Original Ethiopian Manuscript Page from the Book of Psalms. Nineteenth Century on Sheepskin or Goatskin. Two tone writing. Red is the Holy word Written in Geez or Amharic on both sides of page. See our Scans for image and wear at bottom corner and top. I Purchased this 1977 at old Pageant Book Store in Manhattan on the great Book Row that has passed like Numenor. First Edition. View More...
Good+ Hardcover. First English Edition A Macdonald College Library Bookplate on front end paper says 'withdrawn' on it. That library marking and numbers on top of two pages. See our Scans. Irish poet Theosophical vision painter of Fairies on walls and the father of the dairy Co-op, who supposedly President D, Franklin Roosevelt brought A.E. to America to teach about co-ops. Tight binding. Bright gilt lettering on spine and front board. A good deal. Three Geese In Flight since 1977. First Edition. View More...
Good+ Hardcover 1928 Later English Edition 175 pp. Clean Text Missing first blank endpaper. Spine covered with blue binders tape. Signed by Moira Joyce with a little drawing, Co-founder of Three Geese in Flight Celtic Books. See our Scan with Table of Contents "The Earth Breath" "Celtic Cosmology" etc. NOT a library copy. View More...
Good+.Hardcover. Second American Edition. 8vo Original Norwood Hardcover Irish Fomor and Lugh of the Long Arm 1973 Reprint rare Celtic studies title on Balor of the Fomorians and Tuatha De Danann. Comparative Studies Arthurian Conte de Graal, Arthur and Gorlagon, and Perceval. Academic comparative Celtic discussion. Tight binding. Ex-library No writing or underlines. No library pocket but the ghost of removed library stickers can be seen. NO Numbers on spine. A few small stamps on second blank end papers but the pages are clean and NO underlines.Remains of removed tape This is the 1973 No... View More...
Good+.Trade Paperback.Massachusetts: Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library, 1999. 1st Edition. 8vo Fantastic achievement with this saving of lost Yiddish American literature, Here are letters of merchandise for shops and department stores, weddings and circumcisions, and poignant letters from 1899 in Hebrew Yiddish with English facing page and English introduction. Good Clean condition crease on front cover and small crease on edge of back cover else clean tight..NOT a library copy. NO writing. First Edition. View More...
Boston Massachusetts: State Street Trust Company, 1927. Book. Illus. by b/w Illus. Good+. Trade Paperback. First Edition First Printing. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Original 1927 Large Quarto Trade Paperback NOT a library copy which is Uncommon. B/W Photos This great anthology of history and photos of Colonial Boston and New England forts during the Revolutionary War highlights the French visit and contribution to America. Published by a Boston bank in 1927 Fine scholarship and artifacts and places rarely seen in photo. Also a great deal of illustrated Benjamin Franklin's association with France... View More...
Rare 1921 Original Booklet in original brown binding by Arthur C. Parker 12 pp. Second Edition. The University of the State of New York Albany From New York State Museum Bulletin 1918.The great Seneca Archeologist and Scholar discusses the relationship of the Five Nations and later Six Nations relationship to the western New York Mound Builder culture, the Effigy pipes, and their pottery and three possible consequent theories. Original brown covers, dampening shadow on center of all the pages else it would be Very Good. See our Three Geese In Flight Book Scans. No scent, and No wavering or cri... View More...
Original Good+ Red Hardcover. 1866 Hardcover. Bliss Sands & Co. Second Edition. 8vo Near Very Good Clean Pages No Writing in Text NOT a library book. Sunning on cover. Tales of Medieval Scotland in Verse. Wallace, Bruce, the 45, Wonderful frontis. Illus. 243pp. This is in good tight shape. Gilt spine title. A little cover soil and fades but tight and internally clean See our scans. Wonderful book. Three Geese in Flight Celtic Books since 1977 View More...
Good+.Hardcover. First American Edition. U.S.A.: Indiana University Press, 1962. Ex-Library. 8vo . Hardcover.169 pp. Near Very Good/No jacket. First American Edition. Excellent academic resource for the Crusades or Knight Templar's and Muslim Turkish response. Serious bibliography and resource tool. Except for Ex-library stamps but No pocket at least. this resource book is in nice solid shape, No underlines, No writing in text, No pocket Great for medievalist book collector. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Original 1959 Good+ Hardcover Good+ Dust Jacket Kalevala Young Adult Fantasy B/W Illus Fritz Eichenberg. Ex- Library.with the markings and engraver punch etc. Still Good+ as is jacket, 238 pp. Ninth Printing Julian Messner, Inc New York I wonder if bold Vainamoinen was not the inspiration for Tom Bombadil and Valar, Tulkas. A great way to approach the difficult verse epic here in easy Young Adult prose and Fritz Eichenberg illustrations now itself difficult to find. See our Three Geese in Flight Scans Dust jacket present. View More...
Ireland: Folens, 1987. Book. Good+. Trade Paperback. First Irish Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Stiff Color Illustrated Card Stock Covers 32pp Color illustrated with pastel drawings of Torcs, Ave heads, Jewelry, etc by Terry Myler of Celtic, yes 'Celtic' daily life in the bronze age, and Barry Raftery's knowledgeable text. No date C.1987. Who said Socialism is so bad?. The Irish government had the self respect to publish and help finance academic studies of their countries ancient culture. This was No.66 of the Irish Environment Library Series and I believe part of this program. New York ... View More...
New York: Hill And Wang, 1964. Book. Good+. Clean Trade Paperback. First Edition First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. If you want a real bowl of Matzo Ball soup or a Pastrami on rye this book tells you the classic spots from the 1960 s. Best thing some are still there. Great history pictures, address listings. Good clean shape Trade Paperback.Since 1977 we wrap first in brown paper to protect your book. First Edition. View More...
Ireland: Books Ireland, 1983. Book. Good+. Soft cover. 1st Irish Edition. 8vo. Good+ This brilliant Irish Book Review Magazine from the heady Irish bookselling days of the 80s, (Catalogs, remember them) proved, as if it was ever necessary that Ireland was a nation of Saints and Scholars. Cover articles 'Olympic Irishman" "Horseless Carriages early Motoring in Ireland" Includes ephemera, a separate 'A Portrait of Irish Medicine' and a renewal slip. Magazine has no writing but it has light creases and shelf wear. Photos NOT a library copy. First Edition. View More...
Good+ Arthurian Fantasy Art amidst the Retold tales of the Great king, Sir Gawain and Green Knight, Lancelot and Guinevere with B/W and Color art Rodney Matthews 83 pp. More. First American Edition NOT a library copy. NO writing Some shelf wear from handling. Great fantasy art and Arthurian adventure for you or a visionary teenager. Five star Customer service since 1977 View More...
Good+ 757 pp. Numerous Illus. NOT a library book and would be "Very Good" NO Jacket chips BUT a lot of underlines throughout. Amazing journey through the fall of Rome in the Late Classical Early Medieval era in the time of the historian John Morris would have been called "The Age of Arthur"' though he is not the focus but the times that brought him about. Huge book Three Geese in Flight since 1977 Five star Customer service Dust jacket present. View More...
Good+ 1973 Second Printing. Clean free of writing or markings except for a single "Discard" on preliminary. (See scan) No numbers anywhere. No other markings at all. None on spine no other library type markings at all curious. NO signatures Otherwise tight a rub on back cover Overall Good+. This is a extraordinary book if you like J.R.R Tolkien, and Faerie. For here is his seminal essay on Fairy Stories and his defense of Fantasy. His love of Faerie is the word for an unexpectant joy out of the microwave of gloom, "Eucatastrophe!". Besides this Owen Barfield, C.S Lewis, On Stories, and his br... View More...
Good++ Hardcover Good+ Dust Jacket Ninth Printing 1966 Illustrations B/W by the great Pauline Baynes beloved by J. R.R. Tolkien himself. Clean 186 pp. D/J Price Intact. NOT a library copy. An owners name on first free endpaper with date Mar. 23 1966 Else NO Other Writing.Jacket has some usage a few chips, rubs and tiny creases. Else book and jacket Good++ See our Three Geese in Flight Books Scans, For those of us who can vaguely remember being inside a wardrobe.... Dust jacket present. View More...
Good+Trade Paperback. First Paperback. 8vo Excellent Window Into The Fifth and Sixth century and the fall of Rome. Attila and the beginning of the 'Dark Ages'. Clean 228 pp. NOT a library book . Here the wheels of power turning and we see them thru the safe window of this book. Vandals, Pope Leo, Goths, Burgundians, Celts, Huns, Good solid shape, internally clean. First Edition. View More...
Original Good+ Arthurian Poster Excalibur Tournament of the Sword" 16 inches tall by 12 inches wide on Card Stock. Circa 1985-90. Very few have survived. These were displayed on trees in Bear Park Upstate New York. Age wear in the form of creases with fold curves. Clean No writing. No tears. This was Arthurian play performed at Bear Mountain Park in the late 80s or early 90s. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scan First Edition. View More...
Good+ Large Trade Paperback 290 pp. B/W Photos 290 pp. Clean pages, Cover shelf wear rubs and fades NOT a library copy. Tight binding. In depth study of pictographs and petroglyphs of the mysterious American Medieval southwest. Hohokam, Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, Cibola the Anasazi. The echo of these wonders can be seen in the Pueblo culture today and in this book. Among the very best for the big picture of all these site by one of the greats in "Rock Art" Five star customer support since 1977 First Edition. View More...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946. Book. Good+. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition Good+ Hardcover No jacket. No writing in text. NOT a library copy. This was a righteous crusade. Thanks in part to this great man, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. Here is the smoke of battle with a man who was with him. D.Day Hedge rows. Horror camps and liberation. Except for some speckled fade mark son the spine and cover this thick history is in tight, clean solid shape. Battles and thoughts are here b/w illus. Clean pages tight binding. NO writing inside. NOT a librar... View More...
Good+.Hardcover Good+ Dust Jacket U.S.A.: Doubleday,This is the early 1972. Book Club Hardcover Edition A bump on top of spine Clean pages NOT a library copy. Great Highland romance storytelling here historical romance,with the best of them. NOT a library book. See our Scan Celtic books since 1977 Three Geese in Flight Five star Customer service Dust jacket present. View More...
France: Chez Louis Colas, Libraire, 1840. Book. Good+. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original French Quarter Leather. Good+ Comprenant L'Histoire de France depuis les temps les plus anciens jusqu'a la mort de Charles VII Good+..Quarter Red leather Spine. Marble boards. Bottom edge of spine some loss. . Marbled board have white patches rubbed. Gilt Spine Marble endpapers Tight binding. Clean internally. History of Celtic Gaul through Clovis and the Late Middle Ages to Charles VII. French text. NOT a library book Handsome. Dust jacket present. View More...
First Edition Good+ Hardcover Good+ Dust Jacket Ex-library University of Cambridge Pasted down jacket but No chips and No writing in text. B/W illus. 408 pp. Great archaeology and illus. of little seen or discussed early Christian presence in early Britain. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Good+ Hardcover Clean pages with a little foxing. NOT a library book Gift.Inscription from Harry Sept 1930 on first free endpaper A discoloration stain at bottom of cover about two inches and a small one at top and a smaller one at bottom back cover. Binding tight 53 pp. Wild conversation between two Knights about the Round Table. Really pre War British. Great stuff. Since Three Geese In Flight 1977 we pack our Arthurian books with care. View More...
Rennes: Ogam, 1959. Book. Good+. Trade Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Original 1959 Edition Published in Rennes Brittany. Clean pages NOT a library copy. Academic French scholarly archeology and history of Druid and Celtic Gaul Ireland and Brittany and Galacia. Celtic numismatique coins and illus. of Celtic swords and gold jewelry. Clean pages. Paper spine flaked off. Binding tight pages clean NOT a library book!Maps, plates b/w illus. Large issue Hard to find. First Edition. View More...
Good+ Hardcover and Good+ Dust Jacket NOT a library book. Here is comprehensive study using recent resources. Hardcover. Small creases in the inside jacket flap and a small stain on the bottom of a few back pages, tight binding and a good solid copy! Not a library copy and since 1977 we pack with care. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Good+ Tight First English Edition Good- Dust Jacket. NOT a library copy. The Dust Jacket has a only a few small chips but lot of crinkling and foxing wear. See our scans book and jacket Hardcover binding tight, no writing inside book. Internally clean. Gilt titling bright. 67pp..Even in prose letters Yeats is the prince of poets Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Good+ Hardcover Good+ Mylar covered Dust Jacket First Edition Numbers 12345678910 No illustrator was closer to J.R.R.Tolkien's heart than Pauline Baynes For she captures the grace of Faerie for more than the corporate approved illustrators maring with a grim brush much of Christopher Tolkien's otherwise fine editions. Besides Tom Bombadil she illustrated the Fellowship on the outside of a Tolkien boxed paperback set. She of course graced Inkling C.S. Lewis Narnia. Here is The Arthurian Erec and Enid in my mind's eye one of her finest works. See scans The hardcover is Good+ Only because it is a... View More...
