Original Massive 1920 635pp leather bound volume of Robert Burns poetry, ballads Fair+.Hardcover. First Thus. 4to Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1920..Frontis Full Page Steel etching of a beautiful woman. Chips and wear to leather binding. Front cover detached but present. Read cover shaky, but intact and pages complete still a good huge old working reading copy with a comprehensive selection. As is, Wonderful and a good deal just for the full page steel etching. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Original 235-248 pp."Notes-On-Celtic-Cauldrons-Of-Plenty-And-The-Land-Beneath-The-Waves" From the Original 1913 Anniversary Papers by Colleagues and Pupils of George Lyman Kittredge hardcover. NOT reprinted, single 8 pp.copy. Arthur Brown was a champion of the Celtic subtext of much of the Medieval Arthurian legend. Perhaps not as well known as Roger Sherman Loomis who he shared many of the brilliant insights and inherent flaws.The Fairy tradition of the Caer Sidhe (Welsh variant) within the Spoils of Annwn and the four jewels of the Tuatha de Dannan are explored. Dis bound with some page loss... View More...
First Edition 1944 Hardcover Published by the Dublin Times Fair+ Reading copy 91 pp. Pages clean but much of leather spine chipped away. Boards loose but attached.Title on cover clear. NOT a library copy. A fine reading copy only anthology of Anglo-Irish poetry from the heart of the men and women of 1940's Ireland. No writing in book First Edition. View More...
Houghton Mifflin, 1957. Original Hardcover Book. Fair.+ Second American Edition. 8vo Original Hardcover Don't you wish this doctor made house calls? Educational Edition 61pp."For Beginning Readers in a circle cocked to the left at 60 degrees. Not laminated. Flat original paper cover Three signatures. Hard blue cloth covers. Black masking tape on spine. Rubbed board edges so cardboard shows thru. Complete.Original endpapers. Part of the hat illus worn and part of cats hand. Inside clean except for child's name. Despite rough condition rare and still nice original..See Our Scans. Three Geese in... View More...
Original Edinburgh: T&T.Clark, 1872+.Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo Original 1872 Edition of Anti-Pelagian Texts by Saint Augustine. Fair+ Good-condition Hardcover Working copy only. Fading and some discoloration on boards. Frays on edges of spine. Ex-Library markings Underlining and highlighting on several pages of preface.Text itself good Complete text. Rare 1872 original brown cloth.Gilt embossed design on brown cover Tight binding reading copy of this attack on the underpinnings of Celtic Christianity. First Edition. View More...
Original Fair+ 1912 Thick Red Hardcover 581 pp. Faded and scratched spine and split between spine and board.Yet binding tight, pages complete. Pencil marks and checks with writing on a fifth of book. One of most comprehensive and little known study of Welsh and Breton pilgrimages and voyages. Medieval Bardic poetry Arthurian Holy Grail Text at Glastonbury Ystoria Olew Bendigedig The Story of the Blessed Oil with Text and Hebrew Sacred Apocrypha Monastic Brittany and Joseph of Arimathea and Knight Templars. B/W photos. So comprehensive in little seen content. Despite flaws in this thick study ... View More...
Original 1865 French Edition Front and rear boards detached. Four raised spine bands and leather title patch on spine clear. Fair+.Hardcover. Second French Edition. 12mo Spine one inch chip at top and bottom/ Pages clean and free of marks. Covers detached. Great price for early 1865 original edition.Three Geese in Flight Celtic studies since 1977 View More...
ORIGINAL French 1861 Fair+ to Good- Condition Paris: Didier Et, Original 1861. Boards missing, Original French text complete 488 pp. First Edition. 8vo Text intact except blank preliminaries. Breton and French Arthurian material. Classic Hersart De Villemarque Romans de la Table Ronde. Both front and back boards missing spine present, title page and text has foxing. internally complete and tight free of writing! Missing covers create great price! Ex- Library markings Original 1861 Edition French Text. NO underlines. Great price for Original 1861 Villemarque Breton Arthurian tales. See our Scan... View More...
Original 1930 Hardcover: John Murray, 1930.Fair+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo Original 1930 Hardcover. Dolmen picture on Title page. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans First English Edition Fair+ light Fraying, boards soiling and splits along side cloth. Boards lean Binding tight. Pages clean and tight no writing inside. pages clean. Good reading copy of original edition. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans First Edition. View More...
Original Mass Market Paperback Forty-third Printing. These were the first to feature Tolkien's Artwork on cover. Here in rough condition but pages clean free of writing and NOT a library copy small chip on bottom of spine else tight binding reading copy of a particular era and later edition. See our Three Geese in Flight Scans View More...
U.S.A.: D.C.Heath, 1905. Book. Fair+. Hardcover. First Thus. 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. Hardcover Original 1905 Edition. Many little b/w drawings in Public domain. The illustrated cover is very badly soiled. Binding tight, No underlines, a few tears on several pages. Many wonderful b/w drawings fill this old 57pp. collection of three English fairy stories from the pen of Jean Ingelow Three great English Fairy tales by this storyteller. One is a Elizabethan English fairy tale. Copyright free little line drawings. Again seriously soiled covers, otherwise light wear Internally tight. Nice b/w draw... View More...
New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1860. Book. Fair+. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Original Hardcover. Amazing rare epic tale of Orange County New York from the early Native Lenape days to the Dutch and on to Joseph Brant an the Revolutionary war battle of Minisink! 180pp, map and 4 plates. Publisher's brown textured cloth, cloth on spine chips and wear. Book is complete original binding, and both boards are intact but is in need of being rebound. Page toning (Yellowing) Internally tight and clean Rare New York, New Jersey Lenape myth and Revolutionary war Orange County ... View More...
Fair+Hardcover Fair+ Dust Jacket NOT a library copy but damp stain inside of jacket touching book. NO scent NO krinkle just aesthetics. Clean 254 pp.Tight pages. See our Three Geese in Flight Scans for stated condition Dust jacket present. View More...
SALE Budapest: Ater Es Forma Kiadasa (Space and Form), Original 1929. Book. Illus. by b/w. Fair+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Rare Original 1929 First Hungarian text Edition of This Bauhaus Art Book.Text and 150 B/W Illustrations. Ater Es Forma Published Space and Form in English. Fair+ Covers very soiled. Spine missing Covers present and attached. Interior pages Clean. NOT a library copy. No writing in book. Cover soiled and faded Interior clean, cover and binding in Fair+ condition. Rare original Bauhaus classic.. First Edition. View More...
Original C.1880 Edition Hardcover Fair Condition Only. Union Publishing. Numerous Steel Engravings. Fair. Hardcover. Sold By Subscription Only. Original Nineteenth Century Hardcover. Gilt stamped Calf, gilt designs Illustrated with striking Irish women with tissue. Dozens b/w illustrations. Foxing. Fair This has more flaws then I will name but it is a bargain early nineteenth century copy. No title page. Covers present and attached but spine leather seam split in spine at front board.Really great bargain because of flaws. Gilt Celtic design on Front Calf board. Fair only. NOT a library book th... View More...
Original Hardcover Fair Condition only, 422 pp Vol.1. Binding tight but splitting along outer seams. NO writing. NOT a library copy. NO underlining but a reading copy. Some Krinkled pages. See our scans. But complete pages clean. This is a window into what is "Kosher" and what is not. How to stand and to honor the right side ahead of the left and why. But not merely law, food. Ethics, business, thoughts even. Prayers with sensitive, kindness first importance for a holy man. A Sacred book with instructions. Book As is. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans First Edition. View More...
Journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association, 1854. Book. Fair+. Original Wraps. 1st. Welsh Edition. 8vo Original 1854 Wraps. Much Wear. 1st. Welsh Edition. 71 pp total Includes Final installment 'Vestiges of the Gael in Gwynedd' 10 pp. in Archaeologia Cambrensis A Record of the Antiquities of Wales and It's Marches" and " October 1854 Rear blank paper missing front title cover present.Fair-good,tight also 'St.Asaph's Cathedral' 11 pp' "The Roman Remains in Wales" 10 pp. 'The Insurrection of Maelgwn Vychan' 11 pp. 71 pp.all together.Complete. See our Scans First Edition. View More...
Original Fair+ 1895 England: Early English Text Society, Paperback. Fourth English Edition. 8vo Original Thick Complete 1895 Edition The Blue paper cover binding of the Early English Text Society. 358 pp.xcviii Chipping on the bottom of blue paper binding covers and top of spine. Binding tight, missing first blank preliminaries pages clean working copy only of this medieval English text. Original edition bargain NO writing inside NOT a library copy.A good solid working copy Unmarked. As is. See our Three Geese in Flight Scans 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...
Original 1902 Burne Jones Three Frontis Illustrated 'The High History Of The Holy Grail.Vol 2. Only. Second book of Two. Fair+ Original Rare Little Dent Edition Blank endpaper missing Three full page b/w Burne Jones Pre- Raphaelite Mystical illus. of Grail and Grail Angel in this little leather Vol.2. of the 2 vol. Medieval 'High History of the Holy Grail'.England: J.M. Dent & Co.1902. Book. Illus. by Burne Jones. Fair+. Hardcover. Third English Edition. 16mo Faded covers and rubbed leather cover and edges of spine. Front cover weak but present. Leather has sunned the cover green. Internally ... View More...
Rare First Welsh Edition C. 1907 (?) of this Little Travel "AN ACCOUNT OF DINAS BRAN CASTLE LLANGOLLEN Not only the center of the Welsh Grail lore Also the focus of Susan Coopers Grey King and Fulk Fitz Warine Powys popularized by Graham Phillips but the center of much Welsh Medieval history of Madog ap Gruffudd Maelor founder of Valle Crucis as narrated in here. Within the 14 pp 12 mo vol. there are Welsh ballad translated Jenny Jones & Ned Morgan. Pen and ink drawing on cover of early castle and the hill with those walking up its winding road.Fair+-Good- Soiled covers creased NO writing exc... View More...
Fair+.Working Copy Trade Paperback. New York: SUNY, 1984. Book. Second American Edition. 8vo 194 pp. Trade Paperback Good- Edge of rear cover creased, damaged, small tears, a few pages dog eared else free of writing. NOT a library book. B/W Photos of Irish bogs. Excellent on W.B. Yeats and his Sligo as an entity in his poetry. Clean pages NOT a library copy Good solid working copy. See our Scan View More...
Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot, 1846. Book. Illus. by B/W Frontis Drawing. Fair+. Full-Leather. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original Philadelphia 1846 Edition Popular history of England from the Romans on through, Vortigern Hengest and Horsa on Full Leather. Used in early American schools. Unusual in that the Celtic Britons and the Silures are resisting Roman oppression and calls 'Mona' the Druid isle, 'Sacred ground' Fair+ Binding shot book itself very good. One inch chip in lower spine. Front board detached and missing. Rear board present and attached. Internally book in clean very good condi... View More...
