Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Foreword by author, introduction: the 'Elder Edda' by J. R. R. Tolkien, introductory notes and three appendices. Pale gold coloured end pages. Colour frontispiece showing a page from the manuscript of the New Lay of Gudrun. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper (wraparound, with white and gilt coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Edited by Christopher Tolkien, are presented two epic poems, Inspired by the legend of Sigurd and the fall of the Niflungs in Norse mythology, with background information. Rubbing of the book edges little softening of the back strip edges. Browning of the text block edges and age toning of the pages. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels and there is a little fading to the front panel and back strip. There is a horizontal crease to the front panel measuring 3 inches, 3 inches from the lower edge Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. 377 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Myths, Legends & Folklore; Science Fiction & Fantasy. ISBN: 0007317239. ISBN/EAN: 9780007317233. Inventory No: 0289353. . 9780007317233

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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ‘30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the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: Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0289353
Title: The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
Author: Tolkien J. R. R
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good Condition
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0007317239
ISBN 13: 9780007317233
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 2009
Keywords: BZDB2 poetry Tolkien Myths, Legends & Folklore; Science Fiction & Fantasy. Unbranded ISBN: 0007317239 EAN: 9780007317233 Tolkien J. R. R. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun

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