BEOWULF. A New Translation.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original dark blue paper-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight with a tiny bump to the bottom corner of the upper board, the boards and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, lightly toned to the paperstock, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps.. Complete with the lightly rubbed, creased and spine-faded dustwrapper that remains without loss or tears. Price-clipped.

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).