BEOWULF

Faber and Faber, 1999

1650.00 €

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Details

Year of publication

1999

Place of printing

London

Author

Heaney

Publishers

Faber and Faber

Edition

THE SCARCE LIMITED ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE

First edition

Yes

Description

First edition, LIMITED FIRST ISSUE SIGNED BY HEANEY, and one of only 325 copies of which only 300 hand-numbered copies were for sale, this being 162. With a facsimile of the opening page of the only surviving Beowulf manuscript, this illustration was not included in the trade issue and is exclusive to this Limited Printing. 8vo, the issue specially bound by Smith Settle, Otley, West Yorkshire, in cream paper-covered boards backed in reddish-brown linen, with a black cloth spine label gilt lettered, and in the publisher's green paper and reddish-brown linen slipcase. xxx, 106 pp. A mint copy, the book pristine, even the slipcase shows no hint of use, wear, or age.