Search Results: Icelandic Sagas from N & A Smiles

London: London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1930 First Edition 8vo xvi,193,7pp ill., 1930 VG+ original blue cloth, just a touch of foxing to prelims, otherwise clean throughout, largely uncut, in VG slightly edgeworn DW, now protected in Brodart sleeve. Illustrated with 8 colour plates & 46 b&w drawings, photographs, and a sketch map.

New York: Dover Books 1957 Later Printing Trade Paperback 398pp ISBN: 0486203557, 1957 Ex-Library, ffep removed, plastic covered, taped to inside of covers, otherwise internally clean.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics 1989 First Thus Revised Paperback Edition ISBN 0-14-044530-7, 1989 Near Fine

London: London, etc.: Norroena Society 1906 First Edition 4to 176pp, 1906 GD+ original pictorial cloth, hinges strained, corners bumped, spine ends frayed, otherwise very clean throughout. Texts in Icelandic & English.

Reykjavik: Saga Publishing Co 1970 First Edition 4to 95pp ill., 1970 VG+ original illustrated boards, light shelf wear, head of spine pulled & taped, former owner's name in ink on ffep, illustrated throughout with b&w & colour plates, Signed by the Author.

London: Panther Books 899 April 1959 First Panther Paperback Printing, 1959 VG. Light edgewear, store-stamp with price in ink to front fly page, mild age-toning to pages, otherwise an attractive copy, very clean throughout. Cover art by John Berry. Scarce Panther Edition.

London: Norroena Society 1907 8vo xxii,342pp ill., 1907 Good original boards, edges worn, elaborate gilt design, spine amateurly rebacked, bookplate on flyleaf, illustrated with b&w plates & fold-out map. Internally near fine throughout.

University of Wisconsin Press 1965 First Edition 8vo xxix,290pp, 1965 VG original cloth, in VG DW, protected in Brodart sleeve.

London & Glasgow: London & Glasgow Collins' Clear-Type Press (Collins Pocket Classics) c.1929 18mo 317pp ill., 1929 VG original maroon boards, gilt titles to spine, light shelfwear, former owner's name in ink to half-title, dated 1929, otherwise an attractive copy, very clean throughout, in Fair-Good chipped & somewhat worn DW.

Albany, NY: Albany, NY: Joel Munsell 1868 First Edition 8vo lx,9-118pp; Charlestown, Mass: Advertiser Press 1869 First Edition 14pp Monogram, 1868 VG original brown cloth, spine ends worn, front hinge cracked, frontis. map, title page in red & black, internally very clean throughout. The first serious attempt to give credence to the discovery of America by the Northmen, and gives lengthy translations into English (some for the first time) of all the Icelandic texts referring to the subject. The author is objective and succinct in his commentaries and calls for further evaluation of the subject matter. An important early key text. Scarce First Edition.

Included is the Charlestown Advertiser Press Monogram, Notes on a Review of the Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen, published in 1869, originally published in paper covers, this has been rebound in quarter-cloth and decorative boards. The original front cover of the monogram is loose, and it has a couple of imprint stamps from the… Read More

London: George Allen & Unwin 1934 First Edition 8vo 201pp + adds, 1934 VG+ original green cloth, in VG DW, protected in Brodart sleeve. A very attractive copy, very clean throughout.

Liberty, MO: Jotun's Bane Kindred 21st September 2010 Trade Paperback ISBN 978-1452830728, 2010 Very Fine. A new unread copy. In stock, ready to ship.

Penguin Classics 1985 First Edition Paperback ISBN 0-14-044474-2, 1985 Fine

Dublin: Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son 1914 First Edition 8vo xii,404pp ill., 1914 Near Fine original blue cloth, black-stamped illustration to front board & spine, light shelfwear, internally fine throughout, illustrated with 10 monochrome plates. Adventure story based on several Icelandic Sagas. Scarce.

Brisbane: Brisbane: University of Queensland Press 2022 First UQP Trade Paperback Printing, 2022 Fine

Edinburgh & London: Edinburgh & London: Oliver & Boyd nd 18mo 120pp VG original grey illustrated cloth, former owner's name label to ffep, end-papers mildly foxed, else internally clean throughout, frontis illustration by McCall.

London & Glasgow: Collins' Clear-Type Press (Collins' Bumper Reward Books) nd (c.1931) cr.8vo 158pp Good original illustrated boards, edges worn, spine edges frayed, presentation inscription on front paste-down, colour frontispiece & title page with vignette, pencilling partially erased from half-title page, otherwise a solid copy, internally very clean throughout. Wrap-around cover art by K.E.O.

Princeton University Press 1950 First Edition 8vo 150pp, 1950 VG+ original cloth, former owner's name in ink to ffep, colour frontis illustration, in VG+ DW, protected in Brodart sleeve. Jacket art by H.G. Glyde. These three sagas from the late 10th and early 11th centuries in Iceland picture a seafaring people in a frontier land. The Saga of Gunnlaug (Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu) belongs to a group of stories about the Icelandic settlers in Borgarfjord. It is a well-knit tale of the tragic love of Gunnlaug for Helga, "the loveliest woman there has ever been in Iceland," and of the rivalry between two warrior-poets, Hrafn and Gunnlaug. A lawsuit of eight Icelandic leaders against Odd, son of Ofeig, forms the theme of The Saga of the Eight Confederates (Bandamanna saga). The saga centres on the relationships between people in a tense situation of intrigue, bribery, deceit, and shrewdness. The Saga of Droplaug's Sons (Droplaugarsona saga), a shorter saga about a family feud, is renowned… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus (The King's Classics) 1908 First Edition 18mo xxiv,260pp, 1908 VG original blind-stamped blue cloth, faded, vellum-backed, top edge gilt, former owner's name in ink on ffep, frontis. with tissue-guard, a square & solid copy, internally clean throughout. Contains sustained extracts in translation from the Eddas and several sagas.