BEOWULF. A New Translation.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight, the boards bright and the gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with a previous owner's inscription on the front free end paper, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and spine-faded dustwrapper, that remains without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£14.99 to the front flap).

Dedicated to the memory of his friend, Ted Hughes, Heaney's line-by-line translation from the original Anglo-Saxon of this great Northern epic and foundational work of English and European literature was winner of the 1999 Whitbread Poetry Prize. (Brandes & Durkan A72a).