Beowulf New Verse Translation, Signed (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First bilingual edition. 6th printing. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Bilingual Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 213, [18] pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Black and silver chainmail design spine with silver gilt lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "U.S.A. $25.00 -- Canada $39.95", has mild wear along the spine head edge, and a silver gilt "Winner of the Whitbread Award". Boards have mild wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild wear along the edges and stains along the edges. Signed flat by Seamus Heaney on the title page. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. Seamus Heany was born April 13, 1939 Castledawson, North Ireland, the eldest of nine children born to parents who exemplified to him the dichotomy of a Gaelic past and industrialized present and future, ideas which would influence Heany's own life. Having a long and successful career as a poet and professor, Heany would eventually take on the task of writing a translation of "Beowulf" which would come to be "Beowulf: A New Verse Translation" in 1999. "Beowulf: A New Verse Translation" would release to mixed, though almost entirely positive reviews, many hailing its beautiful prose and critics mostly critiquing his use of a Northern Irish dialect as detracting from the original poem. The work would earn the 1999 Whitbread Book of the Year Award, repeating Heany's win in 1996 with "The Spirit Level" 1390087. Special Collections.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Limited edition. Original cream boards, quarter-bound in red cloth, the spine lettered in gilt to a gilt-framed black label. Housed in the original stiff green card slipcase with upper and lower edges in red cloth. Dark green endpapers. Frontispiece colour reproduction of the opening of the only surviving manuscript of the original Anglo-Saxon poem, now held at the British Library. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents bright and clean throughout, in the equally fine slipcase. A lovely, sharp copy. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies, this example is numbered 122 (25 copies numbered I-XXV were reserved for the author) and is signed by Seamus Heaney in black ink on the limitation page. Dedicated to the memory of his friend, Ted Hughes, Heaney's line-by-line translation from the original Anglo-Saxon of this great Northern epic and foundational work of English and European literature was winner of the 1999 Whitbread Poetry Prize. (Brandes & Durkan A72b). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A lovely fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents, clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£14.99 to the front flap). Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. Dedicated to the memory of his friend, Ted Hughes, Heaney's line-by-line translation from the original Anglo-Saxon of this great Northern epic and foundational work of English and European literature was winner of the 1999 Whitbread Poetry Prize. (Brandes & Durkan A72a). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition. Signed, numbered, limited edition. Original cream boards, quarter-bound in red cloth, the spine lettered in gilt to a gilt-framed black label. Housed in the original stiff green card slipcase with upper and lower edges in red cloth. Dark green endpapers. Frontispiece colour reproduction of the opening of the only surviving manuscript of the original Anglo-Saxon poem, now held at the British Library. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents bright and clean throughout, in the equally fine slipcase. A lovely, sharp copy. Signed in black ink by Seamus Heaney, and numbered to the limitation page. One of 300 signed and numbered copies bound by Smith Settle, Otley, West Yorkshire, this copy being number 294 (25 copies numbered I-XXV were reserved for the author). Dedicated to the memory of his friend, Ted Hughes, Heaney's line-by-line translation from the original Anglo-Saxon of this great Northern epic and foundational work of English and European literature was winner of the 1999 Whitbread Poetry Prize. (Brandes & Durkan A72b). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional example. "How did he do it? How did Seamus Heaney fashion verses, singularly handsome verses that not only capture the somber grandeur and mythic vigor of the Anglo-Saxon original, but also reflect the rhythm and timbre of the English we speak today. This newborn translation makes accessible to everyone the first supremely great poem to be written in the English language" (Colin Campbell, Christian Science Monitor).

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Barrie Cooke. Author photograph by Caroline Forbes. A very sharp example. "How did he do it? How did Seamus Heaney fashion verses, singularly handsome verses that not only capture the somber grandeur and mythic vigor of the Anglo-Saxon original, but also reflect the rhythm and timbre of the English we speak today. This newborn translation makes accessible to everyone the first supremely great poem to be written in the English language" (Colin Campbell, Christian Science Monitor).

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional example. "How did he do it? How did Seamus Heaney fashion verses, singularly handsome verses that not only capture the somber grandeur and mythic vigor of the Anglo-Saxon original, but also reflect the rhythm and timbre of the English we speak today. This newborn translation makes accessible to everyone the first supremely great poem to be written in the English language" (Colin Campbell, Christian Science Monitor).