Legend Sigurd Gudrun by Tolkien J R R Edited Christopher (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good +. Bill Sanderson (illustrator). First Thus. 377 pages. Light wear along edges of brown-hued background dustjacket, not price-clipped. Very clean hardback binding with light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Pages very clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First US Edition; First Printing. In FINE crisp black boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. Lower corners VERY slightly bumped - negligible, NO damage. Remaining corners sharp. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket. Not clipped - intact. Appears unread. The d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover - As NEW. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing with the Correct Printers Key - 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Internally NO Inscriptions or marks. (8) + 377 pp. Colour frontispiece plate (3 pps before the title) reproducing a page of Tolkien's manuscript. Small black & white vignettes in the text. 'The New Lay of the Volsungs' and 'The New Lay of Gudrun'. With Commentary and Appendices. A FINE copy in a FINE dust jacket. The first publication, published simultaneously with the UK version, of a previously unknown work by J. R. R. Tolkien, his own version, in verse form, of the great legend of Northern antiquity which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrun, and the Fall of the Nibelungs. See Images; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Bill Sanderson (illustrator). First Edition. No signatures. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; [vi], 377, [1 (blank)] pages + colour frontispiece. Black boards with gilt lettering and monogram "JRRT" on spine. Page dimensions: 221 x 142mm. "Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first time, of the great legend of Northern antiquity, in two closely related poems to which he gave the titles The New Lay of the Voelsungs and The New Lay of Gudrun.In the Lay of the Voelsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fafnir most celebrated of dragons, whose treasure he took for his own; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes who were named the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood-brotherhood. In that court there sprang great love but also great hate, brought about by the power of the enchantress, mother of the Niflungs, skilled in the arts of magic, of shape-changing and potions of forgetfulness.In scenes of dramatic intensity, of confusion of identity, thwarted passion, jealousy and bitter strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild, of Gunnar the Niflung and Gudrun his sister, mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd at the hands of his blood-brothers, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudrun. In the Lay of Gudrun her fate after the death of Sigurd is told, her marriage against her will to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), his murder of her brothers the Niflung lords, and her hideous revenge.Deriving his version primarily from his close study of the ancient poetry of Norway and Iceland known as the Poetic Edda (and where no old poetry exists, from the later prose work the Voelsunga Saga), J.R.R. Tolkien employed a verse-form of short stanzas whose lines embody in English the exacting alliterative rhythms and the concentrated energy of the poems of the Edda." - Christopher Tolkien, from dust-jacket blurb.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Bill Sanderson (illustrator). First American Edition. SALE Collectible Fine First Edition Hardcover Fine Dust Jacket 2009 Numbers in Correct First Edition 10987654321 Clean 377 pp. B/W illus. Bill Sanderson. Price intact. NOT a remainder. NOT price clipped. NOT a library copy. Brilliant discussion of the Eddas, Valkyries, Dragons, and Sigurd Dragon Slayer. Dragons in J.R.R. Tolkien Legendarium. Pristine condition. See all our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Printing. Hardcover, in dustjacket. Both the book and DJ are very clean. Pages clean. As New. ; 30A; 8-1/4" x 5-1/2"; 377 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Fine in a fine wraparound illustrated dust jacket. "The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and '-30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It makes available for the first time Tolkien's extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Völsung and The Fall of the Niflungs. It includes an introduction by J.R.R. Tolkien, drawn from one of his own lectures on Norse literature, with commentary and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien."--Fantastic Fiction.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Two book set. Children of Hurin illustrated by Alan Lee.

[978-0-00-731723-3] 2009, 1st printing. (Hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 377pp. Appendices. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. (Fantasy Fiction).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second edition. Second edition. Shelley and Son Books specializes in C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien & the Inklings. Full refund if not satisfied. Full refund if not satisfied.