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Stories of King Arthur and his Knights (retold from Malory's Morte Darthur)
by Cutler, U. Waldo
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good, missing d/j, green cloth boards good, gilt ruling faded but spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked, go
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About This Item
London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1926. reprint. hardback. Very good, missing d/j, green cloth boards good, gilt ruling faded but spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked, good illustration b/w plates. School prize inscription on ffep.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). The material for the Arthur stories came from many countries and from many different periods of history. Much of it is wholly fanciful, but the writers connected all the incidents directly or indirectly with the old Briton king of the fifth century, who was the model of knighthood, ""without fear and without reproach."" Perhaps there was a real King Arthur, who led the Britons against the Saxon invaders of their land, who was killed by his traitor nephew, and who was buried at Glastonbury,-the valley of Avilion of the legends; perhaps there was a slight historical nucleus around which all the romantic material was crystallising through the centuries, but the Arthur of romance came largely from the imagination of the early writers. And yet, though our ""own ideal knight"" may never have trod the soil of Britain or Roman or Saxon England, his chivalrous character and the knightly deeds of his followers are real to us, if we read them rightly, for ""the poet's ideal was the truest truth.""
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC78851
- Title
- Stories of King Arthur and his Knights (retold from Malory's Morte Darthur)
- Author
- Cutler, U. Waldo
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, missing d/j, green cloth boards good, gilt ruling faded but spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked, go
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George G. Harrap & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
- Pages
- 236
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, myth, young people, Malory, Cutler
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
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- Reprint
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- Cloth
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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