Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Beowulf by Seamus Heaney. First Edition stated, 2000 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First Printing with no subsequent printing.
The book is in Near Fine condition with with clean, bright boards, light foxing on the top page block and a few smudges on the bottom, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, moderate edge wear and strong corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions or signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with no surface wear and only mild edge wear, making it a stunning example of this highly sought-after first edition that looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel’s mother.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
