Wales and the Arthurian Legend by Loomis, Roger Sherman - 1956

Wales 003 Loomis, Roger Sherman. Wales and the Arthurian legend. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1956, 231p, index, illus. Bound in blue cloth, some shelf wear, most around tips and top of spine, some offsetting on front free endpaper from review, good, solid, tight copy else.
There are occasional, insignificant pencilled marginalia except on pages 8 and 9 and on the back free endpaper, which have heavy notations. Howard Patch's review (Romance Philology, Vol. XI, No. 2, November 1957, pages 168-170), incorporating some of these notes is laid in. Also is a handwritten two page letter from Loomis to Patch thanking him for the review; commenting on the references to Arthuriana in the press; plans for future works for Loomis and his wife, Laura; concern for critical condition of Patch's son-in-law. Signed, Roger. $85.00 Box 70, shelf 2

University of Wales Press. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. A couple of small tears to DJ front panel and head of spine and with chipping to spine ends. DJ spine is discolored and price-clipped. Light wear to spine ends. Scholar's name on ffep (Peter H. Salus). Light tanning to pages. ; Contents: Segontium, Caer Seint, and Sinadon; Irish Origin and the Welsh Development of the Grail Legend; Chastiel Bran, Dinas Bran, and the Grail Castle; Bran the Blessed and Sone de Nausay; King Arthur and the Antipodes; Welsh Elements in Gawain and the Green Knight; The Combat at the Ford in the Didot Perceval; Morgain la Fée and the Celtic Goddesses; Spoils of Annwn: An Early Welsh Poem; the Arthurian Legend before 1139. ; 238 pages .

University of Wales Press. 1956. University of Wales Press. Cardiff. 1956. First edition. Hardback with DW. Endpapers browned, A lovely copy in wrapper that has been price-clipped by publishers with new price printed, has a small nick to spine and is worn, sunned and spotted to spine and margins of front and rear panels.