katherine buck (18 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Fine.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Good. 1925. No Edition Remarks. 373 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages remain bright with minimal tanning. Boards have light edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and spine is presentable with minimal crushing and tanning.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; iv, 86 pages, 1 unnumbered leave of plates : illustrations (frontispiece) ; 21 cm. Subjects; Maximus Emperor of the West -388. Maximus Magnus, emperor of Rome d. 388. Coronations Great Britain History To 1500. Coronations Great Britain History To 500. London (England) Description and travel. London (England) Antiquities. England Antiquities. Ancient history. Roman history. 3 Kg.

Green Cloth. Zustand: Good. Elizabeth Goodman (illustrator). Their deeds in the 4th and 5th centuries AD as told from the 10th to the 13th centuries. Collected, set in order, and retold in verse in the 20th century. PART I ONLY. (6pp details for the various volumes of this title), (vi), xii, 378pp, illustrated with black & whte plates, occasional spotting (more heavily to prelims), pp128/9 tanned where a newspaper clipping has been laid in, top edge gilt, other edges roughly trimmed with some spotting, original green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper board, small pale marks to upper board, spine has a crease to bottom margin and is a little faded. Size: 8.75 x 7 Inches. Myths and Legends.

First Edition. Poor copy in the original decorated gilt-blocked cloth. Wear and tear as with age, with one page detached but loosely inserted. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Includes previous owner's signature. Provenance; from the library of Abraham C. Myrick with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; xix,[1], 221 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Dietrich von Bern. Wayland the Smith. Heldensage. Nibelungen, Legend of the. 3 Kg.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. This copy is Part II of the Wayland-Dietrich Saga. Card covers are worn with tearing at outer edges and areas of loss, as well as notable stain to upper half of front and rear, front is also half torn away from spine, must be handled with care; spine is creased and stained with areas of loss at upper and lower edges; binding is mostly tight though joint occasionally internally exposed; rough-cut pages are unmarked but red stain has marked preliminaries. This copy shows signs of age and wear, should be handled carefully. ; 7 x 0.5 x 8.6 inches; 98 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. xxii, 222pp. Green cloth-covered boards; gilt design and titles on front, gilt titles on spine; top text block edge gilt, remaining edges uncut and untrimmed. 8vo. Slightly sun-faded spine, rubbed spine ends; some wear to rear board. Top text block edge gilt fading, remaining edges tanning. Free endpapers tanning; pages ageing, volume shaken. Otherwise, internally neat and clean.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. xii 378p large format hardback, moss-green cloth with attractive gilt lettering, binding firm, a little light wear, pages clean and bright, b&w line illustrations very clear and sharp, one part of blank endpaper missing, erratum slip present and intact, a very well-kept copy of the first volume Language: English.

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The Song of Wayland' is a monumental epic poem that reconstructs and reimagines the vast cycle of legends surrounding Wayland the Smith, the master craftsman of Germanic and Norse mythology. This ambitious work weaves together threads from the 'Poetic Edda', Anglo-Saxon folklore, and medieval chivalric traditions to create a comprehensive narrative of the hero's life and his broader mythic context.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The Song of Wayland' is a monumental epic poem that reconstructs and reimagines the vast cycle of legends surrounding Wayland the Smith, the master craftsman of Germanic and Norse mythology. This ambitious work weaves together threads from the 'Poetic Edda', Anglo-Saxon folklore, and medieval chivalric traditions to create a comprehensive narrative of the hero's life and his broader mythic context.

Zustand: OTTIMO USATO. I ED. THE WAYLAND-DIETRICH SAGA INGLESE CON ALCUNI DISEGNI IN BIANCO E NERO A COMMENTO DEL TESTO Numero Pagine 83.

Softcover. Zustand: Fair. Seven volumes (of nine) containing Nos. 4 to 24 of Dietrich and His Companions, issued in parts. Uniformly bound sewn in stiff card wraps with yapped edges. Thirteen plate illustrations across all seven volumes. 8vos. Covers are worn and chapped at edges, toned in margins and faded but internally the text blocks are spotted but otherwise generally clean and neat; the first signature in the volume containing Nos. 4-6 is lose. The Wayland-Dietrich Saga: The Saga of Dietrich of Bern and his Companions is a multi-volume work published 1924-1939. It is a comprehensive re-rendering in verse by Katherine M Buck of various Germanic legends, featuring Dietrich of Bern (a mythical knight loosely based on Theodoric the Great) and his adventures purportedly in the 4th and 5th centuries, as retold in medieval literature. This set lack volume one, which contains Nos. 1-3 and volume nine which was a supplement (index?) to the initial eight volumes.  .

Five copies listed on JISC. Now scarce. 8pp, 16mo. Stitched pamphlet, on good wove paper. In fair condition, lightly aged, with small closed tear at head of first leaf. First two leaves with light crease. Enfolded in 'wallet' of the same paper, repeating the title on the front (differently positioned), and also giving the price as sixpence. The poem, covering pp.2-7, is in small print, and the first stanza reads: 'I bind upon myself to-day / The Strength of the Holy Trinity: / That mighty Breastplate be my Stay! / I here invoke . . . I here confess . . . / The Three in One, the One in Three! / Creator! Judge! Wilt Thou not bless?' On the final page, above Mayhew's device and the slug, is a fifteen-line note by 'A. H. M.', including the following: 'The foregoing adaptation is based upon prose translations by Dr. Todd and Dr. Whitley Stokes, and a comparison with the Ancient Irish Text. Though made for the "Wayland-Dietrich Saga" it is felt that a separate impression may not be unacceptable.' Nearly a century later, there is still a bookshop on the same site, one of the few to survive the decline of the Charing Cross Road.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Large 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered and illustrated in gilt at the spines and front covers. illustrations by Elizabeth Goodman. Published between 1924-1929. Signed presentation from the author in the index volume, "To my friends: Alan [Hunter 1922-2005] and Adelaide Hunter - St Valentine's Day", with a 21 line MS poem in her hand and signed "Katherine M. Buck, Feb. 14th 1948". With good signed handwritten poem by the author addressed to Franklin D. Roosevelt and original publishing booklet loosely inserted. Heavy-- postage abroad will be a bit extra! Clea, very good+ set with volume one slightly sunned. Signedes.