The Book of Merlin by T. H. White - 2011 Fantasy Reprint

Austin, 1977, 1st, Shaftsbury. Cloth, 7x10, 137p, DW ( sunned). Illus. by Trevor Stubley. A previously unpublished 4th and final part of The Once and Future King. We much preferred the original edition of The Sword and the Stone, rather than the revised version of 1940.

Not ex-library, no internal marks, clean and tight.

University of Texas, 2011 Fantasy Reprint. near fine . Trade paperback.

Austin: University of Texas Press [0-292-70718-5] 1977. (Small 4to) 137pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Illustrations. The dust jacket spine is faded and is rubbed front and back. "This volume reveals more of White himself than the previous books of the the Once and Future King tetralogy - and therein lies much of its interest. White, a pacifist, considered the theme of Morte d'Arthur to be a quest for an antidote to war. The Book of Merlyn was written during his personal struggle with the question of whether to go to war against Nazi Germany". Based on the work of The Once and Future King. Illustrations by Trevor Stubley. Preface by Sylvia Townsend Warner. (Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Pacifism, Warfare).