BEOWULF and the Finnesburg Fragment
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1950. New edition. Cloth. New edition, 1950. A Very Good copy in Good dust jacket. 12 mo., xliii, 194 pp. Bound in brown cloth in grey-green dust jacket. The dust jacket has edge wear, a few small closed tears, especially at the spine's crown, and has been tape repaired on the reverse. The price-clipped dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. Very Good / Good. Item #38246
New Edition completely revised with Notes and an introduction by C. L. Wrenn, with prefatory remarks by J.R.R. Tolkien. "Professor Tolkien's Prefatory Remarks, which have enabled matters of metre and diction to be omitted from the introduction, are here reproduced unchanged save for correction of an occasional misprint: for they must remain as the most permanently valuable part of the book" - from Wrenn's introduction.
Price: $150.00