Resultados de búsqueda: Arthurian Tales from Minotavros Books

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1901. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. Orig. maroon cloth, gilt titles. xix, 452 pp. B&W frontis portrait. Spine slightly cocked, a few tiny spots of light rubbing. Cracking to inner hinge at title page. Fine overall.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1974. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription by the editor to inside front cover. The Library of Literature No. 29. Soft cover. xxxvi, 257 pp. Darkening and wear to spine, damp stain to upper front joint. Small stain to foot of ffep. Interior clean. Near fine overall.

Paris: Robert Laffont, 1989. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Text in French. Bouquins Series. Soft cover. LIX, 1206 pp. Some tanning to covers, offset panels to rear, light creases to lower corner of front cover. Else fine and clean.

Boston & London: The Medici Society. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. N.d., [ca. 1929? Originally published by The Medici Society in 1920 as a two-volume set. This one-volume thin paper edition was printed later with the same general arrangement, which is why pagination is not continuous]. Half contemporary morocco, marbled paper boards, gilt compartments. Marbled endpapers. T.E.G. Ribbon marker. xlvi, 432, 531 pp. [24] colour plates, incl. frontis. Binder's ticket of Grabau to front turn-in at tail edge. With the preface of William Caxton. Bookplate of Charles Cobb Walker to front pastedown. Embossed ex libris stamp of New England Conservatory of Music to title page. Several unopened leaves. Some light rubbing to extremities, some discolouration to morocco in a few places. One 1" tear to head of p. 85. 0.

New York: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 16mo. Half-bound tan morocco over yellow marbled boards and matching endpapers. T.E.G. lvi, 509 pp. Gilt cross floury to compartments. Edges rubbed, some cracking to morocco on spine. Ink ownership inscription to flyleaf. Book in near fine condition. Binder's ticket of Blackwell to foot of verso of the FFEP, and Brentano's [Booksellers, New York], stamped at top edge. Henry Blackwell [1851-1928] was a Welsh-American bookbinder, bookseller, and bibliographer who emigrated to New York in 1877. [Dictionary of Welsh Biography.].

Felinfach, Lampeter: Llanerch Enterprises, 1988. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 162 pp. Illustrations in text. Covers are age toned, else fine.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1974. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo. Everyman's Library #1097. Paperback. xliv, 283 pp., [6 pp. ads]. Damp stain to lower corner, bumping to corners, a few small spots of wear. This translation of the complete Mabinogion presents in modern English eleven Welsh stories that are among the finest flowerings of the Celtic genius and, taken together, a masterpiece of medieval European literature.

London: Edward Arnold Publishers, 1971. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. viii, 163 p.p. Stain to head of front cover, with soiling and rubbing to covers and spine. Original price stamped on half-title page, otherwise in good condition, with extensive footnotes on the text, and a helpful glossary of middle english words.

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan Inc, 1975. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st American Edition. 8vo (royal). 224 p.p., [50] full page illustration incl. frontispiece, [16 colour]. Jacket yellowed, with residue from tape in interior of jacket. Pages sunned.. Light rubbing to spine, but otherwise in very good condition.

London: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo (square). ix, 102 p.p. [18] full page colour illustrations, with numerous in-text. Light wear to jacket covers and edges. Some wear to boards, extremities. Light sunning to head of pages, but interior clean, crisp. Otherwise in fine condition. Stories of myths and adventure beautifully retold from the Epic of Gilgamesh, The Homecoming of Odysseus, The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, The Quest for the Holy Grail, Alexander the Great and others. This book accompanied an exhibition by the same title held in the British Library Galleries from June to September 1996.

Dublin: The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Reprint. Red cloth boards with title stamped on spine. cvi, 97 p.p., [1]. Poem in Welsh, with Introduction and Notes in English. Owein or Ywain is one of the earliest known characters in Arthurian Romance. Light rubbing to boards, edges. Slight bruising at spine ends. Three tiny dotted stains to the rear cover. Interior clean, bright. A very good copy.

Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 5 x 7.5. viii, 112 p.p. incl. glossary of middle english words. Jacket sunned to spine, edges. Stain on front and rear cover, with two small tears to head of jacket spine. Inner jacket price clipped. Head and tail of spine bumped from shelf wear. Pages clean. In very good condition. Patience, a 14th Century Middle English poem, grouped with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Cleanliness written by the same author known as "The Pearl Poet." Patience is a retelling of the famous bible story Jonah.

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Tan cloth boards with red lettering to spine, red endpapers. viii, 136 p.p. B&W illustrations, incl. frontis. The illustrations accompanying this text are from a manuscript of Lancelot du Lac, written and illuminated in northeastern France at the beginning of the fourteenth century and now M. 805-6 in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Ink ownership stamp to foot of half-title. A few very small spots of soiling to front joint and light bumping to spine foot. Dust jacket is sunned at spine and edges, a few bumps. The Arthur you meet in this book is a stranger. He is not at all like the King Arthur you remember from children's stories for from the film Camelot. He is the Pendragon, the warlord of Dark Age Britain who lead his people to a great victory over the invading Saxons and won for them a long age of peace that affected the course of Western civilization.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 235 p.p., 10]] full page illustrations and photographs, with several in-text. Small tears to head and spine of jacket cover. Light wear to boards. Front pastedown endpaper slightly creased, otherwise fine.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1967. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. xiv, 63 pp. Slight tanning to spine and rear cover and a faded price stamp to half-title, else a fine, bright copy with no annotations.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1908. Hardcover. Near Fine. [Fell, Herbert Granville]. 18mo. 156 p.p. Eight colour plates. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and colour pictorial onlay to front board. Hinge cracked at verso of half title and offsetting to half title. Foxing to edges of text block, spine ends bumped. A few light spots of foxing to interior. Tom Thumb is a character of English folklore. The History of Tom Thumb was published in 1621, and was the first fairy tale printed in English. Tom is no bigger than his father's thumb, and his adventures include being swallowed by a cow, tangling with giants, and becoming a favourite of King Arthur.

London: The Aldine Publishing Co. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Greig, H.S.. 18mo. N.d., [ca. 1930s]. Red paper boards, black vignette to front board. 172 pp. Colour frontis. + B&W illustration in text. Some illustrations are partially hand-coloured by previous owner. Spine tilted. Some staining to boards and light edge wear. Foxing to edges of text block. Teacher's presentation inscription to ffep. Inner hinge cracked at p. 31. 0.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. Division of Meredith Corporation, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. 4.10 x 7.3. Text in French. v, 278 p.p., frontispiece. Rubbing to covers, extremities. Stain on bottom fore-edge. Glue visible along inner hinges. original price stamp on half-title, but otherwise In very good condition.