The Fall of Arthur - signed remarqued deluxe 1st edn

JRR Tolkien

ISBN 10: 0007489897 / ISBN 13: 9780007489893

Published by Harper Collins, UK, 2013

About this Item

Immaculate 1st edn/4th print copy of the deluxe edition - signed and remarqued (hand-sketched) by the cover artist Bill Sanderson. Other signed and remarqued Tolkien titles are also available at the time of listing here - including remarques by Alan Lee.

Seller Inventory # 002458

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fall of Arthur - signed remarqued deluxe 1st edn
• Publisher: Harper Collins, UK
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007489897
• ISBN 13: 9780007489893
• Binding: Hardcover, Slipcased
• Illustrator: Bill Sanderson
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 4th Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: None issued
• Signed: Signed by Illustrator(s)

About this title

Synopsis

HardCover. Pub Date :2013-11-05 Pages: 240 Language: English Publisher:. HarperCollins Deluxe collector's edition featuring the first edition text and containing a facsimile page of Tolkien's original manuscript The book is quarterbound with a gold motif stamped on the front board and is presented in a matching slipcase.The Fall of Arthur. the only venture by JRR Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain. may well be regarded as his finest and most skilful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative metre. in which he brought to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave and fateful nature of all that is told: of Arthur's expedition overseas into distant heathen lands. of Guinevere's flight from Camelot. of the great sea-battle on Arthur's return to Britain. in the portrait of the traitor Mordred. in the tormented do...

Book Description

HMH hardcover, ISBN 978-0-544-11589-7