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Collection Summary | |
Creator: | Walton, Evangeline |
Collection Name: | Evangeline Ensley Walton papers, |
Inclusive Dates: | 1839-2012 |
Physical Description: | 16.5 Linear Feet |
Abstract: | This collection contains biographical clippings, family documents, correspondence, manuscripts, publicity materials, some published materials, and her personal copies of books she considered to be influential. Correspondence includes many letters with John C. Powys, the Welsh novelist, essayist, and poet, as well as correspondence from Ursula K. Le Guin, Ben Abramson, Poul Anderson, Jürgen Schweier, and Kenneth Zahorski. While the collection spans 1839 to 2012, the bulk of the materials range from 1929-1994. |
Collection Number: | MS 384 |
Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu |
Evangeline Wilna Ensley, better known by her penname Evangeline Walton, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on November 24, 1907. Based on the Welsh book of legends, the first volume of her Mabinogion tetralogy, The Virgin and the Swine, was published in 1936. . It was re-published in 1970 as The Island of the Mighty, followed by The Children of Llyr in 1971, The Song of Rhiannon in 1972, and The Prince of Annwn in 1974. Other novels include 1945's Witch House, 1956's The Cross and the Sword, 1983's The Sword is Forged, and the posthumously published She Walks in Darkness.
Suffering from ill health as a child, Evangeline was treated with silver nitrate tincture which gave her skin a blue-gray tint which darkened as she aged. Raised by her mother and maternal grandmother after her parents divorced in 1924, she often mentioned her family's Quaker faith as an important inspiration for the distinctly feminist angle of many of her stories. Evangeline moved to Tucson in 1946 after her grandmother passed away, where she lived until her death in 1996.
The Evangeline Ensley Walton papers consist of biographical clippings, family documents, correspondence, manuscripts, publicity materials, some published materials, and Evangeline's personal copies of books she considered to be influential. The family documents include materials from the Coyner, Furnas, and Ensley families. The correspondence contains personal and professional correspondence. Evangeline kept many letters that were sent to her, including a letter from fellow author Ursula K. Le Guin, which is located in Box 15 Folder 42.
Evangeline typed her manuscripts on onionskin paper as well as whatever scraps of paper she could find. Because she constantly rewrote pages, there are often multiple copies of similar pages. Debra Hammond, Evangeline's literary heir, was able to get some of Evangeline's manuscripts published posthumously. Some works that Evangeline considered to be influential are included in this collection, several of which carry inscriptions to and from her family members. Also included in this collection are foreign copies of some of her works. Other assorted books by Evangeline Walton have been cataloged as part of Special Collection's general book collection.
There are no restrictions on this collection.
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Evangeline Ensley Walton papers (MS 384). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
Processed by Cody Aune in 2006, addition by Emma Luthi in 2021.
Series I: Biographical Materials, 1836-1996 | |||||||||||
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1 | 1 | Biographical Clippings, 1936-1996 | |||||||||
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16 | 19 | Ensley family legal documents, 1839, 1871-1875, 1906-1931 | |||||||||
16 | 20 | Ensley family legal documents, 1878, 1915, 1931-1932 | |||||||||
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15 | 29 | Newspaper clippings, 1929, 1954-1980, undated | |||||||||
15 | 32 | Awards, 1963-1985 | |||||||||
15 | 35 | Obituary for Clifton, 1946 | |||||||||
15 | 36 | Biographical information, 1948, 1985, 1996 | |||||||||
15 | 38 | Photographs, undated | |||||||||
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17 | World Fantasy Convention photo album, 1981 |
Series II: Correspondence, 1929-1994 | |||||||||||
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1 | 2 | August Derleth, director of Arkham House, July 17, 1946 | |||||||||
1 | 2 | (continued) Publishers, to Evangeline Walton Ensley. Concerning the rights to The Virgin and the Swine. , undated | |||||||||
1 | 2 | Incomplete list of "inspirational" advice, undated | |||||||||
1 | 2 | John Milton Phillips, Minister of The First Church of Christ in Hartford, Connecticut to Ben (?) complimenting The Virgin and the Swine. , April 12, 1937 | |||||||||
1 | 2 | Ben Abramson of the Argus Bookshop Inc. in Chicago to Evangeline Walton Ensley, August 8, 1937 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | Photograph (John C. Powys ?), April 14, 1938 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, undated | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, December 14, 1936 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton complimenting The Virgin and the Swine , February 23, 1937 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton. Incomplete letter with no date, February 27, 1937(?) | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, March 6,1937 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, April 20, 1937 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, June 19, 1937 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, August 4, 1937 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, October 23, 1937 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, December 31, 1937 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, April 20, 1938 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, July 31,1938 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, December 9, 1938 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, December 9 or 10, 1938 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, April 22,1939 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, August 19, 1939 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, January 22, 1940 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, January 19, 1957 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, February 13,1957 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, September 15, 1957 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, January 5, 1958 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton, December 10, 1958 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | John C. Powys to Evangeline Walton , 1959 | |||||||||
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16 | 5 | John Cowper Powys, 1940-1957 | |||||||||
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15 | 39 | Publishers/Agents, 1929-1959, 1975-1981 | |||||||||
15 | 40 | Miscellaneous, 1945-1985, undated | |||||||||
15 | 41 | A-G, 1973-1985 | |||||||||
15 | 42 | H-P, 1937-1974, 1994 | |||||||||
15 | 43 | Q-Z, 1971-1989 | |||||||||
15 | 44 | Ben Abramson, 1939-1949 | |||||||||
15 | 45 | Jürgen Schweier, 1978-1980 | |||||||||
15 | 46 | Poul Anderson, 1975 | |||||||||
15 | 47 | Ballantine, 1972-1974, 1991 | |||||||||
15 | 48 | Bouregy, 1957-1959, 1975 | |||||||||
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16 | 1 | Otis Kline Associates, 1946-1958 | |||||||||
16 | 2 | Harold Ober Associates, 1975-1980 | |||||||||
16 | 3 | Packet Books, 1981, undated | |||||||||
16 | 4 | Pearn, Pollinger & Higham, 1940, undated | |||||||||
16 | 6 | Skeffington & Sons, Ltd., 1947 | |||||||||
16 | 7 | Paul Spencer, 1972, undated | |||||||||
16 | 8 | Willett Clark & Co., 1935-1939 | |||||||||
16 | 9 | Kenneth Zahorski, 1977-1980, undated | |||||||||
16 | 10 | Miscellaneous, 1974-1985 | |||||||||
16 | 13 | Fan mail, 1920-1939 | |||||||||
16 | 14 | Fan mail, 1944-1957 | |||||||||
16 | 15 | Fan mail, 1971-1979 | |||||||||
16 | 16 | Fan mail, 1983-1994 | |||||||||
16 | 17-18 | Fan mail, undated | |||||||||
16 | 21 | Family Correspondence, 1864-1896 | |||||||||
16 | 22 | Family Correspondence, 1904-1916 | |||||||||
16 | 23 | Family Correspondence, 1920-1929 | |||||||||
16 | 24 | Family Correspondence, 1931-1939 | |||||||||
16 | 25 | Family Correspondence, 1940-1949 | |||||||||
16 | 26 | Family Correspondence, 1950-1958, undated | |||||||||
16 | 27 | Correspondence with Vincent Furnas, 1900-1911, 1924-1929 | |||||||||
16 | 28 | Correspondence with Vincent Furnas, 1936, 1941-1949 | |||||||||
16 | 29 | Correspondence with Vincent Furnas, 1951-1957 | |||||||||
16 | 30 | Correspondence with Vincent Furnas, undated |
Series III: Manuscripts, 1938-1990 | |||||||||||
Books, | |||||||||||
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1 | 4 | Manuscript: Children of Llyr , undated | |||||||||
1 | 5 | Manuscript: Children of Llyr , undated | |||||||||
1 | 6 | Manuscript: Children of Llyr , undated | |||||||||
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14 | 30-31 | Mabinogion – The Children of Llyr , undated | |||||||||
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1 | 9 | Manuscript: Prince of Annwn , undated | |||||||||
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11 | 15-16 | Prince of Annwn, unordered pages, undated | |||||||||
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2 | 1 | Manuscript: Song of Rhiannon , undated | |||||||||
2 | 2 | Manuscript: Song of Rhiannon , undated | |||||||||
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11 | 17-19 | Song of Rhiannon, "The Land of Illusion," unordered pages, undated | |||||||||
11 | 12-14 | Mabinogion manuscript, unordered pages, undated | |||||||||
11 | 11 | Mabinogion – notes, undated | |||||||||
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1 | 7 | Manuscript: The Cross and the Sword , undated | |||||||||
1 | 8 | Manuscript: The Cross and the Sword , undated | |||||||||
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2 | 3 | Manuscript: The Sword is Forged , undated | |||||||||
2 | 4 | Manuscript: The Sword is Forged , undated | |||||||||
2 | 5 | Manuscript: The Sword is Forged , undated | |||||||||
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3 | 20-22 | Theseus manuscript – "The Sword is Forged", November 1982 | |||||||||
3 | 23 | Theseus manuscript – "The Sword is Forged" final chapter, November 1982 | |||||||||
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2 | 6 | Manuscript: Witch House , undated | |||||||||
2 | 7 | Manuscript: Witch House , undated | |||||||||
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13 | 1 | Witch House - page proofs, undated | |||||||||
13 | 2-3 | Witch House - page proofs, 1945 | |||||||||
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3 | 1 | Theseus – "Sword and Ring Chapter 1", 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
3 | 2 | Theseus – "Sword and Ring Chapter 2", 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
3 | 3 | Theseus – "Sword and Ring Chapter 3", 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
3 | 4 | Theseus – "Sword and Ring Chapter 4", 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
3 | 5 | Theseus – "Sword and Ring Chapter 5", 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
3 | 6 | Theseus – "Sword and Ring Chapter 6", 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
3 | 7 | Theseus – "Sword and Ring Chapter 7", 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
3 | 8 | Theseus – "Sword and Ring Chapter 8", 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
3 | 9 | Theseus – "Misc", 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
3 | 10 | Theseus – "Notes", 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
3 | 11-13 | Theseus – "No Lady" , 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
3 | 14-16 | Theseus – "The Amazon", 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
3 | 17, 19 | Theseus manuscript – "Antiope", 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
3 | 18 | Theseus manuscript – "Antiope", 1978 | |||||||||
3 | 24 | Theseus – Author's notes, July 1983, undated | |||||||||
3 | 25-27 | "Euripideia Greek Notes", undated | |||||||||
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4 | 1-4 | "Research materials", undated | |||||||||
4 | 5-20 | Theseus manuscript, unordered pages, 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
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5 | 1-17 | Theseus manuscript, unordered pages, 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
box | folder | ||||||||||
6 | 1-17 | Theseus manuscript, unordered pages, 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
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7 | 1-17 | Theseus manuscript, unordered pages, 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
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8 | 1-19 | Theseus manuscript, unordered pages, 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
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9 | 1-17 | Theseus manuscript, unordered pages, 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
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10 | 1-18 | Theseus manuscript, unordered pages, 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
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11 | 1-10 | Theseus manuscript, unordered pages, 1940s-1980s | |||||||||
11 | 20 | She Walks in Darkness – notes, undated | |||||||||
11 | 21 | She Walks in Darkness – "Etruscan Thriller", undated | |||||||||
box | folder | ||||||||||
12 | 1 | She Walks in Darkness – "Etruscan Thriller", undated | |||||||||
12 | 2-6 | She Walks in Darkness – "She Who Goes Winged", undated | |||||||||
12 | 7-19 | She Walks in Darkness , undated | |||||||||
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13 | 7 | Prince of the Air - notes, undated | |||||||||
13 | 8 | Prince of the Air, Chapters 1-4, undated | |||||||||
13 | 9 | Prince of the Air, Chapters 5-9, undated | |||||||||
13 | 10 | Prince of the Air, Chapters 10-13, undated | |||||||||
13 | 11 | Prince of the Air, Chapters 14-17, undated | |||||||||
13 | 12 | Prince of the Air, Chapters 18-21, undated | |||||||||
13 | 13 | Prince of the Air, Chapters 22-25, undated | |||||||||
13 | 14 | Prince of the Air, Chapters 26-30, undated | |||||||||
13 | 15 | Prince of the Air, Chapters 31-34, undated | |||||||||
13 | 16 | Prince of the Air, Chapters 35-38, undated | |||||||||
13 | 17 | Prince of the Air, miscellaneous pages, undated | |||||||||
box | folder | ||||||||||
14 | 33 | When the Lights Went Out – Characters, undated | |||||||||
14 | 34 | When the Lights Went Out – "Reconstructed", undated | |||||||||
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15 | 1 | When the Lights Went Out – Chapter 1-3, undated | |||||||||
15 | 2 | When the Lights Went Out – Chapter 4, undated | |||||||||
15 | 3 | When the Lights Went Out – Chapters 5-6, undated | |||||||||
15 | 4 | When the Lights Went Out – Chapters 7-8, undated | |||||||||
15 | 5 | When the Lights Went Out – Chapters 9-10, undated | |||||||||
15 | 6 | When the Lights Went Out – Chapters 11-12, undated | |||||||||
15 | 7 | When the Lights Went Out – Chapters 13-15, undated | |||||||||
15 | 8 | When the Lights Went Out – Chapters 16-17, undated | |||||||||
15 | 9 | When the Lights Went Out – Chapters 18-20, undated | |||||||||
15 | 10 | When the Lights Went Out – Chapters 21-23, undated | |||||||||
15 | 11 | When the Lights Went Out – Chapter 24, undated | |||||||||
15 | 12 | When the Lights Went Out – Chapters 25-27, undated | |||||||||
15 | 13 | When the Lights Went Out – Chapters 28-30, undated | |||||||||
15 | 14 | When the Lights Went Out – Chapters 31-33, undated | |||||||||
15 | 15 | When the Lights Went Out – Chapters 34-36, undated | |||||||||
15 | 16 | When the Lights Went Out – Chapters 37, undated | |||||||||
15 | 17 | When the Lights Went Out - miscellaneous pages, undated | |||||||||
Short Stories, | |||||||||||
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13 | 4-6 | Death and the Tree, undated | |||||||||
13 | 18 | "The Swan Wife," screenplay, undated | |||||||||
13 | 19 | Above Ker-Is, undated | |||||||||
13 | 20 | Ariane 1 – Fairy Godmother 1938, A Worldly Young Lady, undated | |||||||||
13 | 21 | Ariane 2 – King Midas' Daughter, undated | |||||||||
13 | 22 | Ariane 3 – The Rev. John Blaker, undated | |||||||||
13 | 23 | At the End of the Corridor, undated | |||||||||
13 | 24 | Captain Pegleg's Woman, undated | |||||||||
13 | 25 | Cuan Mac Rinn, undated | |||||||||
13 | 26 | Deb Morgan's Tale, undated | |||||||||
13 | 27 | Homecoming, One June, 1943, undated | |||||||||
13 | 28 | Homecoming, One June, undated | |||||||||
13 | 29 | The Judgement of St. Yves, undated | |||||||||
13 | 30 | Lus-Mor, undated | |||||||||
13 | 31 | The Mistress of Kaer-Mor, undated | |||||||||
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14 | 1 | On the Road to Quantrell, undated | |||||||||
14 | 2 | The Other One, 1950 | |||||||||
14 | 3 | The Returned, undated | |||||||||
14 | 4 | Scarecrow's House, undated | |||||||||
14 | 5 | The Ship from Away, undated | |||||||||
14 | 6 | Untitled story – "Elizabeth Maplethorpe", undated | |||||||||
14 | 7 | Untitled story – "Eric", undated | |||||||||
14 | 8 | Untitled story – "I was sipping an aperitif", undated | |||||||||
14 | 9 | Untitled story – Nurse post-war story, undated | |||||||||
14 | 10 | Untitled story – Roman story, undated | |||||||||
14 | 11 | Untitled story – "Science (blah!) thing", undated | |||||||||
14 | 12 | Untitled story – Tristan Var, undated | |||||||||
14 | 13 | Untitled story – Unnamed historical novel, undated | |||||||||
14 | 14 | Untitled story – War story, undated | |||||||||
14 | 15 | Untitled story – For Fran Coleman, approximately 1989-1990 | |||||||||
14 | 16 | Werewolf, undated | |||||||||
14 | 17 | The Wall, undated | |||||||||
14 | 18 | The Wall - drafts, 1977, undated | |||||||||
14 | 19 | They That Have Wings, undated | |||||||||
14 | 20 | The Tree of Perkunas, undated | |||||||||
14 | 21-24 | The Forest That Would Not Be Cut Down/The Determined Forest, undated | |||||||||
14 | 25-29 | The Forest That Would Not Be Cut Down, undated | |||||||||
14 | 32 | Published copies – Judgement of St. Ives, Above Ker-Is, 1981, undated | |||||||||
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15 | 18 | Research notes, undated | |||||||||
15 | 19 | "Sagalands," miscellaneous pages, undated | |||||||||
15 | 20 | Miscellaneous pages, undated | |||||||||
15 | 21 | Poetry, 1959, 1967, undated | |||||||||
15 | 22 | Cover art, undated | |||||||||
15 | 23 | Original cover for "Spanish story", undated |
Series IV: Publicity, 1936-1994 | |||||||||||
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15 | 24 | Lecture for Mythlore 11, proof copy, approximately 1984 | |||||||||
15 | 25 | Interview – Fantasy Review, March 1985 | |||||||||
15 | 26 | Interviews – newspapers, 1956, 1957, undated | |||||||||
15 | 27 | Interviews – newspapers, 1972-1993 | |||||||||
15 | 28 | Interviews, 1936,1958,1986-1993 | |||||||||
15 | 30 | Reviews, 1972-2002, undated | |||||||||
15 | 31 | Review of Reviews, approximately 1936 | |||||||||
15 | 33 | Convention materials, 1984-1985 | |||||||||
15 | 34 | Convention booklets, 1939, 1981-1994 | |||||||||
15 | 37 | Windhaven magazine – Autobiography, 1979 | |||||||||
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16 | 11 | Rimers of Tucson booklets, 1973 | |||||||||
16 | 12 | The Society of Southwestern Authors, 1990, 1993 |
Series V: Influential Works, 1897-1988 | |||||||||||
Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
This series contains Evangeline's personal copies of works she considered to be influential. Some are inscribed to and from various members of her family. | |||||||||||
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17 | Everyman's Library: The Mabinogion, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest, 1932 | ||||||||||
17 | At the Back of the North Wind, by George MacDonald, inscribed "To my Beloved Sister Calista Hannah Furnas Fellows" with a note from Annie Maria Furnas Coyner, 1934 | ||||||||||
17 | The Spartan, by Caroline Dale Snedeker, 1927 | ||||||||||
17 | The Forgotten Daughter, by Caroline Dale Snedeker, 1941 | ||||||||||
17 | The Green Millennium, by Frtiz Leiber, 1953 | ||||||||||
17 | The Princess and Curdie, by George MacDonald, 1930 | ||||||||||
17 | The Princess and the Goblin, by George MacDonald, 1930 | ||||||||||
17 | Civil War Soldiers: Their Expectations and their Experiences, by Reid Mitchell, 1988 | ||||||||||
17 | Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Art & Memorial Edition, inscribed "Miss Wilna Coyner Indianapolis", 1897 | ||||||||||
17 | The History of Civilization: Minoans, Philistines, and Greeks, edited by C. K. Ogden, 1930 | ||||||||||
17 | A Treasury of the Theatre: An Anthology of Great Plays from Aeschylus to Eugene O'Neill, edited by Burns Mantle and John Gassner, 1935 | ||||||||||
17 | The Palace of Minos at Knossos Vol III, by Sir Arthur Evans, 1930 |
Series VI: Published Works, 1974-2012 | |||||||||||
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18 | Die Letzte Amazone , 1985 | ||||||||||
18 | Het Lied Van Rhiannon naar het Mabinogion , 1975 | ||||||||||
18 | Arawn heer van de onderwereld naar het Mabinogion , 1974 | ||||||||||
18 | Het Eiland van de Machtigen naar het Mabinogion , 1976 | ||||||||||
18 | Boxed set, Die Vier Zweige des Mabinogi, two volumes, 1974 | ||||||||||
18 | Arawn Heer van de onderwereld , 2003 | ||||||||||
18 | Japanese copy of Prince of Annwn , 2012 | ||||||||||
18 | Japanese copy of The Song of Rhiannon , 2012 | ||||||||||
18 | Japanese copy of The Children of Llyr , 2012 | ||||||||||
18 | Japanese copy of The Island of the Mighty , 2012 | ||||||||||
18 | Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine , November/December 2011 | ||||||||||
18 | "World Tales - the Souvenir Book of the 1985 World Fantasy Convention" , Novemeber 1985 |