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BEOWULF
by Heaney Seamus [Translator]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1999. 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. THE SCARCE LIMITED ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AWARD-WINNING POET. Heaney gives us a new translation of one the great Northern classics-- BEOWULF, a foundational piece of European literature. Winner of the Whitbread Award for Book of the Year, 1999.
Synopsis
Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and living on in the exhausted aftermath. Heaney's celebrated translation honours what is remote and intuits what is uncannily familiar, at the end of the twentieth century, in this founding masterpiece of English poetry. Now, for the first time, the Old English text - which survived only in a single scorched manuscript, now held in the British Museum - can be read in conjunction with the translation on facing pages. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-255).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Buddenbrooks, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33537
- Title
- BEOWULF
- Author
- Heaney Seamus [Translator]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Buddenbrooks, Inc.
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Newburyport, Massachusetts
About Buddenbrooks, Inc.
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