Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1930).
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Hardcover. Second edition, revised and corrected. Early ownership signature, very near fine in very good plus, price-clipped dustwrapper with very small nicks, mostly at the top of the front panel. A beautiful copy of this translation of the medieval poem. Scarce in dustwrapper, and in this condition.
Item #82997
J.R.R. Tolkien
birth name: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
born: 1/3/1892
died: 9/2/1973
Biography
English novelist and scholar who achieved fame with his richly inventive epic trilogy The Lord of the Rings (1954-56). By the mid-1960s this remarkable work had become a sociocultural phenomenon, especially in its appeal to young people. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore