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GRENDEL, SIGNED BY JOHN GARDNER, PERFECT COPY

GARDNER, John. Grendel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Octavo, original purple cloth, original dust jacket.

First edition of Gardner’s third novel, signed by him on the title page. An absolutely fine copy.

“Grendel, which daringly retells the Beowulf legend from the viewpoint of the monster whom Beowulf kills, is a complex and brilliantly styled parable of consciousness, the consciousness of death and the compensatory urge to create lasting monuments of the mind” (Contemporary Novelists, 493). A fine copy.