Book of the Three Dragons
by Kenneth Morris
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
€324.39€291.95
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 8.5". Ferdinand Huszti Horvath . The first edition, first printing of Kenneth Morris's reworking of a classic Welsh legend, illustrated throughout by Ferdinand Huszti Horvath. The first edition, first printing. The scarce trade issue with "Longmans, Green" imprint on title page, and "first edition" to colophon, rather than the later and more common "Junior Literary Guild" issue. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates by Hungarian illustrator and sketch artist Ferdinand Huszti Horvath. Collated, complete.In this work, Morris relays the early welsh legend of 'Mabinogion', tales compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th and13th centuries, from earlier oral traditions. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bump to back strip tail. Fading to back strip and board perimeters. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 901F49
- Title
- Book of the Three Dragons
- Author
- Kenneth Morris
- Illustrator
- Ferdinand Huszti Horvath
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co
- Place of Publication
- New York and Toronto
- Date Published
- 1930
- Size
- 10.5" by 8.5"
- Keywords
- Ferdinand Hustzi Hovrath Celtic fantasy Mabinogion welsh legend Celtic fantasy Mabinogion
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...