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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
by Tolkien, J. R. R. & ( edited by) Christopher Tolkien
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0547273428
- ISBN 13
- 9780547273426
- Seller
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Carmarthen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Boston - New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2009. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0547273428 . In FINE crisp black boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. Lower corners VERY slightly bumped - negligible, NO damage. Remaining corners sharp. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket. Not clipped - intact. Appears unread. The d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover - As NEW. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing with the Correct Printers Key - 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Internally NO Inscriptions or marks. (8) + 377 pp. Colour frontispiece plate (3 pps before the title) reproducing a page of Tolkien's manuscript. Small black & white vignettes in the text. 'The New Lay of the Volsungs' and 'The New Lay of Gudrun'. With Commentary and Appendices. A FINE copy in a FINE dust jacket. The first publication, published simultaneously with the UK version, of a previously unknown work by J. R. R. Tolkien, his own version, in verse form, of the great legend of Northern antiquity which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrun, and the Fall of the Nibelungs. See Images; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ‘30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the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
- Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 120118
- Title
- The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
- Author
- Tolkien, J. R. R. & ( edited by) Christopher Tolkien
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First US Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0547273428
- ISBN 13
- 9780547273426
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston - New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- 0547273428, The Legend Of Sigurd And Gudrun., By Tolkien, J. R. R. & Christopher Tolkien
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry/War Poetry; Eng Lit, Lit Crit & Shakespeare;
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Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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About the Seller
Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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Carmarthen
About Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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