Very Good+ Clean 189 pp. Hardcover First American Edition 1969. NOT A library book. Except for a little shelf soiling the book is Near Fine. A fine academic study of the Celtic sources of Tristan and Iseult. Pictish, Welsh, and Gaelic Arthurian aspects are examined. Very good inside and out.. First Edition. View More...
Collectible Fine First Edition Hardcover Fine Dust Jacket 260 pp. Prive intact NOT a library copy. Maps. A historical fantasy tour of the Celtic isles with a Greek from Byzantium with the skewed perspective of Gildas.See our Three Geese in Flight Scans for cover and Table of Contents. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
England: Cambridge University Press, 1950. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Hardcover Original Large Quarto Size (H.M.Chadwick Memorial Studies) Very Good Clean Condition. Separate Fold Outs NOT a library book. Clean pages No Jacket Among the 22 wonderful essays in this large illustrated collection "Notes On The Ogam inscriptions of Southern Britain" Kenneth H.Jackson, "Cantre'r Gwaelod and Ker Is" Rachel Bromwich","Gods and Heroes in Stone" H.R.Ellis Davidson, Sutton Hoo Ritual objects Norse isle of Man, Saxon Magic much more illus. First Edition. View More...
Fine Red Hardcover First 1972 Edition 87 pp Clean pages. Welsh one side English translations. English introduction. NOT a library copy. See our Three Geese in Flight Scans First Edition. View More...
Original Hardcover C.1833 N/D Amazing collection of essay, study and Ballad of the Arthurian Romance of Tristan and Iseult here "Sir Tristrem" attributed to Thomas of Ercildoune, or True Thomas but composed by Sir Walter Scott, Here Thomas who was taken by the Queen of Faerie as J.R.R. Tolkien speaks of in his "On Fairy Stories" Here Scotts actual ballad of Tristrem and long discussion of Scottish lore and True Thomas. Good+ shape Two Engravings 482 pp. NOT a library copy. Complete some foxing on engraving and some moisture bubbling on cloth but solid. NO Scent NO pockets See our scans. NO Wri... View More...
Very Good+ Very Good Mylar protected Dust Jacket. Edition Hardcover NOT a library copy! Clean pages. Hint of library scent. Many very clear photos of Celtic artifacts, Celtic weapons and Jewelry from Celtic Britain. It's artifacts, Celtic chariots. Celtic swords, weapons, Bronze age pottery, jewelry and metal work, scholarly text.Text and close up photos. Great for jeweler or Celtic reenact or..Forged in Fire participant. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Good Hardcover No Jacket Clean Pages. Cover fades and shelf wear Many black and white photos of Celtic Iron Age swords, torcs, shields, hill forts, chariots, Celtic pottery that can be reproduced. Good shape no writing good working copy! Clean pages NOT a library copy. hardcover working copy with large clear photos. First Edition. View More...
Very Good+ Hardcover Clean Illustrated B/W Not a library copy NO writing 93 pp. Goddess site in the West Country Bath sacred water to Celtic Britons and later Roman healing site. Hot springs and King Bladud and Geoffrey of Monmouth's account. Sacredness of water to the ancient Britons here. First Edition. View More...
Fine Hardcover.Very Good Dust Jacket .Clean 349 pp NOT a library copy. 4to Large excellent condition hardcover here with the uncommon dust jacket with modest wear and chips but Very good see photo. Great B/W illustrations in this study of Neolithic Stonehenge and Avebury to Celtic Bronze age Europe.Great photo of a museum reenactment of a Bronze age blonde woman wearing a Stonehenge era textile mini dress, Comprehensive in scope from the Megalithic to the Celtic as modern archaeology is coming to this evolution model.. Dust jacket present. View More...
Fine Hardcover and Near Fine Mylar Protected Dust Jacket Large 339 pp First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.. First American Edition. Excellent illustrations and photos accent this large archaeological study of Megalithic becoming Celtic Bronze age Europe by Stuart Piggott. Great photo of a bronze age young woman wearing a 'Stonehenge era' dress which reminds that these were people like us! . Dust Jacket bright In mylar and in far better then usually seen. NOT Price Clipped! NOT a library copy. Rare to find both book and dust jacket so nice. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Very Good+ Hardcover. Very Good Mylar Protected Dust Jacket First English Edition. NOT a library book! Price Intact. 27 pp.Text 73 Full page b/w Plates Celtic British artifacts displayed in Britains museums, by famed scholar and archaeologist Stuart Piggott and Celtic Boars, Bronze ceremony shields, Battle Torcs, bronze spiral arm bands, Ceridwen's Cauldron bronze flesh hooks..A few small d/j chips else very good and bright in mylar jacket. Clean pages Good triple spiral Newgrange Megalithic Goddess and Celtic artifact design. Uncommon with dust jacket Great b/w photographs of Celtic leaf sw... View More...
Collectible Clean Rare Blue Cardstock Binding 16mo. Educational Filmstrips Huntsville Texas. Paperback. and Printed Script English one side/ French facing about King Arthur in the Fairy forest of Broceliande in Brittany. 11 pp. For those who think they might have everything "Arthurian" Rare collectible little Arthurian book with content about the Lady of the Lake and Merlin's Well Fine clean NOT a library copy. See our Scans First Edition. View More...
Original Very Good+1902 Green Hardcover Gilt Cover Titles. 44 pp. Text. Foldout 13 Full page Illustrations of the long rows of free standing stones at Le Menec Carnac, in Armorica or today's Brittany Many b/w photos. Full two page pullout of the Cromlechs at Le Menec, Carnac. Many of Avebury and even the fallen giant 'Great Menhir Locmariaquer" in Brittany. NOT a library copy. Handsome inscription and signature on first free endpaper by author to "J. W. Ivimey" whose small bookplate graces Victorian endpaper. Clean No writing in text, a few pages loose, Gilt titles bright some cover darkening ... View More...
Collectible Original 1938 First Edition Large Quarto Very Good+ 301 pp. Clean Hardcover. B/W drawings and illus. NOT a library copy. "With the Authors Compliments" pasted on a inserted piece of paper on first free endpaper. Excellent red cloth Gilt spine titles. Illustrated history of the Cornish and Celtic Cross. The comprehensive illustrated Egyptian similarities and the Pagan and Christian symbolism and meaning. Tight binding with only a hint of shelf soiling. Great shape Impressive drawings of many Celtic Cornish Crosses. See our Three Geese In Flight Book Scans First Edition. View More...
Fine Trade Paperback. 12mo. Published in Cornwall 44 pp. First Cornish Edition Trade Paperback NOT a library copy Photos and Drawings Together with History and Folklore and Naturalism study of this Cornish bird. It is said that King Arthur returns, to his native Cornwall as a Chough. Clean and Fine. See our Scan First Edition. View More...
Original Fine 1912. Hardcover. 12mo. Bound in Red Buckram. Wonderful lithographs of haunting oceans and Armorican spirits hovering over the sea. Breton ballads collected and told. Photo of the author in Traditional Breton clothing as a frontis.The folklore of Brittany lies waiting within the songs that are tales. French text. Many two tone illustrations. Ex-Library Rebound in a scarlet library binding.This was in the library of the Seminaire Des Trois Rivieres in the Province of Quebec. See our Three Geese in Flight Scans Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Original 1891 Very Good Hardcover. Embossed Salmon Colored Boards with Gilt Embossed Breton Village on Cover and Gilt Woman's Head Coifs on the Spine. Tissue present on Frontis illustration Over Thirty Four Illustrations of Medieval Cathedrals Megaliths and Breton and Norman Clothing. Pardons and Celtic Breton Fountains Quimper, Auray folklore. Window in 19th century Normandy and Brittany in a very handsome volume NOT a library copy. Some foxing within and some small wear with a liitle loss at head of spine. Small private 19th c.name plate on inside board. Tight binding, many b/w illus. See ou... View More...
Original 1923 Near Very Good Limited Hand Numbered "134" Edition. Frontis Tintagel Illus. by Thomas Hardy Hardcover Illus. 76 pp. NOT a library copy. 76 pp A few dings and bumps rubbing with loss at top of spine. Clean pages, No writing in text NO signatures. Paper Clean Title patch on cover. Intact and clean. View More...
Wales: Llanerch, 1995. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. First Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. like new Celtic Cross and red Celtic knots on cover. First Thus .184 pp. Study of the Cornish Celtic church it's tonsure and difference with the English Roman church. Cornish Saints,Saint Michael's Mount.. View More...
Collectible Fine Decorative Hardcover Clean 168 pp. B/W and Color Celtic swords Iron working Central Europe and Celtic Spain A great window into a Celtic world more than St. Patrick's Day. Great shape Celtic studies since 1977 First Edition. View More...
Collectible First Edition Thus Fine Clean 131 pp. b/w illus. NOT a library copy. Plus advertisements.See our scan. Pagan Cryptozoology into Scottish lake Monsters Sea Serpents, Picts and Cornish cat sightings with naked witches running about. Wild View More...
Good- French Epic of Aymeri of Narbonne a descendent of the Makhir the Jewish descendant of King David the Charlemagne and Louis brought from Babylon to seed the line of European kings. Here we have a story in Christian detail of William. French text. 202 pp. NOT a library copy. Handsome cover. Pages clean but yellowing. 1930 A chip on paper spine and on the cover. Many b/w drawings chapter headings. Tight binding. See our photo of cover First Edition. View More...
Very Good Hardcover Very Good Dust Jacket. NOT a library book.Clean pages Light wear on rear of jacket One small chip.Book excellent. as is rest of dust jacket. Six essays from the Eighth Celtic Conference on Welsh Breton Irish Scottish culture in the Renaissance. Topics include discussion of Merlin s place in the Renaissance, also Welsh architecture in the 16th century with photos. Irish Gaelic culture in the Sixteenth century, the battle between Pryse (Price) vs (Vergil) over the Arthurian historicity of Geoffrey of Monmouth. Breton oral Fairy lore.. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Collectible Fine Hardcover Fine Dust Jacket Color Photos 128 pp. NOT a library copy. Price intact. Clean pages. Outstanding window into Bronze and Iron age Celtic Europe. Crisp scholarly study and truly fine photos of Celtic Geometric art in mirrors, and shields and sword sheaths. Iron age homes from the inside. Really good large quarto window. See our scans. Three Geese in Flight Celtic studies since 1977. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Original 1927 First Edition Hardcover Good+ Clean Pages 155 pp. NOT a library copy but soiling on spine and some shelf wear but binding complete and pages clean. "Pardons" Pilgrimages" "Breton Arthurian lore" with Morgana "Ker Ys" Celtic Saints at Cromlechs. Tight binding Three Geese In Flight Celtic Myth with passion since 1977 See our Scan of Cover, Spine and Table of Cpntents First Edition. View More...
Collectible Very Good+ Hardcover of Scottish Studies,1968. First Scottish Edition. 8vo. Original Hardcover NOT a library copy. Great collection of Celtic Studies Essays. b/w illus.'Historical Writing in Medieval Welsh' by Thomas Jones" Brut Y Tywysogion and Brut y Brenhinedd'"and "Gaelic Learned Orders in Medieval Scotland' by Derick S.Thomson''Indo European and Celtic''The Oral Tradition in Scottish Gaelic Poetry 'John MacInnes more. Except for some slight cover soiling Near Fine and internally very clean. See our scans. Belonged to Celtic Studies scholar with his small name stamp "William W.... View More...
Original 1896. The Isle of Man: Boosey & Co, Good-.Trade Paperback. First Thus. 8vo . Beautiful illustrated Manx Wrapper Cover Symbols.Manx Ships Sailing The Manx Triskell like symbol and Celtic knot cover. NOT a library copy. 143 pp, of musical notation and lyrics of traditional Manx music. Sadly spine badly chipped and front and back covers barely taped on. Still Cover handsome and music internally complete without writing in it. Important hard to find collection. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans First Edition. View More...
Fine Hardcover Good+ Mylar protected Dust Jacket Price intact NOT a library copy. Stated "First Edition" 1966 Clean 213 pp. NO signatures or writing. Jacket has chips and rubs at top and bottom of spine and slight creases and rubs at top of rear jacket, Clean Arthurian hardcover. Great tough Roman Soldier Arthur. One look at the rugged face of the author tells you all you need to know. See our Scans Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Original Rare First Edition 1897 Very Good. Green Hardcover. 8vo NOT a library copy. Three Color Embossed cover designs. See our Scans This is considered among the very best Folk-lore of French Quebec written in English. See Sail powered Canoes in our Scans. Church and Cross. Much of it's religious ritual and costume is as well. Quebecois marriage ceremonies, Quebec food French Canadians, or Quebecois music and folk song, architectures flax spinner. Clean pages. B/W photos. Bumped corners, small scratch on spine else very good, Clean pages. B/W Plates, Photos and Drawings of Quebec folk life.... View More...
Near Very Good Trade Paperback. First Canadian Edition. 4to Tall Trade Paperback 1970 Each Color Illustrated Page tells the history and adventures of Jacques cartier the Breton who sailed up the St.Lawrence to Quebec and Montreal Hochelaga and interacted with the Iroquois people. here retold and wonderfully illustrated. Some basic shelf wear Clean. NOT a library book. See our Scans. First Edition. View More...
