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Primary sources

Nigel Bryant, comp. 
The Legend of the Grail. (hb) £9.50

Chrétien de Troyes

Gottfried von Strassburg

R. C. Johnston & D. D. R. Owen, eds.
Two Old French Gauvain Romances: Part I, Le Chevalier à l'épée and La mule sans frein; Part II, Parallel Readings with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
. (hb)
£20.00

Lancelot of the Lake [Lancelot du Lac], trans. Corin Corley; intro. Elspeth Kennedy. (pb) £4.50

Mabinogion

Malory

Eugene Mason, trans.; Gwyn Jones, intro.
Wace and Layamon: Arthurian Chronicles
. (pb)
£3.50

Caitlin and John Matthews
The Arthurian Book of Days: The Greatest Legend in the World Retold throughout the Year. (hb) £7.00

John Matthews
The Unknown Arthur: Forgotten Tales of the Round Table. (pb) £4.50

Morte Arthure

R. I.; ed. Richard S. M. Hirsch. 
The Most Pleasant History of Tom a Lincolne. (hb) £15.00

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Thomas; Dorothy Leigh Sayers, trans. 
Tristan in Brittany: Being the fragments of The Romance of Tristan, written in the XIIth century, by Thomas the Anglo-Norman. (hb) £14.00

Tristan et Iseult, renouvelé en français moderne d'après les textes des XIIe et XIIIe siècles par René Louis. (pb) £2.00

James J. Willehalm and Laila Zamuelis Gross, eds. 
The Romance of Arthur. (hb) £12.50 

Wirnt von Grafenberg

Wigalois: The Knight of Fortune's Wheel; trans. J. W. Thomas. (hb) £8.00



Reference

Geoffrey Ashe
A Guidebook to Arthurian Britain. (hb) £8.50 

Elaine Barber
The Arthurian Bibliography: IV. 1993-1998, author listing and subject index. (hb) £40.00

Derek Brewer & Ernest Frankl
Arthur's Britain: The Land and the Legend. (hb) £8.00

Neil Fairbairn; photographs by Michael Cyprien
A Traveller's Guide to the Kingdoms of Arthur. (hb) £7.00

Ruth Minary and Charles Moorman
An Arthurian Dictionary. (pb) £5.00

Harvey L. Sharrer
A Critical Bibliography of Hispanic Arthurian Material, I - Texts: The Prose Romance Cycles. (pb) £8.50 


Journals

Arthurian Literature


 Secondary sources

Arthurian Studies series (Boydell & Brewer)

Leslie Alcock
Arthur's Britain AD 367-634. (pb) £3.50
Arthur's Britain: History and Archaeology, AD 367-634. (hb) £4.50
'By South Cadbury that is Camelot...': Excavations at Cadbury Castle 1966-70. (hb) £6.50

Mary Andere
Arthurian Links with Herefordshire. (pb) £5.00 

Geoffrey Ashe
Camelot and the Vision of Albion, illustrated edn. (hb) £3.00
King Arthur's Avalon: The Story of Glastonbury. (hb) £3.50
(ed.): The Quest for Arthur's Britain. (hb, large format) £6.00
(ed.):  The Quest for Arthur's Britain. (hb, reader's edn.) £3.00
(ed.):
The Quest for Arthur's Britain. (pb) £1.50 

Graham Ashton
The Realm of King Arthur. (pb) £2.50 

Richard Barber
The Holy Grail: The History of a Legend. (pb) £4.50

Martin Biddle, ed.
King Arthur's Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation.
(hb) £18.50 
King Arthur's Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation. (pb) £12.50

E. Jane Burns
Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle. (hb) £25.00  

J. Neale Carman
A Study of the Pseudo-Map Cycle of Arthurian Romance. (hb) £8.00

Rodney Castleden
King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend. (hb) £15.00

C. V. Catalini
Gawain Narrative: Plot Components in Five Medieval Romances, in English, French and German. (pb) £14.50

Richard Cavendish
King Arthur and the Grail: The Arthurian Legends and their Meaning. (pb) £2.00 

W. A. Cummins
King Arthur's Place in Prehistory: The Great Age of Stonehenge. (hb) £4.50 

Renée L. Curtis
Tristan Studies. (pb) £6.50 

Michael Dames
Merlin and Wales: A Magician's Landscape. (hb) £10.00 

Catherine M. Darrall
'A Comparison of Two Episodes in the Prose Lancelot'.
(pb) £6.50

Fran And Geoff Doel, Terry Lloyd
Worlds of Arthur: King Arthur in History, Legend and Culture. (pb) £5.00 

Carol Dover, ed. 
A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle. (hb) £30.00

R. W. Dunning
Arthur: The King in the West. (pb) £4.00  

Brenda Duxbury, Michael Williams, Colin Wilson
King Arthur Country in Cornwall: The Search for the Real Arthur. (pb) £2.50 

Graeme Fife
Arthur the King: The Themes Behind the Legends. (pb) £3.50 

Arthur Groos and Norris J. Lacy, eds. 
Perceval/Parzival: A Casebook. (hb) £35.00  

Michael Holmes
King Arthur: A Military History. (pb) £5.00 

R. J. Hutchings
The King Arthur Illustrated Guide. (pb) £4.00

W. H. Jackson and S. A. Ranawake, eds.
The Arthur of the Germans: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval German and Dutch Literature. (hb) £32.00 

Elizabeth Jenkins
The Mystery of King Arthur. (hb) £2.50 

Edward Donald Kennedy, ed. 
King Arthur: A Casebook. (pb) £11.50

William W. Kibler, ed.
The Lancelot-Grail Cycle: Text and Transformations. (hb) £10.00 

Roger Sherman Loomis
Celtic Myth and Arthurian Romance. (hb) £10.00
The Grail: From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol. (pb) £6.50

Laurence Main
King Arthur's Camlan: A Quest for the Truth. (pb) £2.50

John Morris
The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650. (hb) £4.50 

David Nicolle 
Arthur and the Anglo-Saxon Wars. (pb) £5.00 

Leonardo Olschki 
The Grail Castle and its Mysteries. (hb) £12.00 

Graham Phillips and Martin Keatman
King Arthur: The True Story. (pb) £4.50 

Howard Reid
Arthur the Dragon King: The Barbaric Roots of Britain's Greatest Legend. (hb) £14.50

James A. Rushing, Jr.
Images of Adventure: Ywain in the Visual Arts. (hb) £8.50 

W. F. Skene
Arthur and the Britons in Wales and Scotland; ed. Derek Bryce. (pb) £7.00

Jonathan Smalley
From Ancient Celts to Camelot, the third book of a trilogy: Moving on from Malory. (pb) £5.00 

Ernst Soudek
Studies in the Lancelot Legend. (pb) £9.50  

Robert B. Stoker
The Legacy of Arthur's Chester. (hb) £10.00 

Neil Thomas 
The Defence of Camelot: Ideology and Intertextuality in the 'Post-Classical' German Romances of the Matter of Britain Cycle. (pb) £16.00
Diu Crône and the Medieval Arthurian Cycle. (hb) £14.50
Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois: Intertextuality and Interpretation. (hb) £25.00

R. F. Treharne
The Glastonbury Legends: Joseph of Arimathea, The Holy Grail and King Arthur. (hb) £8.50 

Lori J. Walters, ed.
Lancelot and Guinevere: A Casebook. (pb) £9.00 


 Books and journals containing related material

Studies in Medievalism, Vol. VIII (1996):  
Medievalism in Europe II, eds. Leslie J. Workman and Kathleen Verduin. (hb) £12.50

Barbara K. Altmann and Carleton W. Carroll, eds. 
The Court Reconvenes: Courtly Literature across the Disciplines. (hb) £8.50

Keith Busby and Norris J. Lacy, eds.
Conjunctures: Medieval Studies in Honor of Douglas Kelly. (hb) £70.00 

Howard B. Clarke and J. R. S. Phillips, eds. 
Ireland, England and the Continent in the Middle Ages and Beyond. (hb) £25.00

L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine C. de Camp
Citadels of Mystery. (pb) £1.50 

H. S. Gill, ed.
Structures of Signification, Vol. 1. (hb) £4.50 

William Morris
Selected Poems; ed. Peter Faulkner. (pb) £4.50 

Francis Pryor
Britain AD: A Quest for Arthur, England and the Anglo-Saxons. (pb) £4.50

George Rosie
Curious Scotland: Tales from a Hidden History. (hb) £7.50

Sir A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller, eds.
The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 1: From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. (hb) £4.50

Jessie L. Weston
From Ritual to Romance. (pb) £5.00

Michael Wood 
In Search of England: Journeys into the English Past. (hb) £9.50




 Modern plays and films

Alan Jay Lerner
Camelot: Libretto. (pb) £4.50 197g.

David Stevens and Peter Barnes; story by Edward Khmara
Merlin: The Complete Script. (pb) £3.00  


Arcana/New age

The Golden Blade no. 47 (1995): The Quest for the Grail, eds. William Forward & Andrew Wolpert. (pb) £5.00

Steve Blake and Scott Lloyd, with John Baldock
The Keys to Avalon: The True Location of Arthur's Kingdom Revealed. (hb) £7.00

John Matthews, ed.
At the Table of the Grail: Magic and the Use of Imagination. (pb) £8.00 


Fiction

Marion Zimmer Bradley
Lady of Avalon. (pb) £4.00
The Mists of Avalon. (pb) £3.00

N. M. Browne
Warriors of Camlann. (pb) £2.50  

Robert Carter
The Language of Stones. (pb) £2.50 

Ann Chamberlin
The Merlin of St. Gilles' Well: Book One of the Joan of Arc Tapestries. (hb) £4.50 

Bernard Cornwell
Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur (The Warlord Chronicles III). (hb) £6.50
Vagabond (The Grail Quest series).
(hb) £5.00  Roger Lancelyn Green
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, retold out of the old romances. (illustrated by Lotte Reiniger) £2.50

Anne Eliot Crompton
Gawain and Lady Green. (hb) £5.00

Kevin Crossley-Holland
Arthur: The Seeing Stone. (pb) £1.50 

Andrew M. Greeley
The Magic Cup: An Irish Legend. (pb) £2.00 

Selina Hastings
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. (illustrated by Juan Wijngaard) (hb) £8.50

Helen Hollick
Pendragon's Banner, being the second part of a trilogy. (hb) £20.00 

Arthur H. Landis
A World Called Camelot. (pb) £2.00

Stephen Lawhead
Taliesin: Book 1 of the Pendragon Cycle. (pb) £2.00 

Sophie Masson, ed.
The Road to Camelot: Moments of Destiny for Arthur and his Friends. £4.50 

John Matthews, illustrated by Stuart Littlejohn
The Song of Taliesin: Stories and Poems from the Books of Broceliande. (pb) £7.00

Rosalind Miles
Guenevere: The Knight of the Sacred Lake, the second novel in the Guenevere series. (hb) £4.50 

Fay Sampson
Wise Woman's Telling: Book One in the sequence Daughter of Tintagel. (hb) £15.00

John Steinbeck
The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights, from the Winchester Manuscripts of Thomas Malory and other sources. (hb) £3.50  

Mary Stewart
The Last Enchantment. (hb) £2.50
The Wicked Day. (pb) £1.00 

Anna Taylor
Drustan the Wanderer: A Historical Novel based on the Legend of Tristan and Yseult. (hb) £10.00

Nikolai Tolstoy
The Coming of the King, being the first part of The Book of Merlin, or Myrddin, from The Yellow Book of Meifod. (hb) £3.50
The Coming of the King: The First Book of Merlin. (pb) £2.00

Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. (pb) £1.00

T. H. White
The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King. (hb) £8.00
The Once and Future King.
(hb) £4.00 
The Once and Future King. (pb) £2.00  
The Sword in the Stone.
(hb) £4.50

 


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