Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Pearl
Sir Orfeo
Translated by J.R.R. Tolkien
Edited by Christopher Tolkien
1975 First U.S. Edition
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
ISBN: 0395219701
Hardcover in dust-jacket
160 pp.
Back cover photograph by Billett Potter
Hammond Page Ref.: pp. 323-324
Notes
Typeset as for the Allen & Unwin 1975 First Edition.
This collection is comprised of Tolkien’s translations of four Middle English texts: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo and Gawain’s Leave-taking along with several short pieces by Tolkien discussing various aspects of the poems.
1st Printing: October 15, 1975 – 10,000 copies
2nd Printing: December, 1975
Jacket price: $8.95.
