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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1953. Decorations by John Austen and Illustrations Engraved in Wood by Agnes Miller Parker. Limited edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Full green buckram stamped in gilt. Printed in monotrype Garamond on William Nash rag paper. A fine set. The dustwrappers are present...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.....
London & New York: Hoddder & Stoughton, n.d. (1911). Illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,173,(1)pp. Folio. Full vellum tooled in gilt and bullion the spine and upper board; top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with twenty full color tipped-in plates by Brickdale. A fine, bright copy.....
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;...
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...
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...
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...
