Stamford, CT: Champion International Corporation, (1987). Only edition. Stapled wraps. Folio .20pp. Stapled printed wraps. This is a paper sample book showing how well Champion Pageantry papers can be used both for text and for cover stock. Each page notes along the bottom the type and weight of the paper..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xx, 420pp. Illustrated from the manuscript. Red cloth, printed paper spine label. Label a little scuffed, neat presentation on the front free endpaper, else a near fine copy, The dustwrapper is worn and soiled but still presentable. The..... More
London: George R. Harrap & Company, [1913]. First edition. Fine. 4to. . (iv), 157, (3)pp. Beige cloth blocked on the upper board in a design in colors by the illustrator; black spine title. Top edge gilt. Color printed endpapers. Four pp. of color frontismatter; full page color plates and numerous..... More
New York: Brentano's, n.d. (ca. 1913). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Lavishly illustrated in the medieval style by Evelyn Paul with 8 full page color plates, 8 tipped in textual color plates and other decorations, including historiated initials. Music by Alfred Mercer. In publisher's brown cloth blocked in gilt on the..... More
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1981. First editions, first printings. Hardcover. Three volumes. 8vo. Brown cloth, gilt spine titles. Fine copies. Volumes II and III are in fine dustwrappers. Volume I is Author Listing; Volume II is Subject Listing; Volume III is a Continuation from 1978-1992. Arthurian Studies III, VI and..... More
Vienna/France: Piatnik/France Cartes, ca 1950/1986. Two complete decks of Arthurian playing cards. The first is a single complete deck of cards (originally issued as a dual deck) issued by Piatnik of Vienna ca. 1950, their number 21450. Gunther (spades), Amfortas (clubs), Roland (hearts) and Arthur (diamonds). Very good condition; no..... More
Dublin: The Talbot Press, Ltd, 1924. First edition. Wraps. 4to. Printed wraps. A very good copy. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903-1910. First editions, first printings. Hardcover. Four 4to volumes, all in original mustard-color cloth with spines and upper boards blocked in black, red and gilt., With black and white illustrations by Howard Pyle. This is essentially a near fine set. These titles have traditionally..... More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1933). Brandywine. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt, with a color paste-on. xvi, 313pp. Trace of aging else a fine, bright copy. The Brandywine Editions of Pyle's works were produced on the eightieth anniversary of his birth by five famous artists who had been pupils of Pyle. The..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. xviii, (329),(i)pp. Written and Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Original yellow-brown cloth blocked in red, black and gilt. Cloth soiled and lightly worn at edges, rear inner hinge neatly mended, else a very good copy. Tipped onto the front..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 4to.xviii, (1), 258pp. Publisher's tan cloth blocked in black, red and gilt on the spine and also on the upper board in a design by the illustrator. Coated endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Pyle, lavishly decorated with headpieces, tailpieces, and..... More
London: Payne and Foss, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. xliii, 172pp. Half title present. Early cloth in a drab green, blocked in blind on the boards and with gilt spine titles. Trace of soil and wear to the edges, neat ownership stamp on the front free endpaper else a near..... More
London: Payne and Foss, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. xliii, 172pp. Half title present. Contemporary half leather in a dark green color. Spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, gilt spine title. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Light foxing but with a few pages with moderate foxing, light wear to..... More
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
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. First edition in English. Hardcover. 4to. vii,(i),225,(i)pp. Contemporary half leather; spine in 6 compartments with raised bands; ornately gilt; marbled paper boards; all edges gilt. Illustrated with engravings from designs by Richard Smirke. Foxed; boards rubbed; else a very good copy. Bullfinch reports..... 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
New York: Doubleday, (1990). Illustrated by Daniel Horne. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Thin folio. Unpaginated. (32pp.) Full color glossy boards, blue endpapers. Illustrated throughout in full color. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is fine as well. Tis is the story of the child Merlin by..... 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
