First edition. Octavo. Publisher’s green cloth, lettered gilt, in the original dustwrapper.
 
A near fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped, dustwrapper.
 
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.