Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925. Green cloth covered boards with gilt line border and emblem to front cover, spine detached from binding - enclosed in front of book, some light bumps and chips to corners, small bookseller plate to front pastedown, frontispiece entitled 'The Lady of the Castle visits Sir Gawain', Errata slip enclosed on page vii, some light foxing and pencil marginalia by Adrian Barnes who was a student of Tolkien in Oxford, closed edges uncut/browned, text clear to read, pp secure in binding.. First Edition. Cloth Boards. Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo.

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Bookseller: Bookcase (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 44454
Title: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Author: Tolkien, J.R.R. and Gordon, E.V. (Editors)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good Minus
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Place of Publication: Oxford
Date Published: 1925
Size: 8vo

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