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THE CID AND HIS SPAIN.
London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1934. New impression, 8vo., pp.xiv,474, red cloth, gilt, folding genealogy to rear of volume; very good indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to the spine.
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A CONCORDANCE TO JOHN GOWER’S CONFESSIO AMANTIS. Publications of the John Gower Society, I.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1987. 8vo.,pp. x,1124, black cloth, silver lettering; light shelf wear to edges of text block, otherwise clean and a very good copy, in a very good price clipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities, light sunning to spine with light chipping to head and foot of spine and corners.
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A COMPANION TO GOWER.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2005. 8vo.,pp. 286, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w figures; light sunning to spine, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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JOHN GOWER'S POETIC: The Search for a New Arion. Publications of the John Gower Society, II.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1990. 8vo.,pp. 289, hardcover, silver lettering; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers, light bump to upper corners of boards, otherwise a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities with chipping to head and foot of spine with light wear to corners and sunning to spine.
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CHAUCER'S LEGENDARY GOOD WOMEN.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.xi,i,338, brown hardcover, gilt; a near-fine copy in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed.
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BEDE’S ECCLESISTICAL HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969. 8vo.,pp. lxxvi, 618, navy hardcover, bronze lettering to spine; ownership inscription to front paste down endpaper, small patch of wear to inner hinge with webbing slightly visible but otherwise firm, light foxing to upper edge of text block, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GERALD OF WALES.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005. 8vo.,pp. 373, paperback, b/w illustrations; a very good, clean copy.
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STRANGE LIKENESS. The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 8vo.,pp. viii,266, hardcover, gilt; pencilling throughout, front free endpaper marked as damages with ownership doodle surrounding ink stamp, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and lightly worn to corners, overall a very good working copy.
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PREMODERN PLACES: Calais To Surinam, Chaucer To Alphra Behn.
Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. 8vo.,pp. ix,342, paperback, b/w illustrations; a very good, clean copy.
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THE CRAFT OF DYING: A STUDY IN THE LITERARY TRADITION OF THE ARS MORIENDI IN ENGLAND. Yale Studies in English, 175.
New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1970. 8vo., pp.xii,299, brown cloth, gilt neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, light sunning to spine, a very good, internally fresh copy.
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LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN MEDIEVAL BRITAIN. The French of England c.1100-c.1500.
York Medieval Press, 2009. 8vo., pp.xxii,533, navy hardcover, gilt, 22 b/w illustrations; inscription from the editor to front free endpaper, very slight shelf-wear to extremities, a very good copy indeed, in an unclipped dust-jacket which is very lightly shelf-worn, else very good indeed.
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THE BOUNDARIES OF THE HUMAN IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE,.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 8vo., pp.xi,257, navy hardcover, gilt; very slight rubbing to lower extremities, else a fine copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket which is lightly shelf-worn, otherwise very good indeed.
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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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POLYDORE VERGIL: Renaissance Historian and Man of Letters.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952. 8vo.,pp. xiii,223, navy cloth, gilt; toning to leaves with toning and foxing to edges of text block, off setting and toning to endpapers, lightly rubbing to boards with small knock to upper rear upper edge, overall a very good copy. No 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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BEOWULF AND THE DRAGON. Parallels and Analogues.
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000. 8vo., pp. x,230, navy hardcover, with pale blue title label to front board, gilt lettering to spine; upper section of front free endpaper cropped, otherwise a clean and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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ON OLD ENGLISH: Selected Papers.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. 8vo., pp.x,363, hardcover, silver lettering; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to spine.
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SIXTY-FIVE ANGLO-SAXON RIDDLES.
Felinfach: Llanerch, 1998. 8vo., pp.147, paperback; ownership autograph to prelim blank, a very good, internally clean copy, with just slight creasing to wrappers.
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WIDSITH: A Study In Old English Heroic Legend.
New York: Russell & Russell, 1965. Reissued, 8vo.,pp. ix,263, burgundy cloth, gilt; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, occasional pencilling, toning to margins and edges of text block, with water staining to inner hinges of endpapers and to upper edge of text block, light rubbing to extremities, light water staining to boards and to spine, else a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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BEOWULF AND OLD GERMANIC METRE.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.xii,235, navy hardcover, gilt; ink ownership signature to front free endpaper, light glue staining to paste-down endpapers, bruising to front board extremities and lightly to spine, slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket which is slightly soiled and rubbed to headband, else very good.
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