First Edition. Gardner's classic retelling of the Beowulf saga through the eyes of the monster. The author's best-known book, here in signed copies of both the US and UK first printings. In his essay on the book in Horror: 100 Best Books, Dan Simmons writes, "John Gardner's Grendel is a......

First Edition. The author's second novel, here in the first edition with a blurb from Stanley Elkin on the back cover, inscribed, together with the very scarce uncorrected proof, inscribed by Gardner to Elkin, "To Stanley, any sensible novelist's hero. John." These two books appeared a year apart at PBA.....