London: Payne and Foss, 1827. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xiv,369,(1)pp. Contemporary half morocco binding by Blackwell. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt, gilt title, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge gilt. The final page is an advertisement for the publisher's edition of the Life of King Arthur. A...... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 1901. Limited edition. Hardcover. Also 21052, but no prospectus. Small 4to. xviii, (2), (150), 2pp. Introduction signed: R.H. (i.e. Robert Hoe). "One of three hundred and twenty-five copies on Whatman paper, and three copies on vellum." This copy on Whatman paper. Bound in full leather..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1954. First English edition. Hardcover. First English edition. 8vo. Original scarlet cloth, gilt. A fine, bright copy with only a whisper of wear on the bottom edge. Dustwrapper is not price-clipped, but is rubbed at the folds with some creasing on the rear panel and some nicks at..... More
London: G. G. Harrap & Co., n.d. (1913). Illustrated by Williy Pogany. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. Illustrated throughout in both black and white and color by Pogany. This copy bound in the somewhat scarce publisher's brown leather, spine intricately gilt and with the title and illustration on the upper..... More
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xviii,(2),202pp. Reddish-brown cloth, gilt spine title. Index. Genealogical chart. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is in fine condition. There is a from Cambridge Books on the front flap (40/-). Wolfram's 13th century recreation of Chrestien de Troyes is here..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Tranch & Co., 1885. Limited edition. Hardcover. [2], xlvi, 367, [1] pp. (8vo) 24.8x16.3 cm (9¾x6½"), three-quarter gilt-ruled brown levant morocco & cloth, spine tooled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; bound by Zaehnsdorf. A fine copy with only a trace of..... More
Los Angeles: Intervisual Communications, Inc., (1982). Design, Illutrations and Paper Engineering by Keith Moseley. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Glossy colorful boards and text. When opened, the book becomes the castle, showing the drawbridge, the great hall, bedroom and kitchen, stables and library. Based on the castle build by Uther..... More
Tucson: Thorn Books, 2020. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (20)pp. Printed in black, red and blue throughout, with two illustrations of the edition princeps of Sigebert's Chronicon. One of 10 special copies printed and bound by hand by the Thorn Binder, lettered from A through E. The boards are red silk..... More
Redruth: J. & M. Roberts, n.d., ca. 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vii, 195pp. Frontispiece. Blue printed lcoth (titled Trystan & Ysolt). A rendering of the story in which we assume it was first told. Date of publication taken from the preface. A very good copy. Apparently issued without dustwrapper..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1907-1908. First edition thus. Softcover. Three softcover reprints from 'Modern Philology' and represent the first separate edition of Sommer's transcription and analysis. Parts I & II (1907) are the first publication of the Galahad and Perceval sections of the Tristan Ms. in the British Museum..... More
NY: AMS Press, 1969. Facsimile edition. Very good. Facsimile reprint of the 1911 work. Brown cloth, gilt. Edited from manuscripts in the British Museum. A very good copy. Notes from 5 other manuscripts covering Part II of Lancelot are given in brackets. The appendix contains another version of the return..... More
Boston: The Gorha Press, 1907. Decorations by Theodore Brown Hapgood. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 42,(2)pp. Red cloth, gilt title on spine and upper board. Blind stamp of former owner on front free endpaper. The tissue guard has some foxing which has transferred to the frontispiece and the title page, else..... More
London: George Allen, 1895-1897. Illustrated by Walter Crane. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. Six volumes, bound from parts. 85 full-page black and white illustrations by Walter Crane. Printed on handmade paper by Charles Wittingham at the Chiswick Press. Ivory colored buckram, gilt spine, and with the upper boards blocked in gilt..... More
Berkeley: University of California, (1983). First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes slipcased. Edited and with a critical apparatus by James W. Spisak, dictionary of names & places by Bert Dillon. Based on the William Matthews' work with the Pierpont Morgan Copy of William Caxton's edition of 1485. With 16pp. of facsimiles..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970-1979. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Three volumes in publisher's bindings with unclipped dust wrappers. All are first printings of this classic Arthurian work. This is a fine, bright set with only traces of use. To date the most extended portrait in all literature of..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1970. First edition, first printing. Fine. 8vo. Black textured paper over boards gilt spine title. Top edge deep pink. Light blue end papers. Gift inscription dated in the year of publication n the front free end paper else a fine copy. The dustwrapper is p[rice-clipped else..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1973. Hardcover. First Canadian edition of the second book in Mary Stewart's Arthurian trilogy. A neat gift inscription on the upper corner of the reverse of the front free endpaper, else a fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped. It is very slightly sunned on the..... More
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1904. Limited edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper. New vellum-paper spine, blue boards, with original spine laid-on. A fine, largely unopened copy. 'Tristam' occupies fully one half of the volume. More
n.p. Sup. Educ. Assn. (1930). Illustrated by M. E. Webb. Three stiff cards 6½ by 9½ inches, printed in color on the obverse and in black on the reverse. These cards date from about 1930 and were distributed by the New York Schools system as a teaching aid for various..... More
London: Strahan & Co., 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Two Idylls: Gareth and Lynette and The Last Tournament. Full contemporary dark blue niger morocco binding by Mansell. Raised bands; spine in six compartments, gilt. Gilt rules and corner ornaments on upper and lower boards. Gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges..... More
London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1867. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. First edition. Hardcover. Large folio. 41pp. Illustrated with nine full page steel engravings by Doré. Later binding of blue buckram, gilt spine title. Occasional very faint trace of foxing, mainly on the tissue guards, the first tissue guard with an..... More
Boston: Fields, Osgood. & Co., 1870. First US edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth, gilt spine titles, boards embossed in blind Light rubbing else a fine copy. The other Arthurian poems are: The Coming of Arthur, Pelleas and Ettarre, the Passing of Arthur, followed by seven additional Poems. These four Arthurian..... More
Norwalk. CT: The Easton Press, (2002). Illustrated by Gistave Doré. Hardcover. Folio. Facsimile of the first Doré-illustrated edition of Tennyson's Idylls. Full leather blocked in gilt on the spine and on the boards. All edges gilt. Ribbon marker. Moiré endpapers. Bookplate, else a fine copy. More
London: Edward Moxon, 1857. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. First illustrated edition. 4to. (1-vi), vi-xiii, (xiv-xvi), (1), 2-375, (376) cardstock pages. Illustrated with 54 wood engravings by the Dalziels, W. J. Linton, etc., after D. G. Rossetti, J. E. Millais, W. Holman Hunt, etc. A lovely and pleasant binding by Zaehnsdorf..... More
London & New York: Hoddder & Stoughton, n.d. (1911). Illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale. First Brickdale edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,(2),216pp. Brown cloth blocked on the spine and upper boards with titles in gilt and designs in dark brown. Illustrated endpapers. Twelve full color full page plates by Brickdale. A fine..... More
