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THE FAMILIAR ENEMY.
Oxford University Press, 2009. 8vo., pp.xxx,444, paperback; a fresh and near-fine copy, with slight rubbing to head of spine.
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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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FOUR WYCLIFFITE DIALOGUES.
Unites States: Oxford University Press, 2009. 8vo., pp., lxxi,151, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a near fine copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket
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TIMARION. Byzantine Texts in Translation.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984. 8vo., pp.ix,161, terracotta cloth, gilt; ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper; a very good, clean copy, in good price clipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine, with small closed tear to front upper margin and rubbing to extremities.
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PRINT CULTURE IN RENAISSANCE ITALY. The Editor and the Vernacular Text 1470-1600.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Reprint, 8vo., pp. xvi,265, hardcover, black lettering; light toning to boards, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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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 BATTLE OF MALDON: TOGETHER WITH THE HOMECOMING OF BEORHTNOTH.
HarperCollins, 2023. Deluxe Collector’s edition, 8vo., pictorial hardcover, gilt, colour frontispiece, ribbon bookmark; mint copy, housed in matching slipcase, and still in shrinkwrap. Includes a digitally remastered recording of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth read by J.R.R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien, available on CD for the first time.
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BLUE IN OLD ENGLISH. An Interdisciplinary Semantic Study. Costerus New Series 110.
Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1997. 8vo., pp.333, paperback; slight shelfwear, a very good, fresh copy.
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THE BOOK OF THE LOVER AND THE BELOVED. Lo Libre de Amich e Amat; Librum Amici et Amati. An English Translation with Latin and Old Catalan Versions Transcribed from Original Manuscripts.
Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1995. 8vo., pp.xxxiii,141, yellow hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 3 further illustrations; neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, otherwise a near fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket.
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POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
A Festschrift for Peter Dronke.
Leiden: Brill, 2001. 8vo., pp.392,(ii), blue cloth, gilt; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, editor’s autograph to title, a fresh and near-fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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LYDGATE AND BURGH'S SECREES OF OLD PHILOSOFFRES.
A Version of The ‘Secreta Secretorum’. Edited from the Sloane MS. 2464.
London: Early English Text Society/Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1894. First edition, 8vo., pp.10,xxxiv,121, uncut and partially unopened, lilac paper wrappers; wear to wrappers, an otherwise very good, fresh copy.
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THE EVOLUTION OF ARTHURIAN ROMANCE.
The Verse Tradition from Chretien to Froissart.
Cambridge University Press, 1998. 8vo., pp.xlix,321, brown hardcover, gilt; ownership inscription to front pate-down endpaper (covered by dust-jacket), a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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CONCEPTUALIZING MULTILINGUALISM IN ENGLAND, c.800-c.1250.
Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. 8vo., pp.xi,368,(ii), pictorial hardcover; pencilling to Introduction, else near-fine.
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CURSOR MUNDI. A Northumbrian Poem of the XIVth Century. Four Versions. [Set of Seven Volumes:] Parts I - V. Text; Part VI. Preface, Notes and Glossary; Part VII. Essay on the Manuscripts and Dialect.
Published for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1961. Set of seven volumes, reprinted, 8vo., paperback wrappers, b/w frontispiece; a fresh and near-fine set, with just slight wear to wrappers.
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KNYGHTHODE AND BATAILE. A XVth Century Verse Paraphrase of Flavius Vegetius Renatus’ Treatise. ‘De Re Militari’
Oxford: Early English Text Society, 1971. Unaltered Reprint, 8vo.,pp. lxxvi,205, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; foxing to edges of text block, light sunning to spine, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket.
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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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Early English Text Society Extra Series, LXXV. SPECULUM GY DE WAREWYKE.
An Early English Poem. With Introduction, Notes and Glossary.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1898. 8vo., pp.cxcvi,116, uncut and unopened, lilac wrappers; sunning to spine and margins, light shelfwear to wrappers, a very good copy.
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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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BEOWULF AND FOUR RELATED OLD ENGLISH POEMS.
A Verse Translation with Explanatory Notes.
New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. Signed by the author, 8vo., pp.xxv,170, pictorial cloth, black lettering; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, very slightly bruised to upper corner of front board, otherwise a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE EGERTON VERSION OF MANDEVILLE'S TRAVELS.
Early English Text Society, No. 336.
Oxford University Press, 2010. 8vo., pp.xxx,230, brown cloth, gilt, two colour frontispieces; a fine copy, in a fine and fresh unclipped dust-jacket.
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