The Old English Exodus
Text, Translation and Commentary by J.R.R. Tolkien
Edited by Joan Turville-Petre
1981 First U.S. Edition
Oxford University Press
New York
ISBN: 0198111770
Hardcover in dust-jacket
x, 86 pp.
Not illustrated
Hammond Page Ref.: p. 341
Notes
This book is comprised of Tolkien’s text and translation of the Old English poem Exodus. They are accompanied by a commentary that has been produced by editing his notes for a series of informal lectures given in the 1930s and 1940s and retouched in the 1950s.
1st Printing: January 28, 1982* – 3,000 copies**
Not reprinted.
Jacket price: £7.95. Copies were sold in the U.S. for $19.95 and were probably all price-clipped.
*Copyright © 1981.
**Divided between the U.K. and the U.S.