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THE SCIENCE OF FOLK-LORE,
by Alexander Haggerty Krappe
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Previous owner's name to jacket flap. GOOD book in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Methuen & Co, New Fetter Lane, London - reprint edition 1965 hardcover, 14½cms x 22cms, with dust jacket Previous owner's name to jacket flap. GOOD book in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket In eighteen chapters the author deals with the different forms of folk-lore: fairy tale, merry tale, animal tale, local legend, migratory legend, prose saga, etc. Each chapter discusses the characteristics and genesis of a given form, paying due attention to the various theories which have been proposed to account for it.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41728
- Title
- THE SCIENCE OF FOLK-LORE,
- Author
- Alexander Haggerty Krappe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 14½cms x 22cms, with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Previous owner's name to jacket flap. GOOD book in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co, New Fetter Lane, London - reprint edition
- Date Published
- 1965
- Pages
- 344 pages
- Keywords
- Folk Lore fairy tales legends prose saga proverb ballads ihymrs animal lore custom ritual magic folk-dance
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About the Seller
Pegasus Book Orphanage
Biblio member since 2016
McCrae, Victoria
About Pegasus Book Orphanage
On-line bookstore operating for 20+ years.
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