Buy this book on-line TOLKIEN**, J. R. R and GORDON, E. V - Edited by: : SIR GAWAIN & The Green KnightUK.OXFORD.CLARENDON PRESS,1925. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.[A further 2nd imp edn (same publisher,1930) bore corrected text.] VG+.Two separate inked owners' names,one to front pastedown,
another with date (1926) to top corner's top edge of ffe (front free endpaper).To rear free endpaper,a small tipped-in newspaper cutting from TLS (Times Literary
Supplement) about a (then) new 1970 edition of same book,by R. A. Waldron.Bright and generally clean,publisher's original,olive green,gilt decorated cloth boards.A bright, crisp,blocked single line gilt border edge to upper board,with bright,crisp,blocked gilt axe with a tasselled entwined rope to it's haft,towards centre of same board; bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters and publisher's colophon to spine/backstrip which is also slightly darkened.Tiny,tiny splits to spine/backstrip's top+bottom of front and rear gutters' edges with some miniscule fraying.Top two corners are minisculely bumped,bottom two corners with inevitable but miniscule rubbing.Top+fore-edges deckled (untrimmed) and with slight ageing/toning commensurate with book's age; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound,with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Desscribed hard but fairly and honestly - nowhere as detracting as it reads or sounds.UK,8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn,vi-xxviipp+2-211pp [paginated] includes editors' preface, errata slip tipped in to page vii - the first page of introduction,3 diagrams in text,tissue-guarded b/w plate - facsimile reproduction of beginning of the medieval text,a select bibliography,the story of the Green Knight between pp2-78,notes (pp79-117),metre - composed in stanzas of unrhymed alliterative lines followed by 5 short rhymed lines (pp118-121),language (pp122-32),a glossary (pp133-210,and an index of names.Plus [unpaginated] 2pp blanks,and a tissue-guarded b/w frntis (The Lady of the Castle visits Sir Gawain),and the title page.
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Tolkien translated the text and compiled the extensive glossary.An early,academic work by the author of 'The Hobbit' and the trilogy of 'Lord of the Rings' - see my book ID rja360510.
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