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Egil's Saga.: Done into English out of the Icelandic with an introduction, notes, and an essay on some principles of translation.
by EDDISON, E. R. (trans.)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cambridge: The University Press,, 1930. With the scarce dust jacket First Eddison edition, first impression, scarce in the dust jacket. This was only the second translation into English, after W. C. Green's 1893 translation, which Eddison judged as "being so bad as to be unreadable". A Norse scholar and author of epic fantasy novels whose works drew high praise from Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, Eddison (1882-1945) was an occasional member of the Inklings. This copy bears the mid-20th-century ownership inscription of R. H. Llewellyn, an expert on European medieval literature at Temple University, Philadelphia, on the front free endpaper. Octavo. Original red cloth (also found in green, no established priority), spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. With 2 double-page maps to rear. A very good copy, extremities rubbed, offsetting and foxing to endpapers, small chip and closed tear to rear free endpaper fore edge, in like dust jacket, price-clipped, negligible creasing and foxing to edges, a couple of short closed tears to top edge, trace of prior tape repair to verso at head of spine.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 158272
- Title
- Egil's Saga.
- Author
- EDDISON, E. R. (trans.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge: The University Press,
- Date Published
- 1930
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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