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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
by Armitage, Simon. (Trans)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London; Folio Society, 2008., 2008. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION THUS. Folio, pp. xiii, [1], 114. With 14 full page colour illustrations by Diana Sudyka. Bound in scarlet buckram with large illustration of the Green Knight blocked in arsenic green and gilt, with gilt spine titles and top edge scarlet. Housed in a matching scarlet slipcase. Extremely light sunning to slipcase edges and slight bump to corner with very small surface loss. Fine book in a Near Fine slipcase. Attractive copy of Simon Armitage's bold and richly textured translation of the Middle English Lancastrian chivalric romance "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", which retains the Lancastrian dialect, mesmeric descriptions of landscape, and eerie atmosphere of the much loved original.
Synopsis
Translated from the Middle English.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9921
- Title
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- Author
- Armitage, Simon. (Trans)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London; Folio Society, 2008.
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- Poetry
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About the Seller
Keel Row Books
Biblio member since 2019
Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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- Buckram
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