preface by Vladimir M. Bekhterev.

Krainskii, Nikolai V.; Vladimir M. Bekhterev.

Novgorod: self-published (Gubernskaia Tipografiia), 1900. Octavo (22.8 × 15 cm). Somewhat later blue calf over four raised bands, retaining front wrapper; black pebbled cloth boards; [4], II, VI, [1], 243 pp. Front wrapper lightly rubbed and soiled, restored to gutter; small "Printed in Russia" stamp to bottom of front wrapper;... More about Porcha, klikushi i besnovatye, kak iavleniia Russkoi narodnoi zhizni ['Porcha', 'klikushi' and...

Sold

Item Details

Ask a Question

Ugro-russkiia koliady [Ugro-Russian Koliada].; Biblioteka sovremennykh ugro-russkikh pisatelei.

Lintur, Petr Vasil'evich (1909-1969).

Uzhgorod: ["Russkoe Slovo"]; Tip. Georgiia Miravchika, 1942. 12mo (15 × 11.5). Original printed wrappers; [3], 63 pp. Near fine, with a tiny wormhole to front wrapper and first three pages. Collection of Rusyn folk Christmas chants and songs, so-called Koliada (most likely from the Roman calendae), compiled by the prolific... More about Ugro-russkiia koliady [Ugro-Russian Koliada].; Biblioteka sovremennykh ugro-russkikh pisatelei

Sold

Item Details

Ask a Question

Putevye zametki i nabroski o russkom iskusstve. Vypusk 1, Belozerskii krai [Travel notes and sketches on Russian art. Issue 1, the Belozersk region] (all published).

Makarenko, Nikolai.

St. Petersburg: Izdanie A. A. Zhukova, 1914. Quarto (25.8 × 20 cm). Original printed wrappers; 57, [2] pp. [3] leaves of plates on thick card stock; numerous full-page illustrations and many tipped-in smaller photographic illustrations. Very light wear and toning to wrappers; private bookplate to front wrapper verso; very good... More about Putevye zametki i nabroski o russkom iskusstve. Vypusk 1, Belozerskii krai [Travel notes and...

Sold

Item Details

Ask a Question

Koreiskie skazki [Korean fairy tales].

Shkurkin, P[avel].

Shanghai: Izdatel'stvo, 1941. Octavo (19.2 × 13.4 cm). Original yellow pictorial wrappers; 253, [1] pp. Seventeen illustrations in the text and a cover illustration by the Russian émigré artist Ivan Gerasimov. With a bibliography of the author's published works. A very good copy, likely never read. First and only edition... More about Koreiskie skazki [Korean fairy tales

Sold

Item Details

Ask a Question

Penka Rare Books

Folklore

The Russians Said It First: A Heritage of Proverbs selected and translated by Simeon Aller.

Persidskaia khristomatiia [A Persian reader], vol. 1.

Die poetische Ukraine. Eine Sammlung kleinrussischer Volkslieder. Ins Deutsche übertragen von Friedrich Bodenstedt [Poetic Ukraine. A collection of folk songs from Little Russia. Translated into German by Friedrich Bodenstedt].

Out of stock

Narodnyia belorusskiia pesni. Sobrany E. P. [Belarusian folk songs, collected by E. P.].

Porcha, klikushi i besnovatye, kak iavleniia Russkoi narodnoi zhizni ['Porcha', 'klikushi' and the possessed as a phenomenon of Russian folk life]. With a preface by Vladimir M. Bekhterev.

Ugro-russkiia koliady [Ugro-Russian Koliada].; Biblioteka sovremennykh ugro-russkikh pisatelei.

Putevye zametki i nabroski o russkom iskusstve. Vypusk 1, Belozerskii krai [Travel notes and sketches on Russian art. Issue 1, the Belozersk region] (all published).

Koreiskie skazki [Korean fairy tales].

Folklore

Refine search results

Out of stock