Description
FIRST EDITION, fourth printing, pp. ix, 114, 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in silver, dustjacket with wrap-around illustration, fine
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Publication details: Faber and Faber,2007,
Rare Book
Bookseller Notes
Signed by the author on the title-page. The first published version of Armitage's renowned translation (which he later revised): 'The poem is also a ghost story, a thriller, a romance, an adventure story and a morality tale. For want of a better word, it is also a myth, and like all great myths of the past its meanings seem to have adapted and evolved, proving itself eerily relevant 600 years later.' (Armitage, The Guardian, 2006)
