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
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. 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 with Wynkyn de Worde's device..... 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
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
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, inc., 2013. First edition, first printing. Wraps. Large 8vo. 210pp. Glossy pictorial wraps. Index. Illustrated. A fine copy. Exploration of the blend of Arthuriana and cartoon animation beginning in 1933. 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
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1966. First English edition. Hardcover. Map eps. Blue buckram, gilt spine title. 379pp. Textblock edges a little dusty from age else this is a near fine copy. The dustwerapper is price-clipped, has 2 closed marginal tears on the back panel and is darkened on the spine..... 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
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
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, et al: Rider & Co., n.d., ca. 1940's. 8vo. Black cloth, gilt spine title. Illustrated with 11 plates and 3 drawings. Index. 198pp. Covers magic arfts among the Celts; Druids; Spells & Charms; Spirit World; Necromancy; the Cult of Arthur; the Mystery of the Grail; and Second Sight..... More
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..... 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. TAKE32. More
