Rare Collectible First Edition Near Very Good Trade Paperback (No hardcover was ever issued by this small publisher) 1988 NOT a library book. 150 pp. Clean No writing in book. Some slight shelf wear tight solid condition No writing in text.. Hard to find small Newfoundland press by Alan Fisk author of "The Summer Stars" about the Welsh Bard, Taliesin. See our Scans for condition. Historical journey novel based on Richard Hakluyt's Tudor travel book on Newfoundland told by Thomas Butts and Oliver Dawbeney. First Edition. View More...
Original Near Very Good Hardcover Red Cloth Gilt Cover design and Spine Lettering. Scottish Gaelic English Translation Facing page. Frontis and tissue of Deirdre. Published by Paisley. A. Gardner, 1914 Gathered by the great Scottish Gaelic Folklorist Alexander Carmichael. This Tragic love tale and Celtic warrior epic that breaks the heart. This book not this particular copy it seems was was in J.R.R. Tolkien's very own book collect of Celtic books! See Oronzoo Cilli Tolkien Library. NOT a library copy, a on spine and read by a lover. See our Three Geese in Flight Scans of this handsome book. View More...
Near Very Good Hardcover Tight binding Vol.1 only of two. The best Edition 1975 reprint of the 1811 First Edition. 304 pp. Ex-library but fairly unobtrusive. Silver spine titles and free of writing in text. Solid. Anne Grant daughter of Scottish Officer wrote a classic early history of Albany New York in French and Indian war and later back in Scotland wrote this On the superstitions and Fairy and Magic of the Scottish Highlanders. See our Three Geese in Flight Scans View More...
Very Good- Hardcover Very Good- Dust Jacket U. S. A.: Random House 1989. 8vo 360 pp. Pride clipped Jacket has two closed little tears. Remainder mark on extremity of paper. Intertwines King Arthur, Excalibur and Israel and the Occult. Why not? According to medieval literature Arthur went to Judea and Joseph of Arimathea who brought the Grail came from Israel. King Bors and King Ban's wives were descended from King David in the Vulgate Lancelot. All around solid shape. Stated First Edition and numbered second printing. Very good all around clean shape both jacket and book. Clean free of wri... View More...
Original Near Very Good C.1898 First Edition Decorative Hardcover NOT a library copy NO writing anywhere. Clean 248 pp. Some rubs and fades on covers. Binding solid. a.e.g. Wonderful Prize Bookplate dated 1898. Published London Wells & Gardner, Darton & Co.10 B/W full-page really wonderful Breton Eighteenth century scenes, clothing, and musicians & 40 text vignettes by Hildibrand, See our Three Geese in Flight Scans. First Edition. View More...
Near Very Good. Hardcover. American Edition. 8vo Oxford: University Press, 1968.A nice copy NOT a library copy. Beowulf translated by Charles W.Kennedy. No underlines but a few marks and comments in text. Reads with excitement as well as scholarship, always a great desired combination. Test glossary Modern English translation Word hoard and spear deeds. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans. Dust jacket present. View More...
Near Very Good Trade Paperback 1996 238 pp. Color and B/W photos. A mix of gabrielino indians catalina prehistory and modern guide. The fact this has Avalon as a part of the island tells you there is more to this tourist island off the west coast than meets the eye.Useful and entertaining No writing in book NOT a ex-library copy either View More...
Very Good- Hardcover Very Good- Dust Jacket 160 pp. First Irish Wolfhound Edition Cover Cover Illustration Jeanette Dunne NOT a library copy Clean pages price cut jacket and only flaw some discoloration on inside at the bottom of dust jacket not visible on cover or anywhere else unless you look under the jacket from board running a bit.Tight binding NO Writing.First Irish Wolfhound Edition of Vol.I of successful Irish Children's fantasy series along the lines of Alan Garner. Wonderful animated cover by Jeanette Dunne unique to this edition.See our scans Three Geese in Flight Celtic myth since ... View More...
Near Very Good Hardcover. Methuen, 1956. First English Edition. 4to. Large black cloth Very good tight pages, (one underline with fascinating comment) tight binding, No writing, NOT a library book. Some light fading to bumped upper spine title. Else tight and clean. See our scans. Many illus Great classic of early Medieval Britain, Pagan Saxons Celtic, Viking and Anglo Saxon. Fourteen essays from Celtic heads to Arthurian era coins to Pagan Jutes to Irish enamel R.L.S. Bruce-Mitford jewelry by fourteen great scholars from Francoise Henry, J.N.L.Myres, C.A.Raleigh Radford, T.C. Lethbridge, R.L.... View More...
First Edition Near Very Good Trade Paperback Clean 224 pp. Best way to enter a Mohawk Town with this trusted guide. Here is the "Kanienkehaka" a modern warrior and wisdom wearer, who besides being a knowledgeable historian lived through a lot of this and a real nice guy. Here is so much plus photos of Mohawk warrior father who fought in the Second World War (One was not enough?!) and his Oneida family. Great photos of Maisie Shenandoah. Great insight into the ancient ways...Like the Hebrews the Longhouse were tough enough to allow woman to give them their strength. NOT a library copy, a little... View More...
Very Good- Original Complete 77 pp. Issue Of Shaman's Drum NOT a library book. Clean free of writing. Some shelf wear. Includes "The Healing Power of Ancient Iroquoian Dreamways" by Robert Moss Ten pages. The noted author of two novels on Sir William Johnson and the Mohawk Clan Mothers. Here is a focused study on the importance of dream guessing in Longhouse Iroquois thought. The real thing. Also "The Peyote Meeting for Fool Bull" by Henry Niese and petroglyphs"Ancient Visions on Stone" and Guarani Shamans of the Rainforest" More .See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans for cover and Table o... View More...
Near Good Green Hardcover First Edition. 8vo Great Academic study of the Medieval Spanish epic 'El Cid' and his historicity by this Guatemalan scholar. In English. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Ex-library. But no numbers on spine titles No writing in the text tight, clean 189 pages. Wonderful work Embossed silver Pegasus on cover..See scans First Edition. View More...
Very Good- Hardcover Good Dust Jacket First American Edition Clean 209 pp. Blue Cloth clean pages. As is often the case with this book slight fades at spine edges. Price Intact on dust jacket. Some small chips with loss at head and heal and some rubs to the coloring else 'Good'. This Cape Cod Colonial Mythic romance is one of the best little known American fantasy novels. The American Grey Witchcraft is real and the Cornish Piskies here in Colonial Cape Cod are called 'Sand Dobies' are also real and not explained away. A real knowledge of the Cape and 'Sea Spells' the author from a long seafar... View More...
First Edition E. P. Dutton. New York 1912 Blue Hardcover Gilt Harp Near Very Good 320 pp. B/W Illus. Photos Plates. St.Albert's College Library Bookplate . Some light rubs on boards A few faded hints of pencil marks.Tight binding. Excellent study of the Irish Bardic class. From early Celtic Bards to Tudor Ireland. Harp styles, gut strung, wire strung, hand positions. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans. Celtic studies since 1977 book wrapped well. First Edition. View More...
First Edition Good+ Hardcover. U. S. A.: Bucknell University Press, 1970. Book. Near Very Good. NOT a library copy except for some serial numbers on title page NO other markings anywhere. See our Scans. NO Plates NO pocket.Tight Binding. Clean pages, No underlines. Revised and Enlarged Insight into ancient Irish mythology and the Celtic Triple Goddess Brigid and the Sidhe Folk. Also the Fenian and Ulster cycle discussed. Highly recommended concise and deep study of Celtic Sovereignty in Irish mythology. See our Three Geese in Flight Scans of Table of contents and condition First Edition. View More...
Original Near Very Good First 1934 New York Edition Red Hardcover. Inscribed by the author "George" The cover had, so it seems, a hot drinking cup placed on the outside cover causing the red cloth to bleed onto embossed Title Patch. Soiling on cover and red cover bleed. inside excellent, clean, tight and bright. 30 pp. Translated From The Middle English with an Introduction by American Scholar George Brandon Saul Lively retelling of Arthur and Gawain's search for what a woman wants most from a man. Here we have the Irish Sovereignty Goddess and the very heart of the true West. A Gawain treasur... View More...
Very Good-.Hardcover. New York: Liveright Publishing,, 1945.Fifth Printing. 8vo The famed Irish author's historical novel of the two medieval lovers .It is all the more tragic because it is true. The letters and writings of Peter Abelard of Brittany survive as do many of Heloise letters as well. Very Good- No writing or underlines. Shelf wear Nice decorative gold design on spine. romance between two intellectual forbidden medieval lovers. Great story great price. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scan View More...
Near Very Good First Edition Trade Paperback If you have a hard time with J.R.R. Tolkien's literary Legendarium try this. It is the "Cliff Notes" of Middle Earth, broken down and explained. NOT a library copy. No writing in the 338 pp. Only some normal shelf wear. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans First Edition. View More...
Very Good Mass Market Paperback 205 pp. U.S.A: First Ballantine Books Edition, 1969. Great Classic Fantasy 12 mo NO signatures.The Sorcerer's Ship Ballantine Unicorn Fantasy Clean Pages Spine cocked forward a little with shelf wear Small crease at of bottom cover. Tight Binding. NO writing. NOT a library book. First Thus. Part of the great 'Unicorn Adult Fantasy' series by Ian Ballantine that they published after the success of the 'Lord of The Rings' trilogy. Lin Carter Introduction The wonderful Ray Cruz color cover illustration of a Merlin like wizard is bright and just what you look for ... View More...
Original Early Ballantine Paperback Very Good Twenty-ninth Printing of this Tolkien classic that belongs on all Tolkien libraries.B/W illus. 1979 Clean pages 251 pp. NOT a library copy. Tight binding Light shelf wear only . A gold mine a word-hoard of Tolkien treasure. From "Tom Bombadil to Tree and Leaf and more. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans View More...
Near Very Good+. Academic Paperback. First Edition First Printing. Blue cardstock binding, clean pages no underlines. 241pp. Eleven essays on Renaissance studies. Among them. J.F.C. Richards "The Poems of C. Aurelius Cambinius" Neal W. Gilbert "Francesco Vimercato of Milan: A Bio-Bibliography"" The Trojan Franks and Their Critics" George Herbert" "Musicians on Parnassus" "Francesco Vmercato of Milan' Neal w. Gilbert Seven more essays! Clean pages tight binding. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans First Edition. View More...
Very Good Trade Paperback Clean 192 pp. NOT a library copy. NO writing NO underlines Just a little shelf handling otherwise excellent.See our Scans This edition of the First hand narrative of a Scots Irish girl captured in the 18th century and raised by Seneca of the Six Nations. Window into revolutionary war Iroquois life by a woman who loved and missed her European parents and also loves her life among the Six nations. This is the better academic edition with notes, two introductions and has the wonderful color illus by Seneca Ernest Smith on the cover of three woman hoeing corn. Good clean... View More...
Rare Original Collectible 1912 First Edition of this James H. Cousins study of Irish and Celtic Mythology From a Pagan Philosophical Perspective. Published by the Theosophical Society Much like A.E. and Kenneth Morris and most like Ella Young..Here original green binding 61 pp.Irish and Vedic Myth compared. Tight binding, several small discoloration stains on boards Logo and Titles on cover clear NOT a library copy which is really uncommon..Very Good- Several marks, underlines and philosophical comments in in margins text but not overpowering. Section of the Irish Holy Grail Bran, Lugh. Wonde... View More...
Near Very Good Trade Paperback NOT a library copy 288 pp Clean pages NOT a library copy. NO stickers.See our scans. A deep dive into the history of Wallace and Scotland's drive for freedom View More...
Very Good-. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Blue library buckram Near Very Good Overall Condition. NO Writing Underlines. Kansas City reference library copy. A Clean pages Near Very Good' 1086 Arthurian entries in the Newberry library. See our scans Includes Two books bound in One. Great for Arthurian book collection or research from Newberry Library! First Edition. View More...
Very Good- Hardcover. First American Edition 1910. 8vo Large Hardcover on the legends and Arthurian border tales of Scotland. Gilt thistle on front board and spine. Chapter "Border Wizards" has Merlin and the Scottish Saint Kentigern Also 'True Thomas' of Fairyland fame. Mary Queen of Scots, Wallace and Robert the Bruce. Scottish Arthur Six beautiful photogravures, deckled edge paper. Mercantile Library stamped on title page. Except for some paper residue from removed book plate and library pocket on front and rear end papers this is great bright shape, tight binding. Spine clean of numbers se... View More...
Original Hardcover Inscribed and signed John Jay by his ancestor. Dated 1888. The Peace Negotiations of 1782-1783 As Newly Illustrated by Confidential Papers of Shelburne And Vergennes.Reprinted from the Seventh Volume of Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America. 184 pp. B/W illus. Revolutionary War Patriot of New York Lawyer and leader of the famed Peace Treaty ending the American Revolution in the glory it deserves. To this day is kept alive by a Criminal Justice School in his name.Here inscribed and signed by his ancestor. Cover badly mottled inside clean, tight binding. See our T... View More...
First Scottish Edition 1961 Oliver and Boyd Near Very Good Hardcover. Near Good Dust Jacket No Writing In Text. No underlines. The Jacket has some paper rubbing on spine erasing some lettering but NO Chipping on the jacket. Except for a very small stamp of numbers on first free endpaper you might be hard pressed to know this was a library copy. SEE our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans. Tight binding Clean text. Study of the early Medieval Celtic Church and Saint Ninian, the Picts and Urien of Rheged. Since 1977 we wrap the book in brown paper to protect cover in transit. Dust jacket present. ... View More...
Near Very Good Complete Issue 90 pages Several pages loose Clean NOT a library copy. Native Americas six essays on Global Warming, Climate Change & Native Lands John Mohawk essay on Hopi-Haudenosaunee prophecy. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans. First Edition. View More...
Very Good-.Original 1949 Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo Collection of Cornish essays from "The Celtic Arthur" to "The Cornishman" collected and published into a hardcover of clean 63 pages. Very good clean shape. First blank end paper missing else tight, bright, clean pages, red cloth hardcover and clean. NOT a library copy. The Three page essay "Celtic Arthur" on a Cornish historical Arthur, (See our Scan) Megalithic Scilly Isles. Another on Pilgrims to St. Michael Mount, another on the "Fortunate Isles' and the Isle of Scilly, Terrific printed and published in Cornwall. Crisp, fine b/w photos... View More...
