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John Gardner. Grendel. Alfred A. Knopf, 1971.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Jacket spine is sunned, but legibility is not impacted. Jacket is worn, especially along edges. Inside jacket edges are foxed. Spine is cracked but secure. Cover and edges are worn. Text block and front end-papers are foxed. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Gardner, John. Grendel. Alfred A. Knopf, 1971.

Price: US$32.92 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.1

Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.

Gardner, John. Grendel. Alfred A. Knopf, 1971.

Price: US$32.92 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.1

Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.

Gardner, John. Grendel. Alfred A. Knopf, 1971.

Price: US$32.92 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.1

Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.

Gardner, John. Grendel. Alfred A.Knopf, 1971.

Price: US$49.99 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: ISBN:1431039447. A USED BOOK STILL IN GOOD CONDITION. LITTLE WEARS ON DUST JACKET CORNER AND EDGE. FORMER LIBRARY BOOK WITH LIMITED LIBRARY MARK.PAGES ARE STILL CLEAN AND BINDING STILL TIGHT. LITTLE YELLOWING PAPER BECAUSE OF AGE.TOTAL 174 PAGES.

Seller: FULFILLINGTHRIFTBOOKHOUSE, TAMUNING, Guam

Gardner, John. Grendel. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1971.

Price: US$55.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Dust jacket price-clipped and taped to book. Previous owner's ink stamp on first page.

Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.

GARDNER, John.. GRENDEL.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971. First Edition., 1971.

Price: US$67.11 + shipping

Description: 8vo, 174pp. Very good hardback copy, in dust jacket with faded spine .

Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia

Gardner, John and Emil Antonnucci (illus.). GRENDEL. Alfred A. Knopf: NY, 1971.

Price: US$74.75 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Illus., 8.5 x 5.5", gilt-dec purple cloth, 174pp, extremities lightly rubbed, bumped and sunned, textblock edges lightly toned else a nice, clean copy in an unevenly sunned, edge-worn/torn dustjacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

john gardner. grendel. alfred a. knopf, new york, 1971.

Price: US$84.75 + shipping

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Seller: leaves, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.

Gardner, John. Grendel. Alfred A. Knopf Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A., 1971.

Price: US$140.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: (1st) Slightly smaller book, purple cloth, gilt design at bottom front very fine, gilt lettering fine on spine, 174 heavy lightly browned pages. DJ beneath mylar, orange background with black design at bottom front left, spine faded to yellow, praise on back for "The Wreckage of Agathon" from William H. Gass, Christopher Lehrmann Haupt in New York Times. DJ has slight surface wear to spine top and bottom edges and top back tip. Near Very Good DJ/Fine book.

Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.

Gardner, John. Grendel. Alfred A. Knopf 1971 New York, 1971.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: stated first edition; textblock, binding and dustjacket all in very good condition (spine of dj faded); 174 pages; the monster's side of the Beowolf story (and a literary masterpiece);

Seller: Book Den East, oak bluffs, MA, U.S.A.

John Gardner. Grendel. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 174 (6) pp, 14 drawings by Emil Antonucci, stated First Edition, Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked with light age-toning to text block, cloth with slightly dimmered letters and design, .DJ price clipped slightly faded spine. 5.9" x 8.6". Decorative purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated bright orange dj in acetate protector. Size: Small Thin Octavo

Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.

Gardner, John. Grendel. Alfred A. Knopf Inc, New York, NY, 1971.

Price: US$185.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A very clean and tight copy of John Gardner's best known novel. "Grendel" is a retelling of the "Beowolf" story from the perspective of the monster. Comic, grotesque, at times very sad. The novel explores, one after another, the chief values of human beings, compares these with monsters' values, and demonstrates that monsters are better. Slight fading to the cover and spine as is common but overall a very attractive copy.

Seller: Mike Murray - Bookseller LLC, East Windsor, NJ, U.S.A.

GARDNER, JOHN. GRENDEL. NEW YORK NY ALFRED A KNOPF CO PUB 1971., 1971.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: NF/VG+. BOOK IS FINE BUT FOR A NEAT GIFT INSCRIPTION ON THE BLANK PAGE FOLLOWING THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. D.J. HAS A SLIGHT BIT OF RUB AT THE CORNERS AND SPINE ENDS WITH A TINY TEAR AT THE BOTOTM OF THE FRONT PANEL AT THE SPINE CORNER, A COUPLE TINY TEARS AT THE TOP OF THE SPINE, AND PRICE-CLIPPED. A VERY NICE COPY. FIRST EDITION.

Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.

GARDNER, John. Grendel. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971.

Price: US$330.00 + shipping

Description: First printing. Octavo (22cm). Original purple cloth, stamped in gilt, purple topstain, in orange dust jacket; plain endpapers; [x], 174, [4]pp; publisher's ad to jacket rear; illustrated with line drawings by Emil Antonucci. Straight and tight, very slightly faded along extreme upper edge, else Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $5.95), dated 9/71, spine faded, one or two tiny tears and bumps to edges, crease to front flap, overall Very Good or better. Gardner's most acclaimed work, an existentialist retelling of Beowulf from the monster Grendel's point of view.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

Gardner, John. Grendel.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of Gardner's classic retelling of Beowulf, as told from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 14 drawings by Emil Antonucci. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The first and most terrifying monster in English literature tells his own side (the true side) of the Beowulf story in this revisionist novel by the author of The Wreckage of Agathon- a book William Gass has called "one of the finest of our contemporary fictions."

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

GARDNER, John. Grendel. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. 174pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. A near-fine copy with fading as usual to spine panel of jacket. FIRST EDITION, review copy, with slip laid-in.

Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

john gardner. grendel. alfred a knopf, new york, 1971.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Stated first edition, no fading to dj not price clipped , ffep has a red circle with an H inside stamped otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket has tiny chip on back corner, some very minor rubbing.

Seller: broken wing books, blaine, MN, U.S.A.

GARDNER, JOHN. Grendel. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition. Illustrated by Emil Antonucci. Gardner's third novel, a version of the Beowulf legend told from the monster's point of view. Fine in about fine dustjacket, with almost no fading to orange spine panel, and quite uncommon as such.

Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.

John Gardner. Grendel (Review Copy). Alfred A. Knopf, ew York, 1971.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A lovely copy of the 1971 stated 1st edition. A Review Copy to boot, with the Alfred A. Knopf Review Slip laid-in. Tight and Near Fine (with one or two microscopic spots at the bottom-edge) in a bright, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket, with none of the customary fading along the spine. One tiny spot at the rear panel's bottom-edge, otherwise the dustjacket is pristine. Octavo, 174 pgs. A superb copy of John Gardner's "breakthrough" novel.

Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.

Gardner, John. GRENDEL .. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's third novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-255. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-112. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 67. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 48. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 675-79. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, p. 87. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A brilliant copy with the merest hint of the nearly inevitable fading to dust jacket spine panel. Quite uncommon thus. (#99140)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

GARDNER, John. Grendel. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971.

Price: US$550.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Slight soiling on front fly, about fine in price-clipped very lightly spine-sunned near fine dust jacket. Gardner's best known novel, a retelling of the Beowulf story from the point of view of the monster. A nice copy.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

John Gardner. Grendel. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: An immaculate copy of the Author's most popular book. Book is in fine, unread condition without any markings. a nice owner's bookplate pasted to FFEP. DJ is without any tears or chips or fading, with a minute hint of sunning that is barely noticeable. Must see to appreciate. Photos on request. PRICE REDUCED - NET

Seller: IEBOOKMAN, PRESCOTT, AZ, U.S.A.

Gardner, John. GRENDEL. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: First printing of the darkly alluring reinvention of BEOWULF from the perspective of the monster. An influential combination of postmodern parable and classic retelling, a companion to the rich reinventions of Angela Carter and, in the 21st century, Madeline Miller in CIRCE. GRENDEL is maze of existential slipperiness so beautifully crafted that the reader can't help but sink into its worldview, and in so doing upend all the comfortable assumptions of morality and consciousness that keep philosophical chaos at bay. Postmodern Frankenstein. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original purple cloth stamped in gilt. In original unclipped ($5.95) orange pictorial dust jacket with drawing by Emil Antonucci. Purple topstain, fore-edge machine deckle. Illustrated by Antonucci with in-text line drawings. [10], 174, [4] pages. Sliver of faint sunning to edges of boards. Jacket with very mild fading to spine, as common. Overall sharp and clean. Near fine in a near fine jacket.

Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.

Gardner, John. GRENDEL. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. The author's third novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-255. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-112. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 67. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 48. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 675-79. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, p. 87. Slight bump to upper rear corner, a fine copy in fine dust jacket with several small mild wrinkles to upper rear corner. A sharp copy. (17029)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.

GARDNER, John.. Grendel.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: 174 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Small ink inscription to front free endpaper. Very slight fading to top edge; else a near fine copy in a bright unchipped jacket. The jacket has just some of the usual fading to the spine. The edges of the flaps are very lightly foxed.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Gardner, John. GRENDEL .. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's third novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-255. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-112. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 67. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 48. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 675-79. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, p. 87. Mild bump to upper rear corner, a fine copy in fine dust jacket with several small mild wrinkles to upper rear corner. A lovely copy. (#155317)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

GARDNER, John. Grendel. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Fine in a spine-faded dustwrapper that is otherwise fine. Signed and dated by Gardner on the front free endpaper: "John Gardner, April 17, 1974." Although not inscribed, this copy is from the collection of Nicholas Delbanco, dated the day after Delbanco's first meeting with Gardner, as he recalled in his introduction to Gardner's posthumously published *Stillness and Shadows*. Gardner and acclaimed novelist and critic Delbanco first forged a friendship when Delbanco hosted Gardner during a reading tour at Bennington College in 1974. Delbanco ended up hiring Gardner for the English Department at the College. They and their families began a close professional and personal relationship in which each of the authors strove to critique the other's works in private and promote them in public, Gardner touting Delbanco as "one of the country's best novelists." Each acknowledged the contribution of the other in developing both their theories of literature and for specific elements of their respective works, whether it be Delbanco using Gardner's title *Stillness* for one of his novels or Gardner using Delbanco's writing to help clarify the husband-wife relationship in one of his own works. Delbanco's home and family became a refuge for both Gardner and his first wife during their messy divorce. Following Gardner's death in a 1982 motorcycle accident, Delbanco became Gardner's literary executor; editing and contributing an introduction to Gardner's posthumously published *Stillness and Shadows*. Delbanco's daughter Francesca, who was an occasional babysitter of Gardner's children, and who has herself published two well-received novels, *Ask Me Anything* and *Midnight in Manhattan* was the dedicatee of one of Gardner's acclaimed children's books, *The King of Hummingbirds*. A significant association copy of Gardner's important and best-known novel, a retelling of the Beowulf story from the point of view of the monster.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.