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Tolkien, J R R; Tolkien, Christopher.
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun. [SIGNED by Christopher Tolkien].
Publisher: Harper Collins, London;
Date of Publication: 2009
Stock Code: 11824
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. De luxe limited edition of 500 copies only, of which this is no. 377. Octavo, pp., [8], 377, [1]. With a colour frontispiece facsimile of Tolkien's original manuscript. Signed by the author’s son and editor Christopher Tolkien to the limitation leaf. Bound in full brown morocco with horse-motif centrepiece stamped in gilt to upper board and Tolkien insignia centrepiece stamped in gilt to lower board, gilt titles to spine, silk ribbon place-marker, all edges gilt. Housed in a matching velveteen-lined brown morocco slipcase with gilt Tolkien insignia. A fine copy in like slipcase. Very scarce and luxuriously bound copy of Tolkien’s previously unknown work, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun. Presumed to have been written in the 1930s and inspired by the epic stories of Sigurd found in Norse Mythology, the text is illuminated with extracts from J. R. R. Tolkien’s lectures and an extensive commentary by Christopher Tolkien considering his father’s source material. £1850.00