The Alliterative Morte Arthure : The Owl and the Nightingale and Five Other Middle English Poems by Gardner, John

UsedVeryGood. Pages are clean! Minor shelf wear Some corner dings. The dust jacket is missing. The front text block edge is deckled Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Carbondale and Edwardsville/London and Amsterdam: Southern Illinois University Press/Feffer & Simons, 1971 Ex-lib but minimal marking, new ffep, quarter cloth with decorative boards a little marked, generally VG in slightly scratched and worn, good DJ. Contains also Winner and Waster; The Parliament of the Three Ages; Summer Sunday;The Debate of Body and Soul;The Thrush and the Nightingale.

Carbondale & Edwardsville: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, [1971]. 8vo. xi, [3], 298 pp. Quarter-blue cloth over patternd boards, gilt & red lettrng & decrtn on spine (mnr shlfwr, slhgt soilng to fore-edge), w/ d.j. dmpstng & tidemrk to spine, still a VG-/G- copy. First edition, 1st printing of this scarce and exceptionally vigorous translation of seven relatively little-known medieval English poems, including the first complete modern English poetic rendering of the Alliterative Morte Arthure.

Southern Illinois University Press. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971. Very Good/Very Good. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971. First Edition. Signed by Gardner without inscription on full title. Octavo; [xi], 298pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $12.50 price intact; book in patterned reddish-purple boards and navy cloth spine with gilt lettering and red decoration. Jacket lightly rubbed at corners and spine ends with a few faint smudges to surface, but no chips or tears. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. [Howell A.IX-1a].