Two hardback books by Talbot Mundy from the Fantasy Classics Library, published in America by the Gnome Press. Both with black linen covers, in VGC, no dust jackets. Talbot Mundy (1879-1940) was an English writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. Purple Pirate is a fantasy novel, first published in 1935 by Appleton-Century. Parts of the story appeared in the magazine Adventure. Tros, first published in 1925, complete in one volume, is Mundy's legendary account of the Druid Warrior Tros and his unwilling service to the Roman Empire. First serialized in Adventure, the book chronicles Tros's attempts to keep Julius Caesar from conquering the Britons, and of the young man's efforts to free his father. Stunning for its time, this work of action that shatters anything R.E. Howard could dream up also makes the case that Celtic peoples were far more sophisticated than the wicker-burning freaks they'd been p