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(TOLKIEN, J. R. R.) BELLOC, Hilaire.

Characters of the Reformation.

With 23 Portraits by Jean Charlot.

Publisher: London, Sheed and Ward, 1936

Stock code: 22257

Price: £2,750 Currency Conversion

First Edition. A gift from J.R.R. Tolkien to his son Michael. With a presentation leaf pasted to the front pastedown inscribed "Michael H R Tolkien from his father J.R.R.T. 22 October 1945". The recipient has stuck onto this page a slip of paper bearing his ownership signature together with a clipped picture of a library. There is his further ownership inscription dated February 1946 on the half title page.

Octavo, pp.324. Original burgundy cloth, titles to spine gilt. With 23 portraits by Jean Charlot. Front free endpaper excised, cloth marked, spine a little faded.

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