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THE MEDIEVAL DRAGON.
The Nature of the Beast in Germanic Literature.
Enfield Lock: Hisarlik Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.viii,151, navy hardcover, gilt; owner’s catalogue no.s to upper margin of front free endpaper, a fine copy, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE MEDIEVAL PROFESSIONAL READER AT WORK: Evidence from Manuscripts of Chaucer, Langland, Kempe, and Gower.
Victoria: University of Victoria, 2001. 8vo.,pp. 239, paperback, b/w illustrations; ownership inscription to half title page, rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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THE MIROUR OF MANS SALUACIOUNE A Middle English translation of Speculum Humanae Salvationis.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. 4to., pp. 347, brown cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; very light toning to endpapers, else a near-fine copy, in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, sunned to spine and outer margins, some light creasing and rubbing to extremities.
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THE OLD ENGLISH ELEGIES: A Critical Edition And Genre Study.
London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001. 8vo.,pp. xv,469, paperback, b/w plates; cracking to inner hinge at p.92 and p.234 but all content still firm, occasional pencilling, creasing to spine and light rubbing to extremities, overall a very good copy.
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THE PARDON OF PIERS PLOWMAN:
Sir Israel Gaollancz Memorial Lecture, from the Proceedings of the Royal Academy Volume XXXI.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege. Offprint edition, 8vo., pp.57, original printed wrappers, uncut; fore-edges of wrappers browned and creased, with a few small tears, a good copy, which is internally fresh and very good.
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THE PERFECT AGE OF MAN’S LIFE.
Cambridge University Press. 8vo.,pp. xiii,175, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations; a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has light creasing to extremities and two adhesive marks to rear where labels have been removed.
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THE PORTRAITS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER. An Essay Written on the Occasion of the Quincentenary of the Poet’s Death.
London: Adlard and Son, 1900. Limited edition of 50 copies, 8vo.,pp. 30, vellum, black and red lettering, b/w plates; off set to endpapers, toning to edges of text block and lightly to margins, boards mottles and slightly bowed and rubbed to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE ROMANS OF PARTENAY, Or of Lusignen: Otherwise Known as The Tale of Melusine: Translated from the French of La Coudrette (about 1500-1520 A.D.). Early English Text Society, Original Series, No.22.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & CO, 1899. 8vo., pp.xx,287, uncut, paperback (printed wrappers); ink mark struck through the advertisements to rear wrapper and front wrapper verso, internally fresh, with shelf-wear to extremities of wrappers, a good copy.
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THE SAGA OF KING SVERRI (SVERRISAGA)
Felinfach: Llanerch Publishers, 1994. Facsimile reprint of the 1899 edition. 8vo., pp.xxx,288,(8), paperback, b/w maps to rear; near-fine.
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THE SAXON SAVIOR.
The Germanic Transformation of the Gospel in the Ninth-Century Heliand.
Oxford University Press, 1989. 8vo., pp.xiii,129, black cloth, gilt; a fine copy, in a very good+ unclipped dust-jacket, just lightly creased to front upper margin.
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THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM.
Oxford: published by the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.xcix,224, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; slight foxing to top edges, else fresh and near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE SIEGE OF RHODES (1482). With: AESOP: THE BOOK OF SUBTYL HISTORIES AND FABLES OF ESOPE (1484).
Delmar, New York: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1975. Facsimile reprint, 8vo., pp.6,unpaginated,Aesop:(192)versos,192(rectos), green cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fine copy, without dust-jacket, as issued.
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TOLKIEN MYTHS AND LEGENDS (BOXED SET). [Four Volume Set in a Slipcase] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrun; The Fall of Arthur; Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary.
London: Harper Collins, 2025. Four volumes, 8vo., pp.255;377;233;xiii,425, black hardcover, gilt; a mint set, still in shrinkwrap. RRP £100.
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TRANSFORMING TALK. The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England.
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. 8vo., pp.x,238, black cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece/pictorial title, b/w plates; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, a fine copy in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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TRINITY APOCALYPSE. Anglo-Norman Text Society No. LXXIII (for 2016).
Oxford: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2016. 8vo., pp. xxxiii,140, green hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece; a fine copy.
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VOICES AGAINST SILENCE: JULIAN OF NORWICH AND MARGERY KEMPE.
A Feminist Approach to Language.
Poznan: Motivez, 1996. 8vo., pp.194, paperback; lightly sunned to spine/margins of rear wrapper, a very good, clean copy.
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WAR AND COMBAT, 1150-1270. The Evidence from Old French Literature.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer,2003. 8vo., pp.ix,261, brown hardcover, gilt, with printed label to front board; ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, a fresh and near-fine copy.
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WISDOM AND CHIVALRY.
Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and Medieval Political Theory. Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts, Volume 4.
Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2009. 8vo., pp.xvi,329, glazed hardcover; ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper and author’s inscription to front free endpaper, slight bruise to upper edge of front board, else a fine, fresh copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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WORDS AND WORKS: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. 8vo.,pp. 310, red cloth, black lettering, with emblem to front board, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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YEE? BAW FOR BOKES.
Essays on Medieval Manuscripts and Poetics. In Honor of Hoyt N. Duggan.
Los Angeles: Tsehai Publishers, 2013. 8vo., pp.x,296, navy cloth, gilt; a fine copy in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly creased to upper margin of spine.
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