The Story of King Arthur by Howard Pyle, Scribner (29 results)

Condition: Good. Illus. By The Author (illustrator). Good condition. (juvenile fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Softcover. xvi, 312 pp. originally published in 1903 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Softcover. LCC: 486214451 Good condition; on covers: light yellowing on rear, touches of wear, and creasing on upper left corner of rear; yellowing and some foxing on edges of papers; light yellowing on inside surfaces of covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. AN EXCELLENT READING OR REFERENCE COPY! Hardcover. NO DUST JACKET. Pages are clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned and foxed. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.05.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Pyle, Howard (illustrator). Cover is worn and dirty. Pages are brown. Has previous ownership written in it. Has a pocket and date due slip glued in the back.

Condition: VG-/FAIR ONLY (see notes). reprint. 8vo. 312pp. Rear end paper starting over hinge. Label partly removed rear e. p., no other LIB indicators. Chips, tears, etc to fragile DJ. Condition of the book technically not great, but it is fairly bright. Original of this edition was 1902. Scans on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint.

Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Pyle, Howard (illustrator). 1st Edition. 3rd printing, Charles Scribner's Sons, Hudson River Edition. Blue-Cloth over Board Hardcover 313-pages & 3-blank pages in back. fine, DJ vg with closed tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Howard Pyle (illustrator). This is an early printing, but not a first printing (that was in 1903). Binding is a bit age-dulled with light wear to the extremities. No distortion of the book from reading or improper shelving. Front hinge paper is broken but the hinge is still strong. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. A very small water stain at the extreme lower foredge corner of the first few pages. No name of previous owner. No odor. No dust jacket.

Large 8vo, pp. 313. Illustrated by the author. Hinges tender, cover soiled and worn. Interior good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Wear to tips of hardboards to board, fraying of upper and lower spine, , hinges bit loose though holding solid; Clean, no markings, full of illustraions by author; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Pyle, Howard (illustrator). 312pp.; HB beige w/red,blk.&gilt-pic.cover; slight rub w/wear on edges&corners; spine darkened; clean,tight pgs. The Book of King Arthur & The Book of Three Worthies. illus. orig.pub.1903.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No markings. Brandywine edition.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. November 1903 first Scribner edition. Illustrated by Pyle. (Matching dates 1903 front and verso of title page). Paper cracked on the joints. Tiny amount of ink to flyleaf. Text block tight and unmarked. No jacket. A41 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A VERY GOOD FIRST IN CLOTH.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Howard Pyle (illustrator). First Thus. Original publisher's red gilt cloth with round color pictorial pastedown/ This edition has a frontispiece and note by W. J. Aylward, pupil of Howard Pyle, and line illustrations by Robert Ball to accompany the Pyle color plates. A clean, bright and unmarked copy, fine in its thick archival Mylar plastic jacket.

Hardcover. Painted and gilt decoration on front cover. Top corners bumped; extremities rubbed; light crease at outside margin of last few pages; otherwise very good condition. . 312p. Illus.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Written and illustrated by Howard Pyle. Covers show its age but is nevertheless a handsome gorgeous old copy. Pages are clean and crisp, lightly foxed throughout. Bears previous owner's neat bookplate on ffep. Slight wrinkling to front pastedown. Cloth binding is somewhat loose on the hinge, but leaves book block in tact. Ochre cloth boards w/ heraldic print to front cover and spine; shows spotting and smudging from handling and age, and spine is somewhat thinned and frayed. BP/Case.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards with black, red and gilt illustration to front cover, same colored lettering and illustration to spine. Title and copyright pages dated 1903. 312 pages. Fair condition. Corners, spine bumped. Chipping starting at head and foot of spine. Slightly shelf cocked. Pages toned but clean. Gutters cracked. Inscription on flyleaf. Frontispiece in good shape. This version of King Arthur has charming illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Black and white plates and text illustraions throughout. (illustrator). 5th or later Edition. Edition not stated, the copyright on the verso of the title page is dated 1903 but the date on the title page is 1917. Presumably a later printing. Illustrated throughout by Howard Pyle. Publishers decorative brown cloth, slightly rubbed around edges and down the spine, else very good solid copy. 312 p. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1919 Hardcover Very Good/No Dust Jacket Illustrated by the Author; Scribner's Sons, Pub, 1919; early, original issue; very good condition; bound decorative, hard cover cloth; gold cloth with black, gold, and orange designs and lettering; minor rubbing to corners of cover, else fine; Howard Pyle; Illustrated Books.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1903-10 three volume set in mustard cloth. Boards and spine with varying degrees of wear and soil. Edgewear to spine extremities, a little bumped, mildly misshapen. Shaken. Corners bumped/rubbed, some board exposure and turned inward. Previous owner's inscriptions, dated 1903-10. Some soil to pastedowns and endpapers. Text blocks mostly clean, a little soil here and there. The Grail with split interior hinge and mull exposure. Circular stain on top edge up through pg. 9. The Story of the Champions with faded titles on spine, and detachment of rear board from top running about midway with mull exposure. Damp stain to top edge. Images will be provided upon request. Due to 3 volumes, international orders cannot be accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Original gilt-titled pictorial cloth. Frontis, illustrations. Slight edgewear to boards, slight insecting to page edges. Endpages softly creased. Early printing, first edition was 1903. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 312,[1] pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 4 vols.: xvi, 312; viii, 256; xviii, 340; xviii, 328 p. 24 cm. B&w illustrations by Pyle. Tan cloth with black, red and gold print. Some light soiling and wear to cloth. Pyle's attractive version of King Arthur with full-page illustrations, smaller in-text illustrations, and head and tail pieces. Originally published 1903-10.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First editions, first printings. Four 4to volumes, all in original mustard-color cloth with spines and upper boards blocked in black, red and gilt., With black and white illustrations by Howard Pyle. These titles have traditionally suffered cracked inner hinges because the textblock was too heavy for the binding structure. Here, the second and third volumes have perfect inner hinges. The remaining two have had minor and nearly invisible repairs to the inner hinges. Aside from this, there is minor wear at edges and spine tips, else this is a very good set. Pyle's quintessential treatment of King Arthur. "The books are lavishly decorated with Beardsleyesque headpieces, tail pieces, and full-page pen-and-ink drawings featuring enigmatic ladies, neo-Gothic furnishings and complexly patterned dress and armor."--so does Muriel Whitaker describe this set in the Arthurian Encyclopedia. Gaines C-17, 19, 21 & 27. .

Together 4 volumes, the complete series. Each volume is illustrated throughout by Howard Pyle, including illustrated frontispieces, illustrated title-pages and a great profusion of illustrations in each volume, both full-page and within the text. 4to, each volume very handsomely bound to match by Zaehnsdorf of London for Scribner's in New York in period three-quarter black morocco over marbled paper covered boards, the spines with gilt stopped raised bands separating the compartments, two compartments lettered in gilt, one compartment numbered in gilt, four compartments with central gilt ornamental devices, gilt rules to the turnovers and corners, marbled end-leaves, top edges gilt. [xviii], 312, [1]; xviii,328, [1]; xviii, 340; xviii, 258 pp. A fine set, beautifully preserved, with very little evidence of age or use, the bindings strong, tight and handsome, the tips and edges all in good order, the text-blocks and illustrations all clean and bright. A FINE AND VERY HANDSOMELY BOUND SET OF THE FOUR BOOKS OF STORIES OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. THE STORY OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS was the first in a series of four books which Pyle both wrote and illustrated concerning the legend of King Arthur. Following the first book came: THE CHAMPIONS OF THE ROUND TABLE, SIR LAUNCELOT AND HIS COMPANIONS and THE GRAIL AND THE PASSING OF ARTHUR. Perhaps one of the most monumental undertakings of his career, the books were originally issued from 1903 until 1910. As a boy, Pyle had been deeply impressed especially by Sir Thomas Malory's portrayal of the story, and drew heavily from it in his own retelling. As we turn the pages of these volumes, we are immediately drawn into the world of castles, knights, wizards, and chivalry. The black and white illustrations are rich with old world tapestry and texture and are inspirited with noble movement and emotion. Pyle emphasized to his "art students the importance of total immersion, a kind of physical and mental projection into the picture until the artist senses that he has actually become the object. Only in this manner, Pyle emphasized, can the subject come to life in the painting. 'Pictures are the creations of the imagination and not of technical facility.I subordinate that technical training entirely to the training of the imagination.'"-Susan Meyer. We grasp Pyle's immersion in his medieval subject as we journey into these powerful scenes with him. He was personally inspired by the Arthur Legend and wrote in his introduction,"For I believe that King Arthur was the most honorable, gentle Knight who ever lived in all the world. And those who were his fellows of the Round Table-taking him as their looking-glass of chivalry-made, altogether, such a company of noble knights that it is Hardly to be supposed that their like will ever be seen again in this world. Wherefore it is that I have had such extraordinary pleasure in beholding how those famous knights behaved whenever circumstances called upon them to perform their endeavor." Through Pyle's passionate and sensitive writing and illustration, we too can be stirred once again by this inspiring legend.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First editions, first printings. Four 4to volumes, all in original mustard-color cloth with spines and upper boards blocked in black, red and gilt., With black and white illustrations by Howard Pyle. This is essentially a near fine set. These titles have traditionally suffered cracked inner hinges because the textblock was too heavy for the binding structure. Here, the first, second, and fourth volumes have perfect inner hinges. The remaining volume, 'Launcelot', has a minor and nearly invisible repair to the front inner hinge. Overall this is a near fine set. Pyle's quintessential treatment of King Arthur. "The books are lavishly decorated with Beardsleyesque headpieces, tail pieces, and full-page pen-and-ink drawings featuring enigmatic ladies, neo-Gothic furnishings and complexly patterned dress and armor."--so does Muriel Whitaker describe this set in the Arthurian Encyclopedia. Gaines C-17, 19, 21 & 27. .