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Bedier, Joseph; Hilaire Belloc, transl.
THE ROMANCE OF TRISTAN AND ISEULT
London, George Allen, 1903.
$750
20363
Alexander, Lloyd
THE PRYDAIN CYCLE:THE BOOK OF THREE; THE BLACK CAULDRON (SIGNED); THE CASTLE OF LLYR;
TARAN WANDERER; AND THE HIGH KING
NY, Holt, Rinehart,Winston, 1964-1968.
$4000
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Baumann, Gustave
GUSTAVE BAUMANN'S SANTA FÉ
Santa Fé, The Press at the Palace of the Governors, 2018.
$250
20578
Betham, Sir William
THE GAEL AND CYMBRIOr an Inquiry in to the Origin and History of the Irish, Scoti, Britons, and Gauls,
and of the Caledonians, Picts,Welsh, Cornish and Bretons
Dublin,William Curry, Jun. and Co., 1834.
$400
17860
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Brent, Nathaniel;Pietro Soaue Polano
THE HISTORIE OF THE COUNCEL OF TRENT. IN EIGHT BOOKS.
London, Robert Young and John Ravvorth, 1640.
$750
Bridges, Sallie
MARBLE ISLE, LEGENDS OF THE ROUND TABLE,AND OTHER POEMS
Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1864.
$500
-3-
OFFCUTS:THE CAMPBELL-LOGAN BINDERY'S SUGGESTIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL BOOK BINDING
Minneapolis, The Bieler Press, 1985.
$450
Carr, John
THE STRANGER IN IRELAND,OR,A TOUR IN THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN PARTS OF THAT COUNTRY, IN THE YEAR 1805
London, Richard Phillips, 1806.
$2500
Chávez, Thomas E.
DOCTOR FRANKLIN & SPAIN
Santa Fé, The Press at the Palace of the Governors, (2016).
$600
-4-
(Catholic Church: Scottish Mission)
EPITOME RITUALIS ROMANI, IN USUM MISSIONUM SCOTIAE.
Edinburgh (?), (unk), 1783.
$2500
Closs, Hannah
TRISTAN
London, Andrew Dakers Ltd., 1940.
$125
-5-
Colwell, Elizabeth
SONGS OF TRISTAM &YSEVLT: QVATRAINS
Chicago, n.p., 1907.
$400
(Cyril ofJerusalem, Saint)
SANCTI PATRIS NOSTRI CYRILLI ARCHIEPISCOPI HIEROSOLYMORUM
CATHECHESES ILLUMINATORUM HIEROSOLYMIS XVIII & 5 MYSTAGOGICAE
Cologne, Apud Maternum Cholinum, 1564.
$2000
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Dana, Richard Henry
TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST:A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF LIFE AT SEA
New York, Harper & Brothers, 1840.
$1500
Denslow, W. W.
DENSLOW'S MOTHER GOOSE
New York, McClure, Phillips & Company, 1901
$1250
-7-
Disney, Walt
MICKEY MOUSE STORY BOOK
Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1931.
$750
Elkus, Richard J.
ALAMOS: A PHILOSOPHY IN LIVING.PHOTOGRAPHS &THE WRITTEN WORD
San Francisco, Grabhorn Press, 1965.
$450
-8-
Edward, Lord Herbert
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY
Montgomeryshire, Greynog Press, 1928
$400
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT: A PROSE TRANSLATION
London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1952.
$350
Evans, Arthur B.
LEICESTERSHIRE WORDS, PHRASES AND PROVERB
London,William Pickering, 1848.
$400
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Griffith, Llywelyn Wyn
PRYDERI
Newtown, Powys, Gwasg Gregynog, 1998.
$600
Griscom, Acton
THE HISTORIA REGUM BRITANNIÆ OF GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH
London, Longmans, 1929.
$250
-10
Herodotus
THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS OF HALICARNASSUS
Bloomsbury, The Nonesuch Press, 1935.
$750
Housman, Laurence
OF AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE:A TRANSLATION IN PROSE AND VERSE FORM THE OLD FRENCH,
TOGETHER WITH AMABEL AND AMORIS
London, Chatto &Windus, 1925.
$200
Hardy, Thomas
POEMS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT
London, Harper & Brothers, (1902).
$2000
-11-
Humphrey, Maud
MAUD HUMPHREY'S MOTHER GOOSE
New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1891.
$750
Le Guin, Ursula K.
THE ADVENTURES IN KROY:SOLOMON LEVIATHAN'S NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIRST TRIP AROUND THE WORLD
AND THE ADVENTURES OF A COBBLER'S RUNE
New Castle, Cheap Street, 1982.
$450
Leblanc, Henri
CATALOGUE DE L'ŒUVRE COMPLET DE GUSTAVE DORE:ILLUSTRATIONS, PEINTURES, DESSINS, SCULPTURES, EAUX-FORTES, LITHOGRAPHIES
Paris, Ch. Bosse, 1931.
$550
-12-
Madden, Frederick; James J. Owens; Dmitry Sayenko
THE WEDDING OF SIR GAWAIN
St. Petersburg, Dmitry Sayenko; Nikodim, 2018.
$2750
-13-
Malory, Sir Thomas
THE STORY OF ELAYNE,THE FAIR MAID OF ASTOLAT
Guildford, Surrey, A. C. Curtis (Astolat Press), 1903.
$250
Malory, Sir Thomas
THE BYRTH, LYF,AND ACTES OF KYNG ARTHUR;OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUNDE TABLE,
THEYR MERVEYLLOUS ENQUESTS &ADVENTURES ...
London, Longman, Hurst, 1817.
$3000
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Maritain, Raissa
ARBRE PATRIARCHE; PATRIARCH TREE
Worcester, Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1965.
$200
Mason. Eugene, transl.
AUCASSIN & NICOLETTE
London, J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1910.
$400
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(Miniature)
ALPHABET SALMAGUNDI
Hyattsvilole, MD, Rebecca Press, (1988).
$250
Moeschlin, Elsa
THE RED HORSE
New York, Coward McCann Inc., Publishers, n.d. (1929).
$450
-16-
Morris, Henry
OMNIBUS:INSTRUCTIONS FOR AMATEUR PAPERMAKERS
WITH NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS ON PRIVATE PRESSES, BOOK PRINTING AND
SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THESE ACTIVITIES
n.p., The Bird & Bull Press, 1967.
$400
THE FANNY CORY MOTHER GOOSE
n.p., Bobbs-Merrill Company, c. 1913
$500
-17-
Musset, Alfred de
ON NE BADINE PAS AVEC L'AMOUR
Paris, Conquet, 1904.
$750
(New York School System?)
TEACHING CARDS
n.p., Sup. Educ. Assn., (1930).
$150
-18-
(Nursery Rhymes)
GAMMER GURTON'S GARLAND
London, Chapman and Hall, n.d. (ca. 1865).
$400
O'Neill, Rose
THE KEWPIES AND THE RUNAWAY BABY
Garden City, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928.
$500
-19-
Peacock, Thomas Love
THE MISFORTUNES OF ELPHIN. BY THE AUTHOR OF HEADLONG HILL
London, Thomas Hookan, 1829. First edition.
$750
Petrarca, Francesco
EIGHTEEN SONNETS OF FRANCIS PETRARCHDONE INTO ENGLISH BY VARIOUS TRANSLATORS
Yellow Springs, Ohio, Kahoe & Company, 1929.
$400
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Piozzi, Hester Lynch
LETTERS TO AND FROM THE LATE SAMUEL JOHNSON
London, A. Strahan and T Cadell, 1788. First edition.
$350
Riley, James Whitcomb
ALL THE YEAR ROUND
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, (1912).
$1000
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Sandoz, Mari
CRAZY HORSE: THE STRANGE MAN OF THE OGLALAS
New York, Alfred A. KNopf, 1942.
$400
Sigebertus, ofGembtoux (Sigebert)
SIGEBERTI GEMBLACENSIS COENOBITAE CHRONICON AD ANNO 381AD 1113CUM INSERTIONIBUS EX HISTORIA GALFRIDI &ADDITIONIBUS ROBERTI ABBATIS MONTIS ...., ,
Paris, Ioannis Petit, 1513.
$4000
-22-
St. Teresa's Press
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD
Flemington, N.J., St Teresa's Press, (1966).
$400
St. Teresa's Press
PSALMS OF PRAISE
Flemington, N. J., St. Teresa's Press, 1967.
$600
-23-
Thoreau, Henry D.
HERE THEN IS THAT HELPFUL AS WELL AS ENNOBLING DISCOURSEENTITLED THE ESSAY ON FRIENDSHIP
East Aurora, New York, The Roycrofters, 1903.
$2000
Watkins, Vernon
TALIESIN AND THE MOCKERS
Monmouthshire, The Old Stile Press, 2004.
$1500
-24-
Turner, William M.
A TRIP TO THE NORTH POLE
Akron, The Saalfield Publishing Co., n.d. (1910).
$1500
Wolfe, Richard J.
ON IMPROVEMENTS IN MARBLING THE EDGES OF BOOKS AND PAPER
Newtown, PA, Bird & Bull Press, 1983.
$250