Original 1905 The Celtic Review 288 pp. Good+ Both covers present and attached spine paper chipping Tight binding NOT a library copy.Clean pages. See our scan Table of Contents on cover Amazing collection from the golden age of "Pan Celtic Culture" Scottish, Cornish, Breton, Irish, Welsh Naive maybe inspired truly and delightful.t"Treasure of The Fianna" "Cornwall a Nation" Henry Jenner More. NO writing in text. First Edition. View More...
Original First Edition Very Good Celtic Review Complete both covers present some spine paper chips. Clean 96 pp. NOT a Library copy. NO underlines Table of Contents on cover. Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton, Irish, Whitley Stokes. History of Brittany Henry Jenner. "An Outline of Breton History" Yvonne Josse (Irish Joyce!) A rare Celtic treasure chest. Wrapping with respect since our catalog days and our shop in 1977 See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans First Edition. View More...
Original Collectible Very Good+ Orange Old Cornwall Vol. V. No. 6 45 pp. Clean pages. NOT a library copy. Published Federation of Old Cornwall Societies (1955 Midsummer-Eve Bonfire at Pentewan By Christopher O' Halloran) A Redruth Journal Cornish Goddess. Part III more clean. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans First Edition. View More...
Collectible Fine Card Stock Paperback The Cornish Language Board, 1973. First thus 12mo R. Norton Nance. Abram Hag Ysak. Cornish Language With Facing English translation. NOT a library book No writing or underlines The myth of Joseph of Arimathea as a reflection the early influence of Jewish Christians from Syria if not Judea itself evangelizing Celtic Britain as potentially evidenced in this 12 pp. Abraham and Isaac text which comes to a head in the Easter Passover controversy Cornish and English facing page.Three Geese In Flight since offering Celtic studies with service. View More...
Collectible Near Fine Hardcover Near Fine Intact Dust Jacket NO Chips NOT a Institutional copy.177 pp. Six Essays on the rise of Celtic literature reaching a wider world because of Renaissance Printing The book studies each traditional Celtic culture from ireland, Cornwall, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, Isle of Man. Plus synapsis of other essays given at the Celtic Conference Excellent condition too. See our Scans for Table of contents and condition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Fine Hardcover and Fine Dust Jacket Not Price Clipped NOT a Library copy. Here is Arthur of the Cornwall and the Celtic West Country. Cadbury hillfort. Great Glastonbury's history with the king.A lot of good traditional material glossed over in other histories of Arthur particularly those projecting him for to the north. Three Geese In Flight Arthurian books since 1977 Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Cornwall: The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, 1955. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Fine Clean Condition Orange Card stock Covers These wonderful Cornish culture publications by R.Morton Nance help keep Cornish Celtic culture alive.46pp. Cornish language, folklore on bonfires. A Redruth Journal Part III, more. Handsome orange binding.Great shape. NOT a library book. First Edition. View More...
Two Original 1874 Quarto Size 1/4 Leather The Polychronicon Of Ranulphi Higden English Translation John Trevisa VOL.V & VI Latin one side English facing.These two heavy volumes of a nine volume set begins in the First Century and the formation of the Celtic Church speaking of Moses, the growth of Papal succession, as well as Arian and Pelagian challenges as well as the Roman Britain. But it is the Arthurian history where these come into prominence and early Celtic Kings. After Geoffrey of Monmouth when the later Medieval and Tudor criticism of Arthur and Merlin and the Celtic kings was promine... View More...
Original Blue 1854 Good- Hardcover Gilt Harp on cover. Vol. I. only. 400 pp. B/W Illus Frontis Portrait. Complete No writing in texts NOT a library copy which alone is rare. Front board leans forward Gilt spine lettering. Thomas Price, Bardic name, "Carnhuanawc" was no Iolo Morganwg. Rev. Price was honest with his Celtic studies work while a product of his time. Here his far sighted understanding of Welsh Arthurian legend place in European literature as a humanizing presence and in respecting woman was far advanced in it's comparison with Arabic, and Classical Latin Literature. Carnhuanawc als... View More...
Very Good Hardcover. Good+ Dust Jacket Small on front cover and One in back of the jacket else great. See our Scans NOT price clipped First American Edition. Pauline Ellison B/W drawings 8vo Clean 170 pages. NOT a library copy. Medieval Celtic Fantasy novel! on Cornwall. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Very Good+ Hardcover Very Good+ Dust Jacket. First American Edition. 8vo Celtic and Megalithic Britain, its pre-Christian sacred sites crafts, hillforts, metalwork, pictographs, social life. Great color photos of hillforts, rock carvings.Also a Celtic guide book with "Places to visit" not just typical ones as well. Plus how hill forts are built how the dead were buried Stuff you never see.151pp. NOT a library copy. color photos. Large handsome book. See our Three Geese in Flight Scans Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Very Good Hardcover Very Good Dust Jacket Clean Pages. A few rubs and small little jacket tears But no real chips.A decent good clean copy First University of Chicago Edition. The best all around study of the famous folklorists and collectors of Celtic folklore, Scottish, Welsh, Irish and English folktale. Extensive folklore bibliography on Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, Cornish Collections. From Douglas Hyde to Alexander Carmichael to Sir John Rhys.,to the Campbells and ones you may never have heard.The best if you are a mad collector of Celtic and Norse and English Fairy and Folklore like ... View More...
Collectible Fine Trade Paperback. First English Edition NOT a library book. Clean pages free of markings. Study combines serious research with notes and spiritual perspective on Welsh Arthurian Spoils of Annwn and the spiritual Merlin mysteries at Tintagel Cornwall with German Rudolf Steiner Platonic star cosmology in a organic way. Great condition very enjoyable Arthurian speculation. Three Geese In Flight 40 years selling Celtic Arthurian books We wrap in paper before packing to protect the cover. First Edition. View More...
Collectible First Edition Fine Hardcover Fine Dust Jacket. True St Martin First Edition NOT the smaller cheaper Dorset remainder reprint. Color plates. Clean 209 pp. Tight binding, no marks. NOT a library copy. NO Chips NO writing anywhere. NOT Clipped. Great academic book for the general reader and the professional to pick up new things on the Arthurian history, the legend and it's texts. He offers the theories on the historical Arthur and presents summary and history of all the major French, Scottish, Dutch, German, English, and Welsh Arthurian romance. Great color plates. Highly recommend t... View More...
Collectible Near Fine Original Hardcover Green Cloth Embossed Gilt Cover and Spine Illustrations. Clean 418 pp. Frontis illus. George Cruikshank with intact tissue. Tight binding. 8vo. NOT a library copy. NO binding cracks. Old private signature on preliminary. with the remains of a front endpaper bookplate. Cornish Arthurian lore, Giants, Tin Miners, Celtic Seasonal Festivals, Piskies, Mermaids, Giants, Spectral Coaches, Demons, Fortune telling, Charms, The Elfin Creed Of Cornwall. Excellent example of this important collection of Cornish Fairy and Folk lore. Precise Cornish Arthurian tradit... View More...
Collectible Fine Hardcover Near Fine-Fine Dust Jacket Clean 107 pp. NOT a library book. Price intact. Simply a hint of cover soiling. See Cover Scan. But pretty close to Fine Dust Jacket. Tight binding. Wonderful Early Medieval adventure from the French translation of the Charlemagne cycle of myths and battles with Saracens. Young adult and adult who loves exciting heroic saga with a young Danish Knight who went to Avalon with Morgan La Fay. But here is his heroic life that attracted Morgan the Fee to him. Sixteen great B/W illus. See Scans below. Wrapping with care since 1977 Dust jacket pres... View More...
Fine Clean Hardcover and Collectible Dust Jacket U.S.A: Harvard University Press, 1967. First American Edition. 8vo Clean NO writing 173 pp Serious Study of Celtic Cornish Theological literature from the post 'Celtic church'. Important Cornish biblical cycle studied. Very light wear.The Celtic speaking Church had a deep and lasting interest in Hebrew texts even into this later period in Cornish speaking Cornwall. Bibliology Like new book and jacket. a library book. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Very Good Hardcover. 1924. Illus. by b/w Photos. First Thus. 12mo Hardcover Clean very good condition. Many great b/w photos of Celtic Brittany accent this charming journey book. Breton costume, architecture, roads, Pilgrimages, Pardon schedules, map end papers. See our Scans View More...
Collectible Fine First Edition Paperback Clean 143 pp. b/w illus. NOT a library copy. See our Scan. Examination of sacred sciences extending thru Caldey Island of the Celtic Saints. Lesser known work of John Michell First Edition. View More...
Rare Original French 1942 Large Disbound Paper Wrappers.Paris: Aux Horizons De France, 1942. Illus. by Color and b/w Illus. Fair+. Wrappers. Limited Edition. NO Library markings 4to Much Wear. First French Edition. Several Full Color Full Page Plates wonderful color on these full page illustrations of "Le Fees'."Le Diable Agriculteur," Other two tone and b/w more in this 97pp quarto French language text of the Legends and folklore of Medieval France, Saint Martin, Merlin, Ys, Fees, Back paper cover gone, some pages dis bound. War time paper. but present which makes the Color plates open to fra... View More...
Collectible Fine Illustrated Hardcover with Fine Mylar Protected Unclipped Dust Jacket First Edition. Cornell University Press, 1988. 1st Edition. 8vo Translated from the French This study looks at British, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Dutch and some of the lesser known megaliths in countries not usually associated with them. Such as Portugal, Israel or India, or even Ethiopia! Scale plans. Photos NOT a library copy Collectible Fine condition. Fine Mylar protected Dust Jacket Three Geese in Flight wrapping first in brown paper to preserve the book. See our Scans Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Original First Edition 1957 Random House Hardcover and Dust Jacket Includes Eight great Medieval Arthurian and Saxon, Norse and Norman Romances edited and translated by none other than Arthurian scholar and founder of the International Arthurian Society Roger Sherman Loomis and Laura Hibbard Loomis. Here with introduction is Havelok the Dane, Sir Orfeo, Perceval, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, more see our Scan for Table of contents. A number of academic annotations and underlines by a unknown academic hand. Dust jacket NOT price clipped has a number of chips and shelf wear but quite intact ... View More...
New York: Random House, 1938. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Good+ Hardcover and Dust Jacket Stated First Edition. Clean Pages Dust Jacket several chips and rubs but still Good. Picture of Mount St. Michel on Dust Jacket and on End papers and two tone on hardcover. Magic realism novel set on and around this Breton/Norman holy hill. NOT a library copy. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Fine First Edition Hardcover Fine Collectible Dust Jacket. NOT Price Clipped NOT a library copy. Except for a previous owners signature on first free endpaper. No writing in text. Page turning cross between a travel book through Celtic Brittany and a research study of Celtic Sixth Century! Arthurian Brittany and the historical King Arthur. Gildas, Cai, Tristan, Myrddin. With Arthurian history books I believe it is the question that count more than the answer. Here the quest is a delight. Collectible condition Book and Jacket. See our Scans for condition and Table of Contents. Makes any journey... View More...
Fine Hardcover and Fine Dust Jacket.First Edition.Clean 176 pp.Princeton Univ.Press, 1989.1st Edition. 8vo .NOT a library book Clean free of writing No underlines. No book plates Illus. Enigmatic archaeological Druid mystery Celtic Studies since 1977 we wrap first in brown craft paper to protect jacket. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
U. S. A.: Bell, 1972. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Blue Hardcover.Silver titling on spine.Tight very good shape with only shelf wear. 196pp.b/w illus.Square dancings roots with 'Wicca' and dos si dos back to back dancing in a stone circle. Nine maidens,Pixies,Old River Gods and White Ladies, etc Good stuff in here,. First Edition. View More...
Collectible Fine Blue Thick Hardcover. 435 pp. Study of Breton, Welsh Arthurian and Old English sources and their relationship to Malory and Tennyson. Much Merlin Mystical and Avalon material. Great condition clean pages.1965 hardcover reprint of the 1895 edition Fine NOT a library copy. A bargain. See our Scans Arthurian books our passion since 1977 First Edition. View More...
Good+ NOT a library copy. Wear on back cover rubs and a little loss. Light wear on cover. See our scans Clean pages. Color Illustrated and retold by Jane Sampson the story of Celtic Prince Bladud from Geoffrey of Monmouth tale of Bath and the sacred Geomantic waters of the Celtic Goddess and Roman told as a children's illustrated book First Edition. View More...
London: Elliot Stock,, 1892. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Hardcover1902 Original Edition NOT a library bookBeautiful floral Victorian end papers. NO book plates NOT a library copy. Clean interior tight binding, bumped board edges. Excellent Study of the Folklore and speech of Devon, what was the old Celtic southwest, Arthur's country as well as Sir Francis Drake. Glossary, Dictionary, phraseology. Handsome volume in good solid clean shape. . Dust jacket present. View More...