JAUFRY THE KNIGHT AND THE FAIR BRUNISSENDE:
An Original Twelfth-Century Tale Of King Arthur's Day

Newly revised from the original Provencal, with a preface by Vernon Ives.

(New York): Holiday House, 1935.

First edition thus.

Dragon and knight drawings throughout by John Atherton.

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.


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.

Octavo; 124 pages; plus foreword and contents pages.

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