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The Mystery of King Arthur
by Jenkins, Eliabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0517635313
- ISBN 13
- 9780517635315
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Portland House, 1987. Hardcover, blue cloth in original non price clipped dust-jacket. 224pp., lierary references, bibliography of other sourdes used, index. 16 full color plates and 80 black and white illustrations. Reprint edition of 1975 Coward ,McCann & Geoghegan edition; first printing thus. No previous ownership marks. An exploration of the King Arthur myth dealing with all the familiar concepts of the Round Table, the High History of the Holy Grail, the Star Temple of Glastonbury, the tragedy of Lancelot and Guinevere, and beginning with Arthur's mystical accociation with water. From Thomas Malory's prose work to Tennyson's verse the author examines the histoprical and literary development of question, who was King Arthur. A very clean, square, copy in a glossy pictorial dust-jacket. No faults, no tears, no marks. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket.. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006113
- Title
- The Mystery of King Arthur
- Author
- Jenkins, Eliabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0517635313
- ISBN 13
- 9780517635315
- Publisher
- Portland House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- English History, Mythology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Britain: Histroy, Culture, Etc;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.