BEOWULF. A New Verse Translation.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A lovely fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents, clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£14.99 to the front flap).

Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. 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).