The Boy's King Arthur
by Malory, Sir Thomas; Sidney Lanier
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Hardcover
- Seller
-
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. First Wyeth edition. Very good. Hardcover. 4to. 321pp. Black cloth with a full color paste-on to the upper board. Pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt. Complete with 14 full page full color plates by N. C. Wyeth, in addition to the full color frontispiece. Spine sunned and light wear to the corners and edges but a very good copy of the scarce first Wyeth edition, many times reprinted.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thorn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23401
- Title
- The Boy's King Arthur
- Author
- Malory, Sir Thomas; Sidney Lanier
- Format/Binding
- Very good
- Book Condition
- Used - Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Wyeth edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1917
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arthurian;
Terms of Sale
Thorn Books
All books returnable for any reason within seven days, providing only that they are received in the same condition as shipped. Shipments to an Arizona address must add appropriate sales tax. Libraries billed.
About the Seller
Thorn Books
Biblio member since 2003
Tucson, Arizona
About Thorn Books
Thorn Books offers antiquarian, rare and out-of-print books. Frequently updated catalogues are available online in our specialty areas: King Arthur; Early Britain; Western Americana; California; Literature; and Rare Books. We are open by appointment only. Thorn Books is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers of American (ABAA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), and the Independent League of Online Booksellers (IOBA).
Glossary
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...