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The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation
by Simon Armitage
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- fine
- hardcover
- First
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393073971
- ISBN 13
- 9780393073973
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California
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About This Item
Collectible Fine Hardcover Fine UnClipped Dust Jacket NOT a library copy First Edition Numbers 1234567890 Pristine 301 pp. Free of signatures or markings "The Alliterative Morte Arthure" Easily among the five greatest Middle English and Tudor Arthurian Texts ever. The Middle English on the left page and the modern poets translation on the right. I love the way Arthur takes apart the Giant cannibal rapist on Saint Michael Mount "As gross as grease fed pig"Arthur dispatches the monstrous rapist as all such deserve. Delicacy demands Arthur's justice in the Middle English "Just to the genitals and he jagged them in sonder..." See our scans for condition and fuller description of Arthur's hard battle."Collectible condition First Editon. Three Geese in Flight Offering Celtic and Arthurian books since 1977 serving you until the King returns.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Three Geese In Flight Celtic Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9000502
- Title
- The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation
- Author
- Simon Armitage
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket condition
- Fine
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393073971
- ISBN 13
- 9780393073973
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011-12
- Keywords
- morte arthure middle english arthur arthurian verse narrative brut arthurian alliterative death of arthur historical arthur cadbury reenactments celtic war celtic dark age warriors vix gaulish goddess statue arthurian history
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arthurian Legend; Medieval and Early Medieval; Fantasy Literature; Norse/Anglo Saxon/ Middle English/ Elizabethan/German;
- Size
- 8vo
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