Good+ Original Paperback.: S.P.C.K., 1958. 12mo B/W Illustrated Card Stock Covers Clean Pages NOT a library book. Just age wear along repaired spine. Wonderful collectible little illustrated stories about Early Medieval Arthurian era Welsh Saints i.e. Cadoc, Illtyd. Story of Nest and Maelgwn. Melangell But what makes this also unique is the b/w illus. Celtic Christian wonder collected about these Welsh Saints. 57 pp. See our scans Four full page illus.Three Geese in Flight Celtic Books from a Western Shore View More...
Fine Clean First Cornish Edition. NOT a library copy. 44 pp b/w illus. Photos. Published by the great Cornish Lodenek Press. Passionate intelligent account on the Monastic foundation and the Celtic Church and it's Saints, the Oratory and it's placement and controversial history. See our Scans First Edition. View More...
U.S.A: Paris 1989., 1989. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First American Edition. 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. 398pp. vg. Pages and pages of Arthurian books reviewed. Every book in English and French published in and around 1989. Great resource by an organization, that I am proud to be memeber of as noble as its subject.Blue stiff card boards 28 years selling Arthurian Books. First Edition. View More...
Collectible Near Fine Hardcover Near Fine Mylar Protected Dust Jacket Price intact U.S.A: Doubleday, 1959. Clean 380 pp. Hardcover. Handsome Mylar Covered Dust Jacket. Only a few rubs. NO Chips NOT a library copy NOT Price clipped.. First American Printing. 8vo Early Arthurian 'historical' novel. Hard to find this Arthurian novel as here NOT the club edition copy. Clean pages, no writing or marks. Three Geese In Flight Arthurian books since 1977 with unmatched customer service packed well. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
First Edition Hardcover Good No Dust Jacket. Clean pages 380 pp. NOT a library copy. Some cover soiling and age fades but a solid clean tight copy for reading a First Edition lesser know action packed Arthurian novel, of 1950s American, Arthurian novel. See our Three Geese In Flight Book Scans. NO stickers or spine numbers! First Edition. View More...
Very Good+ Complete Clean 329 pp. University of Wales Press, 1977.Academic Paperback.NOT a library copy. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Large Paperback the Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies. Essays within 52pp on "A Transformational view of Welsh relative Clauses "By Gwenllian Nair David Dumville on "Palaeographical Considerations in the dating of Early Welsh Verse' 11pp,D.Ellis Evans "Some Celtic Forms in Cant" Michael Winterbottom 6pp "A Celtic 'Hyper baton" Much more Great clean shape. complete 329 Pages Clean Three Geese in Flight Celtic studies since 1977 packed well. First Edition. View More...
Original Hardcover Very Good 1933 Seventh Edition. NOT a library copy. Clean 116 pp. 12mo. No writing in text. Just a early owners signature on first free endpaper. Brown boards and gilt title and design on spine. A slight hint of fades on top right front cover. None on back cover and none on spine. Dorothy Macardle was a Irish imprisoned patriot and literary intellectual who wrote great Irish fantasy and ghost tales. She was politically astute and unlike others in her party she opposed the Fascist mind and body. Beautiful as Guinevere or Deirdre. Here is a little selected Malory Morte D'Arthu... View More...
Collectible Fine Decorative Hardcover Clean 546 pp Published in Germany Over Thirty Academic essays by a fine assortment of Scholars in English on the truest king that sat a horse and held a queen. See our Three Geese in Flight Scans below for Table of Contents Essays and Collectible condition hardcover Celtic and Arthurian books our passion since 1977 First Edition. View More...
Collectible Near Fine Large Quarto Paperback. Clean Second Edition Published in Israel Printed in the Netherlands. Complete 193 pp Issue. Clean NOT a library copy. NO writing! The 13 page "A Letter Dated 1577 From Mercator to John Dee By E. G. R. Taylor" is among 193 page complete issue. Many other great geography essays within. See Table of Content page in our Scans. Many Maps. The featured rare essay about a Arthurian impetus for the exploration and founding of America written by Dutch Geographer Mercator in the Tudor/Elizabethan era! Fine clean condition. See our Three Geese in Flight Scans... View More...
Wales: Y Cymmrodor, 1987. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Thus. 12mo - over 6 - 7" tall. A Welsh Version Of The Birth Of Arthur Y Cymrrodor XXIV 1913 247-264pp. Excerpted seventeen pages in Welsh and English translation of a late Welsh Medieval birth tale of King Arthur. This offprint was apparently copied from 1913 Y Cymmrodor in the 1980s Loose 17 pages in plasticine. First Edition. View More...
California: University of California Press , 1984. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fine Collectible Hardcover and Fine Mylar Covered Dust Jacket Ten Really Good Essays on Drake and his amazing journey. 'Drake and Plymouth' Crispin Gill 'The Cartography of Drake's Voyage' Helen Wallis 'Drake in the South Seas' William A.Lessa 'Elizabethan Navigation' David W.Waters Drake folklore Drake's drum, Roanoke, John Dee. Much more Color Fold Out Map of Drake. Sharp Collectible Condition NOT a library book..Much on Arthurian Nova Albion Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Somerset: Glastonbury advertising association, 1979. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Color Card Stock Binding. Color Photo Glastonbury hill and Saint Michael Tor on Cover. Guide to Glastonbury both religious and secular, monastic and Otherworld. Historical essays as well as interesting advertising. Clean very good shape. First Edition. View More...
Complete Original Issue 68 pp Issue Fine Condition: The Folklore Society, 1974. Fine orange wrappers. First Edition. 8vo. 73-144 pp. NOT a library copy Complete Original FOLKLORE 85 Summer 1974 "Gawain Against Arthur "Raymond H.Thompson I focus also "Folklore and History" H.R.Ellis Davidson."Tarn Wadling and Gervase of Tilbury' s R.C.Cox "The Allendale Fire Festival in Relation to Contemporary Social Setting" Venetia Newall "The Story of the Old Farmer's Son" Nurallah Sahraii "The Vanishing Seabirds in the Wanderer" Marijane Osborn More. Excellent fine collectible condition. Three Geese in Fli... View More...
Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1966. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 1st Edition. Very Good Clean Speculum A Journal Of Mediaeval Studies Volume XLI, Number I January 1966 208pp. Six Essays Of Medieval Studies Including, "Malory's Balin and the Question of Unity in the Morte Darthur" as well as "Amor inordinata in Hartmann's "Gregorius" H.B.Willson ""Him Seo Wen Geleah: The Design for Irony in Grendel's last Visit" Richard N.Ringler "Intrigue,Schism and Violence Among the Hospitallers of Rhodes: 1377-1384" Anthony Luttrell Even more. More, plus Book reviews, etc advertiseme... View More...
Collectible Fine Hardcover And Fine Mylar Protected Dust Jacket. Price intact First American Edition. 8vo Great essay on 'Le Roman De Tristan', another on 'Norman Literature and Wace" another on Dante, more .Urban Tigner Holmes, Jr Philip W. Damon Stephen G. Nichols, Jr Great condition Medieval criticism Collectible Hardcover and Dust Jacket Bright In Mylar. Not price clipped but someone darkened the price, NOT library book See our Three Geese In Flight Scans for Table of contents and cover. Mylar reflection from camera Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
SALE Collectible Original Two Cornish Ceremonial Gorsedd Booklets. One is a 12 pp Ceremonies of the Bards of Cornwall and the Second a 8 pp Programme of the Gorsedd of Cornwall in Cornish and English facing No date but Circa. September 21st 1928 from internal data. Both have the three line Awen sign. Cornish Arthurian material in Ceremonies. The Ceremonies booklet clean Very Good. The Programme has pencil writing "daughter of the Crow" with more pencil and some soiling. Sold as one. NOT library copies. See Three Geese In Flight Book Scans First Edition. View More...
First Edition Very Good+ Decorative Hardcover Time-Life The Enchanted World Series. Numerous Color Illustrated Pages. NO Markings just a hint of cover fading. NOT a Library copy. Clean Very Nice handsome copy. The Fall Of Camelot The Enchanted World Series is visually a treat for the eyes of the defenders of Camelots walls. Old Color Illustrations from illustrated classics of Malory and Tennyson, along with some really nice new color paintings made just for this volume. (See our Scan)The 143 page historical text is as well done as well. Terrific and well worth adding to your Arthurian collecti... View More...
Original Fine Clean Complete First 1970 Edition of Welsh The-Transactions-Of-The-Honourable-Society-Of-Cymmrodorion Session 1969 Part II Includes important essay. "Arthurian Onomastics" by Melville Richards. A examination of Welsh Arthurian names in the Place Names of Wales. Also "The Struggle For the Welsh Language: Some Pre-Census Reflections" Also complete "Captain James Cook and 'New Wales' John Thomas. 169-346 pp.More Three Geese in Flight Celtic and Arthurian Books wrap with care since 1977 See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans for condition and table of contents First Edition. View More...
Very Good+ Trade Paperback French Language 156 pp. Brittany: Coop Breizh, 1996. B/W Illus. Color Photos. First Edition. Extraordinary color photo filled Arthurian and Myrddin/Merlin literary tour the Fairy Forest of Broceliande and Celtic Brittany. Little known Breton and French Arthurian books are discussed and their associations with Arthur and Merlin and Morgan Le fay. French text Clean.pages. NOT a Library books. Even if you do not read French the color photos of Broceliande touched by Faerie See our scans First Edition. View More...
Original 1871 Collectible Edition of the 1867 First Edition. Very Good Full Red Leather Hardcover Clean 208 pp. Handmade beautiful red endpapers. Rubs on boards. Red dye rubs. Handsome and tight binding. NO Writing in text. NO Signatures. NOT a library copy. See our Scans. An early English fifteenth or late fourteenth century account of Arthur's war with Lucius Emperor and the King's need to return to battle with Mordred from in the library of Lincoln Cathedral. First Edition. View More...
Fine First Welsh Edition. Clean 310 pp.Pages Tight Binding. Both a Biography and a study of the Celtic Culture of Tudor Wales. A good deal of late Medieval Welsh Arthurian lore here. Political life with England at the door 309 pp Clean NOT a library copy. Since 1977 wrapping in brown paper before packing First Edition. View More...
Original 1849 Volume Book 1 and 2 Two Hardcover Volumes Bound in One. Near Fine Hardcover. 12mo. Clean 308 pp. Tight binding. NOT a library copy. Some age foxing else wonderful. Wild Arthurian fantasy epic of Arthur's conquest of the Arctic with Norse myth and Arthur on a Immram. Loki makes an appearance. Lord Lytton was a opium smoking inspirer and author of Vril of the Victorian Occult. Sir Lytton supplies a summary in form of an "Argument" at beginning of every chapter which helps (For me) with Victorian Verse. Wonderful story really. Tight clean and as Near Fine as can be. See our Three Ge... View More...
U. S. A.: Garland, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First U.S.Edition. 8vo. Fine Clean Collectible Hardcover Excellent condition NOT a library book. Premier Arthurian essay series. This has 15 essays by different scholars. i.e. Fanni Bogdanow, Elspeth Kennedy, Raymond Thompson, James P.Carley, John Leland and Polydore "The Battle of the Books" Much more. Collectible condition hardcover.. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Fine Trade Paperback. First Edition Trade Paperback Reprint Edited with introduction by the knowledgeable Arthurian scholar Raymond H. Thompson 8vo Strong colorful illustration on cover of this classic historical Dark Age novel of the Dark Ages Leader of Battles King Arthur. Much like "Sword At Sunset". Great unread condition. No markings. NOT a library copy. Since 1977 we wrap our books first in brown paper. View More...
London: Macdonald, 1944. Book. Good. Hardcover. First English Edition. 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. Rare original 1944 Hardcover Clean pages NOT a library book. Arthurian historical novel written during World War II in Britain and reflects Winston Churchill's belief that the Nazis were the new Saxons and Arthur fought the First Battle of Britain" The front cover has serious fading on blue hardcover.The back cover is fine but the front cover really faded Else good tight binding Internally clean. The cover fade makes this rare Arthurian historical novel a great deal. First Edition. View More...
Original Two Folio Volumes Bound in One Hardcover Volume 1802 and 1808 112 pp. Two complete books. Rubs and fading to cover and spine. Board edges rubbed. Binding tight text. "Notes and comments hand written by Edward Jones with annotations "Arthurian Triads", "Bard to the Prince" Bardic Remains" is an alternative to Iolo Morganwg school being a Full page hand Colored Plate and b/w plate. "Account of Taliesin" "A Dialogue Between Arthur And Gwenhwyvar""Early Learning Among the Ancient Britons"Also "Musical And Poetical Relicks Of The Welsh Bards" A treasure of Harp music and Mabinogi First Br... View More...
Original Rare First Edition 1885 D. Appleton And Company Brown Hardcover Gilt embossed cover and spine lettering. 788 pp. Tight binding. Clean pages NOT a library copy. NO writing in text. NO Signatures. Tight binding. Endpapers clean. Comprehensive study of Buddhist Chinese Exploration of "Fu-Sang" the Chinese equivalent of Avalon of Tir-na-Og. A truly fascinating truth this Chinese exploration of the West Coast of California, Oregon, Washington State and Vancouver by legend took place in the Fifth to Sixth century, the same time as King Arthur's supposed voyage to Avalon or Celtic Land of Wo... View More...
U.S.A.: Univ of Notre Dame, 1965. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition Trade Paperback Very Good Clean Free of markings Tight binding Excellent anthology of scholarly essays. Four Arthurian,"The Predicament of Gawaine"George Engelhardt R.H. Green "Gawain's Shield and the Quest for Perfection"P.E.Tucker "The Place of th e Holy Grail in Le Morte D'Arthur" D.S.Brewer a study of Malory Morte Arthur. . First Edition. View More...
SALE Good+ Hardcover. First. U.S.Edition. Thomas Seltzer New York- 1920 Hardcover First American Edition Great Tale in Romantic Verse of the Love that lasts into our collective dream. Great Arthurian epic poetry Good+, Clean pages, Pencil writing at front free endpaper. None in text. A little shelf handling wear with fading at spine head without loss a same at bottom with a tiny tear at bottom. See our scans. NOT a library copy, Three Geese In Flight Arthurian and Celtic studies since 1977 years wrapping first in brown paper to protect the covers. First Edition. View More...