(New York): Holiday House, 1935.. 1935.. Very good. - Squarish octavo, gray & red cloth titled in black with vignette stamped in black on front cover, in dw. The covers are lightly bumped & there is a small hole in the cloth of the spine; the dw is lightly soiled & chipped & somewhat darkened with several small pieces out of the dw spine. [x] & 124 pp. Full-page B&W illustrations & B&W head-pieces by John Atherton. The contents are near fine. First edition.The adventures of Sir Jaufry of Normandy were being sung by the troubadours of southern France three centuries before Malory wrote his Mort... View More...
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1987).. (1987).. Very good. - Square octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on spine, in color pictorial dw. The dw is very lightly rubbed. 191 pp. A small area of the surface of the front endpaper inner corners is rubbed away. Profuse B&W & color photographic illustrations by Simon McBride. There is a light remainder mark on the bottom edge, else near fine.
First American edition.
A personal tour of England, Scotland and Wales by one of the world's leading Arthurian scholars [from the dw copy]. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1949).. (1949).. Good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in red with decorations in red on spine & in blind on front cover, in dw. The covers are bumped & lightly rubbed; the dw is rubbed, chipped & soiled with short tears & some staining; the dw spine is faded with the head torn. xvi, [1] leaf, 324 & [1] pp. There is light staining to the endpapers with an owner's ink name on the front endpaper. Color pictorial title, color head-pieces & B&W vignettes by Henry C. Pitz. Very good in a fair dw.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927.. 1927.. Good. - Octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on spine & in black with vignette stamped in black on front cover. There are some small, light stains to the covers. xxiv, [1] leaf & 517 pp. B&W frontispiece, 6 B&W plates, 1 B&W head-piece & B&W pictorial initials by Arthur Rackham. The endpapers are somewhat darkened; the top edges of the prelims & the last 30 pp. are slightly rippled. Ex-library with hand-written letter on spine, ink notations on half-title & stain & rubbing where pocket or label has been removed from rear pastedown. Good. An early re... View More...
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, (1958).. (1958).. Good. - (The Big Little Book TV Series). 12mo [5-3/4"x4-3/8"], color pictorial paper covered boards. 276 pp. There is a small date stamp on the front pastedown & 2 series titles are crossed out in ink & red pencil on the front endpaper; there is occasional light foxing & the page edges are darkened. Profuse full-page illustrations by Helmuth Wegner in blue, black & white and orange, black & white. Good. View More...
New York: Stein and Day, Publishers, (1972).. (1972).. Very good. - Quarto, green cloth titled in gilt on spine, in color pictorial dw. The front cover is slightly bumped with a small score mark. The dw is rubbed & lightly soiled with a small score mark to the front panel. 224 pp. Profuse B&W & color illustrations & B&W maps & plans. Very good.
First American edition.
Part of the New Aspects of Archaelogy series, edited by Sir Mortimer Wheeler. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
(Totowa, NJ): Littlefield Adams & Company, (1979).. (1979).. Very good. - Square octavo, dark brown cloth titled in silver on spine, in dw. The covers are bumped & slightly warped; the dw is lightly rubbed with a short tear to the bottom edge of the front panel. vi & 224 pp. B&W & color illustrations. 2 leaves of the text are creased. Very good.
First American edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
(Manchester, U.K.): Manchester University Press, (1976).. (1976).. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed wrappers. The binding is bumped with the spine & extremities faded. [ix] & 179 pages. The page edges are darkened & there are some ink markings & underlinings in the modern English text. Good.
Manchester Medieval Classics, general editor G. L. Brook.
Edited with an introduction, prose translation and notes by W. R. J. Barron. The Middle English text is printed side by side with the translation. View More...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922.. 1922.. Very good. - Octavo, three quarters gilt-ruled green calf & black calf titled in gilt between gilt-decorated raised bands in blind & with decorations in gilt on spine; t.e.g.; marbled endpapers. The binding is lightly rubbed, the covers are lightly bumped & the spine is faded. 238 pp. A very good, attractive copy. First edition.These plays, with one exception, were written in Greenwich Village, and, with another exception, first performed there--some at the old Liberal Club, and others by the Provincetown Players. They are souvenirs of an intellectual p... View More...
Indianpolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1926).. (1926).. Good. - Octavo, dark blue cloth titled in red. The covers are lightly rubbed with some tiny white marks to the front cover; the spine is somewhat faded. 340 pp. There is light foxing to the endpapers & 2 rear blanks have been roughly opened; the page edges are very slightly darkened. Good.
A humourous version of the life of Sir Galahad. View More...
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1971.. 1971.. Very good. - Octavo, orange & white pictorial wraps. The wraps are very lightly rubbed & soiled with a price sticker on the front wrap. viii & 163 pp. Very good.
Second printing.
The alliterative Morte Arthure, published as part of the York Medieval Texts series of Middle English writing. The text of the poem is in Middle English. View More...
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1969).. (1969).. Very good. - Octavo, tan cloth titled in brown, in a price-clipped dw. The dw is very lightly soiled & slightly darkened. viii, [iii] & 267 pp. The top corners of the leaves are lightly creased through page 20. Illustrated with a B&W facsimile. Very good. Dust jacket present. View More...
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux / An Ariel Book, (1970).. (1970).. Very good. - Octavo, golden yellow cloth titled in maroon on the spine in a pictorial dust wrapper. The dust jacket is slightly creased & soiled with a couple of tiny chips at edges. 196 pages, illustrated in black & white. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. First edition. An exploration of the various Tristan legends, their origins and development through the ages. The author pays close attention to the versions circulated by the early troubadours as well as to Malory's and Spenser's. Those versions by Matthew Arnold, Si... View More...
New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1986.. 1986.. Very good. - Large octavo, black cloth titled in gilt on spine & in gilt with image of a knight in armour stamped in gilt on front cover. xxxvii, [1] leaf & 649 pp. B&W illustrations. The bottom corners of the pages in the middle section of the book are slightly bowed, else near fine.
New York: Burt Franklin, 1962.. 1962.. Good. - (Selected Papers in Literature and Criticism Number 1). Octavo, dark blue cloth titled in gilt on spine. The covers are bumped, rubbed and lightly spotted. xvii & 308 pp. There is an owner's ink name & address on the front endpaper. B&W portrait frontispiece & 1 B&W plate. The contents are very good.
First edition.
Essays on medieval romances, Malory, Chaucer, Charlemagne, King Athelstan, etc. First Edition. View More...
(London): Edward Arnold, (1974).. (1974).. Good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt on spine, in dark green pictorial dw. The dw is rubbed with some spotting internally. vii, [i] & 284 pp. The pages are somewhat darkened. Good.
First edition.
"An inquiry into the beginnings of Arthurian romance, centring on the first extant work in that tradition, Eric et Enide by Chretien de Troyes, and ranging over texts as far south as Italy and as late as Malory." [From the dw copy] Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Paris: Leon Techener, Libraire, 1872.. 1872.. Fair. - Small octavo, three-quarter dark brown calf & brown cloth titled in gilt on spine between gilt-decorated raised bands in blind; marbled edges & endpapers. The binding is bumped & rubbed & the head of the spine is chipped with a short tear to the front joint. 384 & [3] pp. & 7-page publisher's catalogue. The front endpaper, flyleaf & half-title are detached with a small piece out of each front edge. The page edges are darkened & there is scattered foxing & staining. B&W frontispiece, 1 B&W plate & decorative initials. Ex-library with library... View More...
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag zu Leipzig, 1922.. 1922.. Good. - Octavo, three-quarters dark blue calf & marbled boards titled in gilt between gilt rules on spine; t.e.g. The boards are slightly warped with the front board rubbed & faded; the spine is rubbed & darkened. 633 pp. plus colophon & 1-page publisher's catalog. There is light foxing to the endpapers & prelims, else the contents are very good.
Boston, MA: J. E. Tilton and Company, 1870.. 1870.. Good. - Small octavo, green cloth titled in gilt on spine. The covers are bumped & lightly rubbed & the head & tail of the spine are lightly chipped. 151 pp. There is an owner's ink name on the front endpaper with a small typed address label on the pastedown; the rear pastedown is lightly soiled; there is scattered light foxing & the page edges are slightly darkened. Good. Rare American edition, published in the same year as the Fields, Osgood edition.Arthurian poems included in this collection are "The Coming of Arthur", "The Hol... View More...
- Small octavo, tan cloth titled in gilt on spine & in gilt with a coat of arms stamped in cream & gilt on front cover. The top edge is gilt. The spine & extremities are darkened with the head of the spine lightly chipped; the covers are soiled & lightly bumped. 129 pages The page edges are darkened & the book is lightly cracked at page 84. Good. From the library of Stuart Close [1860-1929] a homeopathic doctor and author who was professor of Homoeopathic Philosophy from 1909 to 1913 at the New York Homoeopathic Medical College. He was also consulting physician at the Flower Hospital, N.Y. and... View More...
