BEOWULF: A New Verse Translation. by HEANEY, Seamus [translator]:

London: Faber and Faber. 1999. First edition. First edition. Signed, numbered, limited edition. Original cream boards, quarter-bound in red cloth, the spine lettered in gilt on a black background. Housed in the original stiff green card slipcase with upper and lower edges in red cloth. Dark green endpapers. Frontispiece colour reproduction of the opening of the only surviving manuscript of the original poem, now held at the British Library. A very fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents bright and clean throughout, without inscriptions or stamps; in the equally fine slipcase. A lovely, sharp copy. Signed in black ink by Seamus Heaney, and numbered to the limitation page. One of 300 copies, this being number 83 (25 copies numbered I-XXV were reserved for the author). Bound by Smith Settle, Otley, West Yorkshire. Winner of the 1999 Whitbread Poetry Prize. (Brandes & Durkan A72b). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.