New York: G P. Putnam's Sons, 1994. Illustrated by David Shannon. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin folio. Unpaginated. Black spine, gilt; green paper over boards. Deep red endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout. A fine cop in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper. More
Paris: Ioannis Petit, 1513. Editio Princeps. Hardcover. 4to. (42)pp, 164ff. Title page in black and red, and printed throughout in black and red. Extensive index at the beginning. Recent full deep blue morocco, spine in six compartments with gilt titles, handmade paper endpapers. A few notes in an old hand... 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
Evanston, IL: Freya Reeves Lambides, 1987. First edition. Stapled wraps. Dated 1987, this copy of Volume II, Number 3, of 'Avalon to Camelot' has a cover with a drawing of an incident in Cretien's Yvain. Yvain rescued a lion from a venomous dragon. The lion became Yvain's steadfast ally and... 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
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1907. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (262)pp. Beige cloth printed in black and green with color onlay of a Lady. Top edge gilt. Decorated endpapers. 5 full page duotone plates, many illus. in text. A fine, as new copy, in the original glassine wrapper... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970-1979. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Three volumes, all first printings. Three volumes in publisher's bindings with unclipped dustwrappers. Minor traces of soil and wear else this is a fine set in fine dustwrappers which have a minor amount of roughness at the edges. To date... 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. Very good. Contemporary full green morocco. Spine in 6 compartments, gilt. Gilt rules on the bolards and gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Neat 1882 presentation inscription on the front free endpaper. A fine copy in a fine, nicely executed and... 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
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 & 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
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1903. First edition, first printing. Wraps. 12mo. (28)pp. Original printed wraps. Title page in red and black. Four full page black and white plates by Jessie M. King. One of The Broadway Booklets, many times reprinted. Foxed throughout; upper wrapper creased; one plate supplied;... More
Londres: Guillaume Pickering, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 12mo. Illustrated with lithographs of the manuscripts, some with initials colored by hand in red and blue. Title page in Volume 1 in both English and French.. Publisher's original cloth in a small sand grain design. This is clearly Winterbottom's Type... More
Londres: Guillaume Pickering, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 12mo. Illustrated with lithographs of the manuscripts, some with initials colored by hand in red and blue. Title page in Volume 1 in both English and French.. Publisher's original cloth in a small sand grain design. This is clearly Winterbottom's Type... More
Londres: Guillaume Pickering, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 12mo. Illustrated with lithographs of the manuscripts, some with initials colored by hand in red and blue. Publisher's original cloth in a small diaper design. This is clearly Winterbottom's Type 'H' (Tomlinson). Krupp (p.23) ascribes an appearance date of 1836... More
Montrose: James Watt, 1814. Early Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 434pp. Contemporary faded and stained plain green cloth rebacked in a deeper green cloth with gilt spine titles and rules. A few stains and marginal notes; three bookplates; notes on rear endpapers; repaired tear on C3; else a very good copy. The... More
London: T. Davison for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. 8vo. Half leather, marbled paper boards and endpapers. Spines with gilt titles. Top edges gilt. Contains: Syr Tryamour, Syr Isenbras, Syr Degore, Syr Gowghter, The Hye Way to the Spyttell Hous, The Schole... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co., n.d. (1873?). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 12mo. 48 pages of full color illustrations incorporated into the letterpress stories of Red Riding-Hood, Puss-in-Boots, Mother Hubbard, Cock Robin's Death, Jack and the Bean-Stalk, and Tom Thumb. Red cloth spine, Printed boards in black and red on... More
Glastonbury: n.p., (1955). Unpublished manuscript. Unpublished manuscript. 200pp. written in ink on one side only, bound with cord into a light board cover. 7-1/2 x 9'. The manuscript, entirely in Webb's legible hand, contains a preface 'To the Critic'; a foreword by Albert C. R. Carter, King Arthur's Champion, Knights... More
