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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
by Tolkien, J.R.R. (ed by Christopher Tolkien) (jacket art by Bill Sanderson)
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- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0007317239
- ISBN 13
- 9780007317233
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About This Item
London: London: Harper Collins 2009 First Edition, First Impression 8vo vi,377pp ISBN 978-0-00-731723-3, 2009 Very Fine original black cloth, colour frontispiece showing a page from the manuscript of the New Lay of Gudrun, in Very Fine DW, protected in Brodart sleeve. Jacket art by Bill Sanderson. First publication of Tolkien's two closely related poems based on the great legend of Northern antiquity, to which he gave the titles "The New Lay of the Volsungs" and "The New Lay of Gudrun", along with the first publication of Tolkien's related essay on the Elder Edda.
Synopsis
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ‘30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings . It makes available for the first time Tolkien’s extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Völsung and The Fall of the Niflungs. It includes an introduction by J.R.R. Tolkien, drawn from one of his own lectures on Norse literature, with commentary and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien.
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- Bookseller
- N & A Smiles
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18942
- Title
- The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
- Author
- Tolkien, J.R.R. (ed by Christopher Tolkien) (jacket art by Bill Sanderson)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0007317239
- ISBN 13
- 9780007317233
- Publisher
- London: Harper Collins 2009 First Edition, First Impression 8vo vi,377pp ISBN 978-0-00-731723-3
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2009
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N & A Smiles
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Kellerberrin, Western Australia
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We are located on the Great Eastern Highway in the Central Wheatbelt town of Kellerberrin in Western Australia, 2-1/2 hours drive from Perth. We are directly opposite East Crossing Road, nestled in between the Tyre Service and the TAFE College. Public Transport is available via the Prospector & Avon Link passenger train services, or via the Goldfields Express bus service. We specialise in Collectible Paperbacks with an emphasis on Science Fiction and Crime Novels, but we also carry an extensive range of Mythology, Icelandic Sagas, Middle English Texts, Australian Exploration, Aboriginal Studies, Tolkien, Gor Books, Proto Science Fiction, Early SF Pulp Magazines and much more. Drop in for a browse and cup of coffee.
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