HEANEY, Seamus ( translator ). Beowulf.

HEANEY, Seamus ( translator ). Beowulf.HEANEY, Seamus (translator). Beowulf. London: Faber and Faber. 1999. 8vo. Publishers dark blue paper covered boards lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket, priced 14. 99 to front flap, the front panel reproducing a detail from the painting Then Rain (1986) by Barrie Cooke, orange endpapers; pp. [ii], xxx, 106, [vi]; small bump and light diagonal crease to lower corner of the rear panel, jacket spine a little faded, small scratches to upper

HEANEY, Seamus (translator). Beowulf. London: Faber and Faber. 1999.

8vo. Publisher’s dark blue paper-covered boards lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket, priced £14.99 to front flap, the front panel reproducing a detail from the painting “Then Rain” (1986) by Barrie Cooke, orange endpapers; pp. [ii], xxx, 106, [vi]; small bump and light diagonal crease to lower corner of the rear panel, jacket spine a little faded, small scratches to upper edge of rear panel; signed by the author in black ink to the title page; a sharp, fresh, near fine copy in like jacket.

A signed first impression of Heaney’s Whitbread Prize-winning translation.

Heaney’s line-by-line rendering of this great Northern epic, one of the foundational works of English and European literature, was awarded the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 1999. It is dedicated to the memory of Ted Hughes.

Brandes & Durkan A72a.

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