Alcock, Leslie

Was This Camelot? Excavations at Cadbury Castle 1966-1970

New York: Stein and Day, Publishers, (1972). (1972). New York: Stein and Day, Publishers, (1972). (1972). Very good. - Quarto, green cloth titled in gilt on spine, in color pictorial dw. The front cover is slightly bumped with a small score mark. The dw is rubbed & lightly soiled with a small score mark to the front panel. 224 pp. Profuse B&W & color illustrations & B&W maps & plans. Very good.

First American edition.

Part of the "New Aspects of Archaelogy" series, edited by Sir Mortimer Wheeler. Very good .

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Book number: 2778

Catalogue: Arthurian Legends

Keywords: ARTHURIAN; CAMELOT; CADBURY CASTLE; SOMERSET; ENGLAND; HILL-FORT; ARCHEOLOGY; ARCHEOLOGIST; LESLIE ALCOCK; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 1ST AMERICAN EDITION.

(Atherton, John). Ives, Vernon

Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende. Newly Revised from the Original Provencal by Vernon Ives

(New York): Holiday House, 1935. 1935. (New York): Holiday House, 1935. 1935. Very good. - Squarish octavo, gray & red cloth titled in black with vignette stamped in black on front cover, in dw. The covers are lightly bumped & there is a small hole in the cloth of the spine; the dw is lightly soiled & chipped & somewhat darkened with several small pieces out of the dw spine. [x] & 124 pp. Full-page B&W illustrations & B&W head-pieces by John Atherton. The contents are near fine.

First edition.

"The adventures of Sir Jaufry of Normandy were being sung by the troubadours of southern France three centuries before Malory wrote his Morte d'Arthur. Consequently, this story forms one of our earliest pictures of English knighthood..'Jaufry the Knight' was written by an unknown twelfth-century troubadour." - From the dw copy.

Scarce, especially so with the dust jacket. Very good .

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Book number: 24235

Catalogue: Arthurian Legends

Keywords: ARTHURIAN; KNIGHT; CHIVALRY; MIDDLE AGES; MEDIEVAL; TWELFTH CENTURY; 12TH CENTURY; ROMANCE; FRENCH; NORMANDY; KING ARTHUR; CHILDREN'S; ILLUSTRATED; VERNON IVES; ILLUSTRATOR; JOHN ATHERTON; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Barber, Richard; compiler

The Arthurian Legends: An Illustrated Anthology. Selected and Introduced by Richard Barber

(Totowa, NJ): Littlefield Adams & Company, (1979). (1979). (Totowa, NJ): Littlefield Adams & Company, (1979). (1979). Very good. - Square octavo, dark brown cloth titled in silver on spine, in dw. The covers are bumped & slightly warped; the dw is lightly rubbed with a short tear to the bottom edge of the front panel. vi & 224 pp. B&W & color illustrations. 2 leaves of the text are creased. Very good.

First American edition. Very good .

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Book number: 2783

Catalogue: Arthurian Legends

Keywords: ARTHURIAN; LEGENDS; ANTHOLOGY; ARTHUR; KING ARTHUR; ROUND TABLE; KNIGHTS; ROMANCES; CHRONICLES; THOMAS MALORY; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 1ST AMERICAN EDITION.

Dell, Floyd.

King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. 1922. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. 1922. Very good. - Octavo, 7-5/8 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in three quarters gilt-ruled green calf & black calf titled in gilt between gilt-decorated raised bands & with decorations in gilt on spine. The top edge is gilt. The binding is further enhanced with marbled endpapers. The binding is lightly rubbed, the covers are lightly bumped & the spine is faded. 238 pages. A very good, attractive copy. First edition. Among the cast members for the 1917 Provincetown Players production of "The Angel Intrudes" and the 1918 production of "Sweet-and-Twenty" was Edna St. Vincent Millay; among the cast members for the 1916 Provincetown Players production of "King Arthur's Socks" was Max Eastman. "These plays, with one exception, were written in Greenwich Village, and, with another exception, first performed there--some at the old Liberal Club, and others by the Provincetown Players. They are souvenirs of an intellectual play-time which, being dead, deserves some not-too-solemn memorial." [Author's prefatory note]. Very good .

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Book number: 30168

Catalogue: Arthurian Legends

Keywords: LITERATURE; ARTHURIAN; KING ARTHUR; HUMOR; THEATER; PLAYS; FLOYD DELL; KING ARTHUR'S SOCKS AND OTHER VILLAGE PLAYS; LEATHER BINDING; GREENWICH VILLAGE; PROVINCETOWN PLAYERS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Erskine, John

Galahad: Enough of His Life to Explain His Reputation

Indianpolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1926). (1926). Indianpolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1926). (1926). Good. - Octavo, dark blue cloth titled in red. The covers are lightly rubbed with some tiny white marks to the front cover; the spine is somewhat faded. 340 pp. There is light foxing to the endpapers & 2 rear blanks have been roughly opened; the page edges are very slightly darkened. Good.

A humourous version of the life of Sir Galahad. Good .

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Book number: 2814

Catalogue: Arthurian Legends

Keywords: ARTHURIAN; KING ARTHUR; ROUND TABLE; KNIGHT; GALAHAD; SIR GALAHAD; LITERATURE; AUTHOR; AMERICAN; HUMOR; JOHN ERSKINE.

Finlayson, John; editor

Morte Arthure

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1971. 1971. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1971. 1971. Very good. - Octavo, orange & white pictorial wraps. The wraps are very lightly rubbed & soiled with a price sticker on the front wrap. viii & 163 pp. Very good.

Second printing.

The "alliterative" Morte Arthure, published as part of the York Medieval Texts series of Middle English writing. The text of the poem is in Middle English. Very good .

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Book number: 2815

Catalogue: Arthurian Legends

Keywords: ARTHURIAN; KING ARTHUR; ALLITERATIVE MORTE ARTHURE; MEDIEVAL; MIDDLE ENGLISH; YORK MEDIEVAL TEXTS; JOHN FINLAYSON.

Gates, Robert J.; editor

The Awntyrs Off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne: A Critical Edition

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1969). (1969). Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1969). (1969). Very good. - Octavo, tan cloth titled in brown, in a price-clipped dw. The dw is very lightly soiled & slightly darkened. viii, [iii] & 267 pp. The top corners of the leaves are lightly creased through page 20. Illustrated with a B&W facsimile. Very good. Very good .

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Book number: 4295

Catalogue: Arthurian Legends

Keywords: ARTHURIAN; ROMANCE; MIDDLE ENGLISH; ALLITERATIVE REVIVAL; FOURTEEN CENTURY; 14TH CENTURY; MEDIEVAL; GAWAIN; SIR GAWAIN; KNIGHT; CRITICAL EDITION; ROBERT J. GATES.

Holbrook, Sabra

Sir Tristan of All Time

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux / An Ariel Book, (1970). (1970). New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux / An Ariel Book, (1970). (1970). Very good. - Octavo, golden yellow cloth titled in maroon on the spine in a pictorial dust wrapper. The dust jacket is slightly creased & soiled with a couple of tiny chips at edges. 196 pages, illustrated in black & white. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.

First edition. An exploration of the various Tristan legends, their origins and development through the ages. The author pays close attention to the versions circulated by the early troubadours as well as to Malory's and Spenser's. Those versions by Matthew Arnold, Sir Walter Scott, Tennyson, Swinburne and Wagner are all observed as are the modern versions by John Masefield and Edwin Arlington Robinson. Very good .

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Book number: 29020

Catalogue: Arthurian Legends

Keywords: ARTHURIAN LEGENDS; FOLKLORE; HOLY GRAIL MEDIEVAL; MIDDLE AGES; KING ARTHUR; KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE; KNIGHTHOOD; SWORD & SORCERY; BRITAIN; SCHOLARLY; LITERARY; STUDY; TRISTAN; TROUBADOUR; MALORY; SPENSER; SCOTT; TENNYSON; SWINBURNE; WAGNER; MASEFIE

Lacy, Norris J.; editor

The Arthurian Encyclopedia. Norris J. Lacy, Editor with Associate Editors Geoffrey Ashe, Sandra Ness Ihle, Marianne E. Kalinke, and Raymond H. Thompson

New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1986. 1986. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1986. 1986. Very good. - Large octavo, black cloth titled in gilt on spine & in gilt with image of a knight in armour stamped in gilt on front cover. xxxvii, [1] leaf & 649 pp. B&W illustrations. The bottom corners of the pages in the middle section of the book are slightly bowed, else near fine.

First edition. Very good .

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Book number: 24236

Catalogue: Arthurian Legends

Keywords: ARTHURIAN; REFERENCE; ENCYCLOPEDIA; NORRIS J. LACY; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Loomis, Laura Hibbard

Adventures in the Middle Ages: A Memorial Collection of Essays and Studies

New York: Burt Franklin, 1962. 1962. New York: Burt Franklin, 1962. 1962. Good. - (Selected Papers in Literature and Criticism Number 1). Octavo, dark blue cloth titled in gilt on spine. The covers are bumped, rubbed and lightly spotted. xvii & 308 pp. There is an owner's ink name & address on the front endpaper. B&W portrait frontispiece & 1 B&W plate. The contents are very good.

First edition.

Essays on medieval romances, Malory, Chaucer, Charlemagne, King Athelstan, etc. Good .

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Book number: 24237

Catalogue: Arthurian Legends

Keywords: ARTHURIAN; LITERARY CRITICISM; LITERATURE; MIDDLE AGES; ROMANCES; MEDIEVAL; CHANSONS DE GESTE; MALORY; CHAUCER; CHARLEMAGNE; ATHELSTAN; BRETON LAYS; ESSAYS; LAURA HIBBARD LOOMIS.

Luttrell, Claude

The Creation of the First Arthurian Romance: A Quest

(London): Edward Arnold, (1974). (1974). (London): Edward Arnold, (1974). (1974). Good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt on spine, in dark green pictorial dw. The dw is rubbed with some spotting internally. vii, [i] & 284 pp. The pages are somewhat darkened. Good.

First edition.

"An inquiry into the beginnings of Arthurian romance, centring on the first extant work in that tradition, Eric et Enide by Chretien de Troyes, and ranging over texts as far south as Italy and as late as Malory." [From the dw copy] . Good .

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Book number: 2842

Catalogue: Arthurian Legends

Keywords: ARTHURIAN; KING ARTHUR; ROMANCES; MIDDLE AGES; MEDIEVAL; CHRETIEN DE TROYES; ERIC ET ENIDE; THOMAS MALORY; CLAUDE LUTTRELL; REFERENCE; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

(McBride, Simon). Ashe, Geoffrey

The Landscape of King Arthur

New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1987). (1987). New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1987). (1987). Very good. - Square octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on spine, in color pictorial dw. The dw is very lightly rubbed. 191 pp. A small area of the surface of the front endpaper inner corners is rubbed away. Profuse B&W & color photographic illustrations by Simon McBride. There is a light remainder mark on the bottom edge, else near fine.

First American edition.

"A personal tour of England, Scotland and Wales by one of the world's leading Arthurian scholars" [from the dw copy]. Very good .

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Book number: 2844

Catalogue: Arthurian Legends

Keywords: ARTHURIAN; KING ARTHUR; CAMELOT; LEGENDS; ARCHEOLOGY; FOLKLORE; PHOTOGRAPHY; GEOFFREY ASHE; PHOTOGRAPHER; SIMON MCBRIDE; ENGLAND; SCOTLAND; WALES; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 1ST AMERICAN EDITION.

Paris, Paulin

Les Romans de la Table Ronde Mis En Nouveau Langage Et Accompagnes Des Recherches Sur L'Origine Et le Caractere de Ces Grandes Compositions. Tome Troisieme: Lancelot Du Lac

Paris: Leon Techener, Libraire, 1872. 1872. Paris: Leon Techener, Libraire, 1872. 1872. Fair. - Small octavo, three-quarter dark brown calf & brown cloth titled in gilt on spine between gilt-decorated raised bands in blind; marbled edges & endpapers. The binding is bumped & rubbed & the head of the spine is chipped with a short tear to the front joint. 384 & [3] pp. & 7-page publisher's catalogue. The front endpaper, flyleaf & half-title are detached with a small piece out of each front edge. The page edges are darkened & there is scattered foxing & staining. B&W frontispiece, 1 B&W plate & decorative initials. Ex-library with library bookplate on front pastedown, blind stamps on title, top margins of plates & first page of text, discard stamp on bottom margin of frontispiece & numerals stamped on 2 pages. Good working copy.

The text is in French. Fair .

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Book number: 24238

Catalogue: Arthurian Legends

Keywords: ARTHURIAN; ROMANCE; ROUND TABLE; KNIGHT; LANCELOT; LANCELOT DU LAC; FRENCH; PAULIN PARIS; ILLUSTRAITONS; PLATES; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.

(Rackham, Arthur). Pollard, Alfred W

The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table. Abridged from Malory's Morte D'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. 1927. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. 1927. Good. - Octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on spine & in black with vignette stamped in black on front cover. There are some small, light stains to the covers. xxiv, [1] leaf & 517 pp. B&W frontispiece, 6 B&W plates, 1 B&W head-piece & B&W pictorial initials by Arthur Rackham. The endpapers are somewhat darkened; the top edges of the prelims & the last 30 pp. are slightly rippled. Ex-library with hand-written letter on spine, ink notations on half-title & stain & rubbing where pocket or label has been removed from rear pastedown. Good.

An early reprint. Good .

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Book number: 24217

Catalogue: Arthurian Legends

Keywords: ILLUSTRATIONS; MYTHS; MYTHOLOGY; ARTHURIAN; ARTHUR; KING ARTHUR; KNIGHTS; ROUND TABLE; THOMAS MALORY; ALFRED W. POLLARD; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATOR; ARTHUR RACKHAM; PLATES; LITERATURE; LEGENDS.

Schaeffer, Albrecht

Parzival: Ein Versroman in Drei Kreisen

Leipzig: Insel-Verlag zu Leipzig, 1922. 1922. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag zu Leipzig, 1922. 1922. Good. - Octavo, three-quarters dark blue calf & marbled boards titled in gilt between gilt rules on spine; t.e.g. The boards are slightly warped with the front board rubbed & faded; the spine is rubbed & darkened. 633 pp. plus colophon & 1-page publisher's catalog. There is light foxing to the endpapers & prelims, else the contents are very good.

The text is in German. Good .

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Book number: 24240

Catalogue: Arthurian Legends

Keywords: ARTHURIAN; ROMANCE; PARSIFAL; GERMAN; ALBRECHT SCHAEFFER; INSEL-VERLAG.