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THE GESTS OF KING ALEXANDER OF MACEDON.
Two Middle-English Alliterative Fragments, Alexander A and Alexander B. Edited with the Latin Sources Parallel (Orosius and the Historia De Preliis, J-Recension), With Introduction, Notes, Appendices, and Index.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1929. 8vo., pp.xi,261, claret cloth, gilt, 2 b/w plates; very minimal pencilling within, and lightly pencilled notes to rear endpapers, extremities rubbed, a very good copy.
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THE LEGEND OF BRYNHILD.
Islandica XLIII.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980. First edition, 8vo., pp.270, blue cloth, gilt; small ownership inscription to front free endpaper, foxing to endpapers and edges, a good+ copy in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly toned and lightly rubbed to edges.
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THE LIFE OF ST. NORBERT BY JOHN CAPGRAVE, O.E.S.A. (1393-1464).
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1977. 8vo., pp.ix,179, paperback (red academic wrappers lettered in black), b/w frontispiece; sunning to spine and upper margins of wrappers, light toning within, else a very good, clean copy.
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THE LYFE OF SIR THOMAS MOORE, KNIGHTE,
Written by William Roper, Esquire, which married Margreat, daughter of the sayed Thomas Moore.
Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Co, 1978. Facsimile reprint of the 1958 Early English Text Society edition, 8vo, pp.142, brown cloth, gilt; pale foxing to endpapers and edges, light bloom to cloth, else very good. No dust-jacket.
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THE MAKING OF MIDDLE ENGLISH, 1765-1910.
Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 8vo., pp.xxxvii,231, black hardcover lettered in white; a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine.
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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 MURTHLY HOURS.
Devotion, Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England and the Gaelic West.
London: The British Library, 2000. 8vo.,pp. xxii,362, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, colour plates, CD to rear pocket; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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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 OLD ENGLISH VERSION OF THE GOSPELS. [Two-Volume Set:] Volume I. Text and Introduction; Volume II. Notes and Glossary. [O. S. 304 and 314]
Early English Text Society, 1994. 8vo., pp.lxxviii,202;xxii,369, brown cloth, gilt, folding b/w plate to Volume I; neat ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper of both volumes, a fine set, Volume II in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE OLDEST ENGLISH TEXTS. [OS 83]
Early English Text Society, 1966. 8vo., pp.viii,668, brown cloth, gilt; neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper, just slight tone to edges, a clean and very good+ copy.
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THE OXFORD PSALTER. (Bodleian MS Douce 320) Anglo-Norman Text Society Volume 72.
St. Peter’s College, Oxford: Published and distributed by the Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2015. 8vo., pp.xv,236, green hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece; a fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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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 PIERS PLOWMAN GLOSSARY: WILL'S VISIONS OF PIERS PLOWMAN, DO-WELL, DO-BETTER AND DO-BEST. A GLOSSARY OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY OF THE A, B AND C VERSIONS AS PRESENTED IN THE ATHLONE EDITIONS.
London: Continuum, 2005. 8vo.,pp. xiii,240, green printed hardcover, white lettering; light toning to margins, light sunning to spine, small indentation marks along front hinge, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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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 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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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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