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
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
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
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
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. 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: Edward Moxon and Co., 1867. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Very good. Folio. Steel engraved frontispiece and eight steel-engraved plates with tissue guards. Pleasantly bound in full scarlet morocco, the spine in seven compartments, gilt, with raised bands. The boards with gilt borders, titles, and an inner gilt rectangle with..... More
London & New York: Hoddder & Stoughton, n.d. (1911). Illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale. Limited Brickdaleedition. 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, bright..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. (1911). Illustrated by Eleanor F. Brickdale. 4to. First Brickdale illustrated edition. Blue cloth blocked in a design in gilt on the spine and upper board, and in blind on the lower board. 21 exquisite mounted plates by Brickdale in her best style. A near fine..... More
