THE LEGEND OF SIGURD GUDRUN By J.R.R. Tolkien Edited by Christopher Tolkien Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. First edition, first printing. Fine in a fine wraparound illustrated dust jacket. "The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and '-30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It makes available for the first time Tolkien's extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Volsung and The Fall of the Niflungs. It includes an introduction by J.R.R. Tolkien, drawn from one of his own lectures on Norse literature, with commentary and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien."--Fantastic Fiction. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE BOOKS THANKS! Created by Seller's Assistant Basic.