Author: LOOMIS, ROGER SHERMAN; LOOMIS, LAURA HIBBARD
Title: Medieval Romances: Edited for the Modern Reader (Modern Library #133. 2)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1958]. Hardcover. A collection of stories from the Middle Ages in a Modern Library edition. Includes: "Tristan and Isolt" by von Strassburg, "Perceval, or the Story of the Grail" by de Troyes, "Havelok the Dane", "The Book of Balin" by Sir Thomas Malory and many others. Edited by Roger Sherman Loomis (who has also supplied an introduction) and Laura Hibbard Loomis. With list of suggested related readings at rear of volume. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i / verso advertises 380 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1958 (though 1957 date appears in book). ML #133.2. --- With light chafing and a couple of shallow dents to covers, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped jacket with small tears & chafing to extremities but remaining bright and intact; protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xi, 426, (8, ads) pages. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions
Title: Medieval Romances: Edited for the Modern Reader (Modern Library #133. 2)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1958]. Hardcover. A collection of stories from the Middle Ages in a Modern Library edition. Includes: "Tristan and Isolt" by von Strassburg, "Perceval, or the Story of the Grail" by de Troyes, "Havelok the Dane", "The Book of Balin" by Sir Thomas Malory and many others. Edited by Roger Sherman Loomis (who has also supplied an introduction) and Laura Hibbard Loomis. With list of suggested related readings at rear of volume. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i / verso advertises 380 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1958 (though 1957 date appears in book). ML #133.2. --- With light chafing and a couple of shallow dents to covers, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped jacket with small tears & chafing to extremities but remaining bright and intact; protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xi, 426, (8, ads) pages. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions
Price: US$ 16.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86323
- Book number: 86323