Decorations by John Atherton (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. (New York): Holiday House, 1935. First edition thus. Slight rub-wear to shelf-edges, light rubbing to the covers, else very good in silver-gray over red linen with black titles and sword and helmet illustration to the front cover, and with black titles to the spine; in a very good dust jacket with small chips to upper and lower spine edges and corner tips, short shelf-edge tears, and with a very small stain drop to the rear panel; original printed $2.00 price still intact to the front inner flap. One of the earliest depictions of English knighthood, and a source for Arthurian tales, written by an unknown twelfth-century troubadour who heard the tale related at the court of Don Pedro, king of Aragon. In a lively translation by Vernon Ives.…