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Hardcover, blue cloth in original non price clipped dust-jacket. 224pp., lierary references, bibliography of other sourdes used, index. 16 full color plates and 80 black and white illustrations. Reprint edition of 1975 Coward ,McCann & Geoghegan edition; first printing thus. No previous ownership marks. An exploration of the King Arthur myth dealing with all the familiar concepts of the Round Table, the High History of the Holy Grail, the Star Temple of Glastonbury, the tragedy of Lancelot and Guinevere, and beginning with Arthur’s mystical accociation with water. From Thomas Malory’s prose work to Tennyson’s verse the author examines the histoprical and literary development of question, who was King Arthur. A very clean, square, copy in a glossy pictorial dust-jacket. No faults, no tears, no marks. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket.