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George Prior Publishers, 1980. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1980. No Edition Remarks. 306 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth. Mild tanning to pages with slight dog-eared pages throughout and light foxing to text block edges. Boards have minor rubbing and light bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket with mild edge wear and rubbing.
THE STORY OF GRETTIR THE STRONG by Magnusson, Eirikr and Morris, William - 1900
by Magnusson, Eirikr and Morris, William
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THE STORY OF GRETTIR THE STRONG
by Magnusson, Eirikr and Morris, William
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Longmans, Green, and Co, 1900. hard cover. Good/No jacket. London; Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. Hardcover, no dj. xxiv+306pp+2pp adverts. Good condition. Brown cloth boards are shelfworn; fabric worn through at extremities and rear gutter; corners bumped; paper title on spine parially worn away Owner name pencilled on ffep. Otherwise the interior is clean, unmarked, unfoxed, and securely bound. Folklore surrounding Icelandic outlaw Grettir the Strong, a thousand year old tale. (cfm)
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- Keywords ICELAND,GRETTIR THE STRONG,FOLKLORE
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The story of Grettir the Strong
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Very Good. George Prior, London 1980 hardcover. Translated from Icelandic by E. Magnusson and W. Morris. Text, cover, binding and dust jacket very good.
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The Story of Grettir the Strong.
by MORRIS, William & MAGNUSSON, Eirikr (translators)
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London, F.S. Ellis, 1869. . First edition, one of 500 copies, inscribed by William Morris; 8vo; double-page map, gift inscription to front pastedown dated 1886, some spotting and offsetting to prelims and endpapers; publisher's green cloth, printed paper title label to spine (somewhat worn), corners slightly rubbed, light rubbing to boards and extremities, deckled edges, partly unopened, housed in 1920s quarter morocco green cloth slipcase, gilt lettering to spine. Limited to just 500 copies, with the present copy inscribed by William Morris in black ink to the front free endpaper: 'the Reverend Charles Kingsley with W. Morris' compliments. 1869'.William Morris studied Old Norse with Magnússon (1833-1913), an Icelandic scholar at the University of Cambridge. Within a year of Morris starting his studies, teacher and pupil published the present volume, the beginning of a fruitful collaboration. For Morris' biographer Fiona MacCarthy, Old Norse literature and Iceland became so important to Morris…
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