Author: Kenneth G. T. Webster, Deborah Champion Webster, Foreword
Title: Guinevere a Study of Her Abductions
Description: Massachusetts, The Turtle Press, 1951. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine Original Green Card Stock Covers. Prospectus Ephemera "Best Regards, D. W" (Deborah Webster) included with Collectible Book Clean, tight 172 pages. Free of Writing. Some sunning to cover. Toning on inside rear board. B/W Drawings and Forward by author's wife Deborah Champion Webster. Kenneth Webster produced the first English translation of the brilliant Middle High German 'Lantzelet' (Lancelot). In this book he shows the Celtic Irish and Welsh Fairy element in Queen Guinevere. His brilliant twist is that the abductors were bringing her back to her rightful king and husband in Faerie as in the Irish tales"Wooing of Etain. Here his noble wife in true Arthurian Breton Lai, heroic manner both in the editing, and championing and then in bringing this limited edition study of the Celtic Fairy abduction theme into print. Includes her introduction, and drawings with her signed initials. Excellent condition, alas sunning as is almost always the case on spine and lightly on cover. See photo. Else it would be "Fine" tight, clean pages. See OUR Three Geese In Flight Scans. Ill.: Deborah Webster. Near Fine .

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