First edition. Octavo. Publisher’s green cloth, lettered gilt, in the original dustwrapper.
 
A near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, a little wear at the base of the spine. Bookplate to front pastedown.
 
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.