Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún by J. R. R. Tolkien in a new archival wrap. First Edition unstated, 2007 Houghton Mifflin First Printing with complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild 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 other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear. First state jacket with the price on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ‘30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It makes available for the first time Tolkien’s extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Völsung and The Fall of the Niflungs.It includes an introduction by J.R.R. Tolkien, drawn from one of his own lectures on Norse literature, with commentary and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
