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Price: US$108.87 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume 1. 861pp. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Re-bound by library. The original edition of William Caxton, reprinted and edited with an introduction and glossary. Large 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering within gilt bordered black panel on backstrip. Light general shelf wear. Both hinges split. Interior is secure, clean and clear. Untrimmed except for top edge which is gilted. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,3150grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New edition 4to. Black leather , abraded wear, small losses to spine ends, sound binding, dark marks and spotting inside front and back, spotting to eps, very good page condition thereafter. Shipping out of UK to be discussed, the weight being 2.9 kg
Seller: Anne Godfrey, Pwllheli, United Kingdom
Price: US$366.39 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1889-1891. 3 vols. in 2. Vol.I: x,861pp. / Vol.II: vii,230pp. / Vol.III: xxv,338pp. With 3 chart of Vol.III. Full brown leather with gilt title on spine. T.e.g. Marbled endpapers. Front & rear cover partly stained & sl.rubbed. Its spine sunned & sl.rubbed. Spine of vol.I sl.cracked & chipped. Top edge stained. Fore & bottom edges partly sunned. Front & rear ep. sunned & sl.chipped of each vols. [Vol.I]: 678-679pp. sl.sunned. [Vol.II]: A folding table showing to face page P.17 torn & repaired. Tape repaired on lower part of chart of one. [Vol.III]: A Folding table showing to face page P.55 torn & repaired & small chipped. 27x19.5cm. [f0534-170540]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Syr Thomas Malory; H Oskar Sommer; Andrew Lang. Le Morte Darthur. David Nutt, London, 1889.
Price: US$416.28 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Syr Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte Darthur', the text in two uniform large paper volumes. Two volumes of text. Complete thus. Uncommon.The original edition of William Caxton reprinted and edited with an introduction and glossary by H Oskar Sommer. With a critical essay by Andrew Lang.'Le Morte d'Arthur' is a fifteenth century Middle English prose by Sir Tomas Malory, retelling the legendary tales of King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Compiled from various French and English sources. This work is one of the best-known pieces of Arthurian literature.Gathering to vol 2 misfolded with pagination as follows: [2], 431-32, 429-30, 427-8, 425-6, 433-861. Complete with continuous pagination. Title page to vol. I only. In uniform duo-cloth bindings with gilt lettering to spine. Externally with minor bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities, back strip faded to both volumes. Front board vol. II sunned. Internally, firmly bound. Minor spotting to fore edge affecting first and last few leaves, pages otherwise generally bright and clean. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Malory, Sir Thomas.. LE MORTE DARTHUR.. London: David Nutt,, 1889.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Large, thick quarto. Half brown leather, gilt titles and tooling on spine. 861 pp. This is the volume of Malory's text from the Oscar Sommer edition. Some staining to opening leaves, else very good in a beautifully done binding. Nota: a word for word, line for line, page by page facsimile of the first edition, reprinted and edited by Dr. Sommer.
Seller: Tintagel, Springfield Center, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 2 vol. Folio. [9], viii-x, [5], 2-432; 433-861, [5] pp. Half black pebbled imitation leather ruled in gilt over marbled boards, spines in six compartments with gilt decorations and lettering on the spines; top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Volume one illustrated with a full-page facsimile of Caxton's printing. With decorative initials. Edited by H. Oskar Sommer. David Nutt's Malory was originally done in three volumes: this is the first volume bound in two separate tomes. These books contain the full text of Caxton's Malory. Volumes two and three of Nutt's reproduction of Caxton's Malory contain the editor's notes, the glossary and the bibliography, as well as Lang's essay. Our set contains the full Caxton text only. These volumes constitute a very handsome edition of Le Morte D'Arthur, a foundational work in Arthurian folklore and British mythology. The printing is stylish, and recalls the medieval sensibilities of Malory's lifetime. Three small chips to the edges of the boards, overall a sharp set.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First critical edition. 4to. Three volumes in two, uniformly bound. xviii, 861,(3); 230, 2); 338(2)pp. Publisher's quarter leather, gilt spine titles, top edges gilt. Cloth boards. Volume One contains the facsimile of Caxton's edition; Volume Two contains Sommer's notes, glossary and bibliography of the Morte d'Arthur; and Volume Three contains Andrew Lang's introductory essay as well as Sommer's notes on the Arthurian sources. Facsimile of Caxton's page 75 in Volume One. Three folding charts present in Volume Three. And with Sommer's Editor's Note laid into Volume 1. Spine tips nicely mended, some age crackling to the leather spines but overall a very good set. Gaines A12. .
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Complete 4 book set. 33.5 x 25.5 cm. Bound into 3/4 navy blue leather over blue cloth. 5 raised bands to spine and leather spine labels with gilt lettering. Edited with an Introduction and Glossary by H. Oskar Sommer and with an essay on Malory's prose style by Andrew Lang. Marble endpapers. Limited to just 108 copies of this large paper edition, signed by the publisher, of which this is set #83. Volume 1, the main text is divided into two books. Volume II consists of introduction while volume 3 is "Studies on the Sources". Facsimile plate in volume 1, 5 charts (4 of which are folding) in volumes 2 and 3. Some scuffing to edges of leather and cloth. Facsimile of the original text of the Caxton Edition (PMM 29).
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$3522.38 + shipping
Description: First edition of the first truly scholarly edition of Malory's Arthurian epic, number 14 of 108 copies numbered and signed by Nutt, this set from the library of a notable San Francisco family, handsomely bound by the Californian binders Hicks Judd. The 861-page first volume (bound here as two) prints word-for-word the preface and full text of Caxton's 1485 Morte Darthur first edition - Sommer was working from the Althorp copy in the British Library, one of only two then known. The latter two volumes comprise much bibliographical and critical discussion, including an essay by Andrew Lang, a list of names and places, and a glossary. Provenance: each volume has the bookplates of both the poet and 28th Mayor of San Francisco, Edward Robeson Taylor, and his eldest son, the printer and artist Edward DeWitt Taylor, to the front pastedowns. 3 volumes in 4, quarto (333 x 266 mm). Contemporary red half morocco by Hicks Judd, marbled sides, titles gilt to spines, raised bands tooled in blind, blind rules extending to covers, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Facsimile plate in vol. 1, 5 charts (4 folding) in vols. 2 and 3. Two bookplates to each pastedown. Extremities occasionally bumped, a little recoloured, negligible marks to boards of vol. 2, light foxing to edges, very occasionally extending to text. A very good copy indeed.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom