The Boy's King Arthur Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+. 1947. Later Printing. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; Rebound edition. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. This copy has been professionally rebound. This is a later printing, with a color frontispiece and 7 full color illustrations throughout. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate (LeRoy V. Brandt) on the front pastedown page. The front dust jacket panel has been pasted onto the front endpaper. "Sidney Clopton Lanier (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis) , taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer. As a poet he sometimes, though not exclusively, used dialects. Many of his poems are written in heightened, but often archaic, American English. He became a flautist and sold poems to publications. He eventually became a professor of literature at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and is known for his adaptation of musical meter to poetry. Many schools, other structures and two lakes are named for him, and he became hailed in the South as the "poet of the Confederacy". A 1972 US postage stamp honored him as an "American poet". " (from Wikipedia) .