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Beowulf : The Monsters and the Critics This essay is a transcript of Tolkien's Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture for the British Academy, 1936. First published in pamphlet form in the UK, 1937. This is a list of later limited editions.
Folcroft Press 1972, 1985 Red buckram library binding, gold title on spine, no jacket. A 1985 title page states that "This title has been printed in a limited edition of 100." I do not know how many total copies were printed by this publisher. ISBN: 0841407703
Norwood Editions 1975 Red buckram library binding, gold title on spine, no jacket. Limited print run. ISBN: 0883056550
Richard C. West, 1977 Green buckram library binding, silver title on spine, no jacket. Apparently under 100 printed, all donated to midwestern libraries. ISBN: 0849226090
Longwood Press Ltd., 1977 Paperback ISBN: 0856720038
Arden Library 1978 Red buckram library binding, gold title on spine, no jacket. Reportedly 150 printed. ISBN: 0849551072

	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Pearl / Sir Orfeo Houghton Mifflin 1975 First U.S. edition, hardcover with dust jacket. First printing RRP $8.95 ISBN: 0395219701 ISBN-13: 9780395219706
	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Pearl / Sir Orfeo Houghton Mifflin Trade Paperback 1978 Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. This is occasionally titled "Three Tales from the Middle Ages" by sellers because that's what the first line of print on the book cover says. RRP $3.95 ISBN-10: 0395264693 ISBN-13: 9780395264690
	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Pearl / Sir Orfeo Ballantine Paperback 1980 Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Approximately 30 printings in this cover. Original RRP $2.95 ISBN-10: 0345277600 ISBN-13: 9780345277602
	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Pearl / Sir Orfeo Ballantine Paperback reprint 2003 Do not ask me how these got labeled Ballantine instead of Del Rey in 2003, but such is indeed the case. RRP $6.99 - $7.99 ISBN-10: 0345277600 ISBN-13: 9780345277602
	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Pearl / Sir Orfeo Easton Press 2019 Full leather bindng, gold gilt page edges, gilt cover decoration, ribbon marker. RRP $99.00 PBN: 3478
	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Pearl / Sir Orfeo Mariner Books Trade Paperback 2021 Available new. RRP $16.99 ISBN-10: 0395264693 ISBN-13: 9780395264690
	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Pearl / Sir Orfeo Del Rey Paperback reprint Available new, RRP $7.99 ISBN-10: 0345277600 ISBN-13: 9780345277602

	The Old English Exodus Oxford University Press, 1981 J. R. R. Tolkien (Author, Translator), Joan Turville-Petre (Editor). Hardcover in dark blue cloth, with dust jacket. Reportedly only 3000 printed, but I don't know where. OUP publishes worldwide, and when you find one for sale it is often in the US, so I assume a fair number hit the US market. RRP $19.95 ISBN-10: 0198111770 ISBN-13: 9780198111771
	Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode Houghton Mifflin First Edition 1983 Edited by Alan Bliss. Brown cloth hardcover in dust jacket. RRP $15.95 ISBN-10: 0395331935 ISBN-13: 9780395331934
	Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode Firebird Distributing; International Edition 1998 Edited by Alan Bliss. Paperback. Available new. RRP $9.95 ISBN-10: 0261103555 ISBN-13: 9780261103559
	The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays Houghton Mifflin First Edition 1984 Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Blue cloth hardcover with dust jacket. RRP $15.95 ISBN-10: 0395356350 ISBN-13: 9780395356357

	Beowulf and the Critics (Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies Vol. 248) Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ASU), 2002 Michael D.C. Drout, Editor. Hardcover, DJ. This critical study presents earlier manuscript versions of "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics. At least three printings. RRP $38.00 ISBN-10: 0866982906 ISBN-13: 9780866982900
	Beowulf and the Critics (ACMRS Revised Second Edition Vol. 402) Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ASU), 2011 Hardcover, Michael D.C. Drout, Editor. RRP $58.00 ISBN-10: 086698450X ISBN-13: 9780866984508
	Beowulf and the Critics (ACMRS Revised Second Edition Vol. 402) Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ASU), 2011 Leather-bound collectors edition, RRP $139.00 ISBN-10: 0866981845 ISBN-13: 9780866981842

A Middle English Reader and Vocabulary

Dover Publications, Pictoral Hardcover, 2005
Tolkien's contribution to this book (A Middle English Vocabulary) was originally published as a separate volume. Available new. RRP $21.95

ISBN: 0486440230 ISBN-13: 9780486440231

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