NOTE that the version included in the 1958 The Once and Future King contains revisions to the original story, with both additions and subtractions. Eventually she offered to show it to Sir Ector, who was Kays father, had hysterics and. Wart, an orphan child, in is the care of Sir Ector and is being brought up with Ectors son Kay. THE SWORD IN THE STONE a broken bottle at a picnic by mistake. The novel received the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1939 (the British edition having come out in 1938). The Sword in the Stone tells the story of Wart (make sure you rhyme it with art please) as hes known, from the time the magician Merlyn becomes his tutor until the day he pulls the sword from its stone.
The author provides the childhood of Arthur that is missing from Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, taking it up to the point where he miraculously pulls the sword from the stone and is recognized as king. A fantasy novel dealing with the Arthurian legends, this novel was the first of the four part series that became The Once and Future King. The Binding is full blue cloth with gilt design of sword in stone on the front board, somewhat dulled gilt title, etc., to spine, all corners square, and a slight curve to the rear board. The Text Block is clean, mildly tanned, straight and slightly canted, with red topstain, deckled fore-edges, and no marks or markings of any kind. With its slapstick humour and wizardry - forget Harry Potter, Merlin is the one - its probably the most. First (1st) Printing of First American Edition (title page and copyright page with same date and no further printings listed on copyright page, per 1928 statement of publisher - see Zempel and Verkler, First Editions: A Guide to Identification, 2nd Ed., p. Book one of TH Whites junior classic The Once and Future King was published in 1939. Putnam's Sons, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1939.
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