📚 The Basques

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Europe’s oldest language and a mountain identity: whaling, iron, and the politics that survived every empire around them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject basques in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Legends and popular tales of the Basque people	Mariana Monteiro	1887	20
The Basque	Mark Kurlansky	1999	17
Basque Legends	Wentworth Webster	2010	15
Los vascos	Julio Caro Baroja	1958	9
Basque legends	Wentworth Webster	1877	8
La Cantabria	Enrique Flórez	1768	4
Le pays basque	Francisque Michel	1857	4
Tradiciones vasco-cántabras	Juan V. Araquistain	1866	4
Essai d'une bibliographie de la langue basque	Vinson, Julien	1891	4
Tales of a Basque grandmother	Frances Carpenter	1930	4
A book of the Basques	Gallop, Rodney	1930	4
Sweet promised land	Robert Laxalt	1957	4
Orígenes de los vascos	Bernardo Estornés Lasa	1965	4
Études sur l'origine des Basques	Jean-François Bladé	1869	3
The relation of the fisheries to the discovery and settlement of North America	Charles Levi Woodbury	1880	3
Le folk-lore du pays Basque	Vinson, Julien	1883	3
Basque people	Dorothy Canfield Fisher	1931	3
El elemento vasco en el siglo XVIII venezolano	Vicente de Amézaga Aresti	1966	3
Amerikanuak	William A. Douglass	1975	3
Les Basques	Jacques Allières	1977	3
First International Basque Conference in North America (proceedings) =	International Basque Conference in North America (1st 1982 California State University--Fresno)	1982	3
Eusko-Bibliographia =	Jon Bilbao	1985	3
The Basques	Roger Collins	1987	3
Basque Gender Studies	Margaret Bullen	2003	3
Histoire des Basques ou Escualdunais primitifs	A. Baudrimont	1853	2
Alma vasca	José María Salaverría	1900	2
De mi tierra vasca	Carmelo de Echegaray	1917	2
Vasconia españolísima	Zacarías de Vizcarra y Arana	1939	2
Orígenes de los vascos	Bernardo Estornés Lasa	1959	2
El mundo en la mente popular vasca	José Miguel de Barandiarán	1960	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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