First editon. Octavo. Publisher’s green cloth, lettered gilt, in the original dustwrapper. 
 
A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper dated 1979.
 
This is the first of his father’s books that Christopher Tolkien arranged for publication following his death in 1973. It includes Tolkien’s translations of four Middle English works: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo and Gawain’s Leave Taking.