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Beowulf.
Prose trans. and intro. by David Wright.
Penguin Classics 1964 rep. Glossary, 121pp., card covers, sp. sl. creased else good. 3.00
Beowulf: An Old English Epic.
Trans. into modern English prose by Wentworth Huyshe with notes and illustrations.
Routledge nd. c. 1908 Frontis., illus. throughout, list of editions and translations, 216pp. Original maroon, dec. cloth, sp. sunned., teg., some wear to spine, foxing else good. 10.00
Beowulf with The Finnsburg Fragment.
Ed. by A.J. Wyatt.
New ed. with intro. and notes by R.W. Chambers.
Cambridge UP. 1914 Glossary, 254pp., copious notes of previous owners throughout; lacks ffep., sp. loose and worn; very much a working copy. 5.00
Beowulf.
A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney.
NY 213pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Bliss, Alan.
An Introduction to Old English Metre.
Basil Blackwell 1962 33pp., card covers torn else good. 2.50
Cook, Albert S.
First Book in Old English: Grammar, Reader, Notes and Vocabulary.
Ginn 1921 rep. 330pp., ep's. and edges dusty, sp. dull else good. 5.00
Davis, Norman (Revised).
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer.
Oxford UP. 1978 9th. ed. rep. 129pp., inscr., else good in d/w. 4.00
Garmonsway, G.N. (Trans.)
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Dent 1977 rep. 350g. Index, 295pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Gordon, R.K. (Sel. and trans.)
Anglo-Saxon Poetry.
Dent Everyman's Library nd. c. 1920 367pp., sp. dull else good. 5.00
Greenfield, Stanley B.
A Critical History of Old English Literature.
Univ. of London P. 1966 Frontis., plates, index, 237pp., maps, inscr., else good in d/w. 12.00
Jane, L.C. (Trans. and intro.).
Asser's Life of King Alfred.
The Medieval Library.
Chatto and Windus 1926 Frontis., notes, index, 163pp., brown gilt dec. boards, some underlining, inscr., else good. 6.00
Klaeber, Fr. (Ed., intro., biblio., notes, glossary and appendices)
Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg.
D.C. Heath c. 1928 Frontis., plates, 446pp., occasional underlining, inscr., sl. dull and blotched else good. 15.00
Magnusson, Magnus; Mackie, Sheila; Glover, Julian.
Beowulf: An adaptation by Julian Glover of the verse translations of Michael Alexander and Edwin Morgan.
Alan Sutton 1988 Large 8vo. Coloured plates, 133pp., ffep. sl. rubbed else good in d/w. 7.50
Onions, C.T. (Rev.)
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse.
Oxford UP. 1965 14th. ed. Glossary, 312pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Sedgefield, W.J.
An Anglo-Saxon Book of Verse and Prose.
Manchester: At The Univ. P. 1928 Various notes, glossaries and indexes of names of persons and places throughout this scholarly work. 473pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, covers dull else good and sound. 15.00
Stanley, E.G.
The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism.
D.S. Brewer 1975 Notes, index, 143pp., inscr., else good in d/w. 10.00