First edition. 8vo. Original dark blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. London, Faber and Faber, 1999.
From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell’s Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell’s Complete Works published 1997-8.
A near fine copy in dust jacket of Heaney’s renown translation of this Anglo Saxon epic.
