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The Witch in the Wood: Available Copies

fair, chipped spine ends and center, rear top larger chip, price clip, couple closed tears jacket only, NO BOOK

good, spine fading, chipped top of the spine, darker folds, fold creases, $2.50 intact, reconnected at the rear spine fold, clear tape on the back jacket only, NO BOOK

8vo. hardcover. 281pp. Good, light foxing, spine sunned, light marks on cover, front endpaper clipped top corner. / no d/w.

2nd impression. [v], 677 pp. Blue cloth in jacket. Some marking and minor wear to jacket, with spine darkened. Light bumping to book's spine ends. Internally clean. The complete edition of T H White's Arthurian epic, containing all four novels. The Sword and the Stone (with two new chapters); The Witch in the Wood (rewritten and now titled The Queen of Air and Darkness); The Ill-Made Knight and the not before published The Candle in the Wind. Jacket is not price clipped. 8vo.

vii, 270 pp. With Decorations by the Author. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Tanned stain from a small bookmark on pp. 244-245; a few leaves roughly opened; very slight use to the unworn cloth; clean, tight and sound in a jacket with a sunned spine; some chipping and creasing; and slight dust-soiling to the rear panel.

The second book in White's Camelot troika that was adapted in the 1950s into the musical CAMELOT. This is the true first edition published a year before the UK first. Original blue cloth with a gilt fort on the front and a bright gilt title on the unfaded spine. Rare in its dust jacket that has edge wear , but is NOT price clipped. Now protected in a mylar sleeve. Inside , very clean and tight , with no prior owner marks, no stains and no browning. s

- Ovtavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Blue publisher's cloth titled in gilt on the spine and a vignette in gilt on the front cover, in the original illustrated dust wrapper with the price present at the top of the front flap (i.e. the dust wrapper is not price-clipped). The top edge of the book is red. The covers are slightly rubbed and bumped and there is some minor fading to the top edge. The edges of the dust jacket are creased and chipped and a small tear to the fold of the jacket's spine has been reinforced with archival linen tape from the verso. vii, [i], 269 & [1] pages, with a title page vignette and head and tail piece illustrations by T.H. White. Eight pages at the rear have been somewhat roughly opened with chipping to the front edges of 2 leaves. Good. First American edition, first printing. This American edition is the true First Edition, published the year before the British edition. This is the second book in T.H. White's Arthurian trilogy.

not price clipped original price $2.50 piece missing from the dust jacket at the top of the spine 1 inch tall piece missing blue cloth gold lettering first american edition 1939

Sticker from previous owner ; With slipcase; 16mo 6" - 7" tall

A first edition, first printing published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1939, preceding 1st British edition by a year). A fine book in a very good+ dust jacket ($2.50), with some edge wear and some tears.

First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6. The second book in White's series 'The Once and Future King'. It continues the story of the newly crowned King Arthur, his tutelage by the wise Merlyn, his war against King Lot, and also introduces the Orkney clan.

First American edition, first printing, preceding the first British edition by one calendar year. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with previous owner gift inscription to front free endpaper, pages toned and binding lightly shelf-worn. In a Very Good or better unclipped dust jacket with spine fading, light edge wear and very light staining at the base of the spine. A lovely copy.

With Decorations by the Author. NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1939. 12mo, viii 270pp. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in gold. Many b&w decorations. Spine ends a bit rubbed, sheets beginning to yellow, former owner’s name and number written at base of blank front endpapers, else a clean, tight copy in the original color pictorial d.w. (some tears and chips, one tape-mended, lightly sunned). First edition. First printing. A first edition, preceding 1st British edition by a year. A near fine book in a very good dust jacket with price intact on flap ($2.50). How Arthur, with Merlyn’s help, consolidated his kingdom after having pulled the sword from the stone and how his half-sister, Morgause (for whom the book is named), seduced the young Arthur and so conceived the evil Mordred. This was the second of White’s Arthurian novels. The title (under the name “The Queen of Air and Darkness”) as well as The Sword in the Stone and The Ill-Made Knight, were revised and edited for publication in The Once and Future King (1958) along with White’s final Arthurian work, “The Candle in the Wind” (which never received separate publication). A fifth Arthurian work, The Book of Merlyn was discovered among White’s papers and published posthumously in 1977. Schlobin 1114; (Tymn p.174); Waggoner 943.

Blue cloth, gilt. Top edge red. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is rough along the edges and folds else is in very good condition and presents a near fine, bright appearance. Second book in White's Arthurian saga, and its only appearance under this title. .

First UK edition, first impression, of White's second Arthurian book. It was first published in the US the preceding year. The work continues the story of the newly crowned King Arthur, his tutelage by the wise Merlyn, his war against King Lot, and also introduces the Orkney clan, a group of characters who would cause the eventual downfall of the king. White was ultimately dissatisfied with it and heavily revised the text before its inclusion in The Once and Future King, trimming nearly 100 pages and retitling it The Queen of Air and Darkness. Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine on green ground, top edge green, bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Line-drawing chapter head- and tailpieces. Neat ownership inscription of "K. W. Howarth" on front free endpaper, possibly Dean of Salisbury Kenneth William Haworth (1903-1988), who, like White, studied at both Cheltenham and Cambridge. Spine cocked, ends browned, foxing to edges and margins, a very good copy in the like, faintly soiled, jacket, loss to head of rear panel and spine ends, affecting a couple letters of text, creasing and chips to edges, remaining a better than usual example.

First U.S. printing of the second book in White's inimitable Arthurian sequence, in the scarce dust jacket. Resplendent with lyricism and sprinkled with scenes of uncompromising brutality, this second book of White's magisterial Arthurian sequence was substantially revised and retitled (as THE QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS) when published as part of THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING in 1958. Here, in its first form as an independent novel, the element of farce is more pronounced; while the shadow of brutality hanging over the sons of Morgause maintains its power to break through any amount of ironies and fancies. A cruel and bewitching book. 8'' x 5.5''. Original glossy blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine and gilt stamp to front board. Red topstain, fore-edge machine deckle. In original unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket. Illustrated by the author with small line drawings and decorations throughout. vii, 270 pages. Minor scuffing to jacket spine and front panel.

First Edition, Advance Page Proof Review Copy, original oblong single-side printed sheets bound with staples at spine. Scarce format. The story of the newly crowned King Arthur, his tutelage by the wise Merlyn, his war against King Lot, and also introduces the Orkney clan, a group of characters who would cause the eventual downfall of the king. Very Good in 'wrappers'.

281pp. Grey buckram boards with green titles to spine in unclipped dustwrapper. Top edge green. No inscriptions. Covers lightly worn and bumped. Dustwrapper torn and reinforced with sellotape and with two significant portions of the spine missing. Text block clean bright and tight. An excellent candidate for a stunningly creative new binding!

First editions, first impressions, of the author's epic tetralogy, the most significant contribution to Arthurian literature in the 20th century. Based on source material in Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, White's work brought the mythological matter of Britain to new generations of readers. The Once and Future King volume comprises the new tale "The Candle in the Wind", and reworked versions of the previous three books, of which The Witch in the Wood is renamed "The Queen of Air and Darkness". The tetralogy was immediately influential, inspiring works such as Lerner and Loewe's Camelot (1960) and Walt Disney's animated feature The Sword in the Stone (1963) 4 works, octavo. Original cloth, bindings and lettering in various colours, top edge of The Witch in the Wood green. With dust jackets. Witch in the Wood with loosely inserted mailing card from William Heinemann; Once and Future King with ownership inscription on front free endpaper, "Adach Capt. Weeton, April 58", and old ink price on rear free endpaper. Bumps to spine ends, light foxing to edges, Once and Future King front inner hinge partially cracked but firm; jacket edges with a few shallow chips, creases, and short closed tears, first three jackets slightly soiled but bright, Once and Future King somewhat damp-stained, Ill-Made Knight with small tape repairs to verso, the first and third jackets price-clipped: a very good set in like jackets.

8vo. Original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edges stained red, fore-edges untrimmed. Small illustrations in the text by the author, endpapers of the first volume illustrated by Robert Lawson. Near fine copies with only traces of wear and age. None of the dustwrappers are price-clipped. The spines are lightly sunned, much less than usual. The have a little wear along the edges. The "Ill-Made Knight" lacks a small piece at the rear fold and the 'With in the Wood' lacks a small piece at the front fold. Otherwise, they are in near fine condition. The first three parts of "The Once and Future King". Fantasy Literature, p. 174. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-266. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 54. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 20. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1116. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1149-57. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 208. Reginald 15254. This is the only edition of the second title; it was replaced entirely in the reprint.