Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkeley Medallion Books, New York
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. The book is very solid with lightly browned pages. The cover is aging with moderate shelf & edge wear. The spine is faded with a few creases. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780441627400ISBN:0441627404
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, some shelf wear to cover, light creases on spine, stk #2308r9. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 639 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Putnam
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, some shelf wear & aging to cover, light creases on spine, light water mark on bottom corner, slight slant to book, stk #2291g9. 639 p. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780441627400ISBN:0441627404
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 639 p. Audience: General/trade. Gently, but studiously used. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Medallion, New York
Date Published: 1968
Description: Good. 639 pp; some yellowing, scuffing to cover, light edge wear; T.H. White's masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend is an abiding classic. The Once and Future King, contains all four books about the early life of King Arthur (The Sword in the Stone, The Witch in the Wood, The Ill-Made Knight and The Candle in the Wind). Exquisite comedy offsets the tradegy of Arthur's personal doom as White brings to life the major British epic of all time with brilliance, grandeur, warmth and charm. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ace Books
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780441627400ISBN:0441627404
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minimal corner curling. No creasing at all. Text is clean and bright. Binding is tight. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 639 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Medalion, New York
Date Published: 1969
Description: Good. No Jacket as Issued. Light edgewear and some rubbing and tanning to the covers. Pages toned with age. Otherwise a clean copy with an uncreased spine. Movie tie-in to Camelot cover art. read more
"I could easily make the argument that this is my favorite book. My god, this book slapped me across the face when I was in high school. It's as close to perfect as I think a book can be: mannered, clean, heart-rending, and sophisticated. This book woke me up to the fact that I was going to become an adult soon and gave me the lens to begin to look backward and forward in my life. White gets it, he's one of the few who can get down to the details of how it feels to be a human being with honesty and without much hyperbole. He hasn't forgotten his youth or misinterpreted his age, and all readers of TOAFK can benefit hugely from that. And there's also the matter of the gorgeous modern retelling of the King Arthur fables that have been a big piece of our culture for the last thousand years. The pleasure of the plot alone would be quite substantial without any of the philosophy. I got a bad grade on the presentation I made about this book because I was so blown away I couldn't be objective. All I could do was repeat over and over, "I love this book, I love this book, I love this book...""
"This is my favorite novel of all time. It's a great fantasy and the character development is wonderful. I love how the story starts with a young Arthur and is a more childish fun story, but it ages with Arthur himself and becomes more bittersweet.
Best of all is that I have had this book for ages and it has that wonderful smell of having sat on my own bookshelves for ages. This smell is nostalgic of the way books smelled in our house growing up. My mom has always had loads of books here, there, and everywhere. I don't even know how to describe the smell--old and dusty, but beautiful. Sniffing this book almost brings a tear to my eye. Now I sound like a freak, but it's just such a great feeling--this book has been like a friend to me. I think maybe it's time for a re-read. It smells like some of my other well-loved books--The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Chronicles of Narnia, Edward Rutherford's London novel, The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown, and of course Pride and Prejudice (could go and on but won't)."
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