Search results for: 'TOLKIEN, J. R. R'
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TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.London : 1962
First edition, first impression. J. R. R. Tolkien specifically chose Pauline Baynes (1922-2008) to illustrate this work after the success of her illustrations in Tolkien's Father Giles of Ham (1949). Baynes went on to illustrate a number of Tolkien's works, including illustrated poster version of the maps from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbits.... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 137195
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TOLKIEN, J. R. R. [The Lord of the Rings:]London : 1954-5
First editions, first impressions. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the most influential literary works of the century. Its first reception was mixed: favourable and perceptive reviews from C. S. Lewis and from W. H. Auden, who had attended Tolkien's Oxford lectures, were countered by others who were hostile, sometimes bitterly so. But the trilogy... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 72787
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TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings.London : 1992
First Alan Lee edition to be issued in three volumes, first impressions, signed by the illustrator on each of the three title pages, and with an original pencil sketch of Gandalf to the title page of The Fellowship of the Ring. Lee's illustrations, which first appeared in a one-volume edition in the previous year, were a key inspiration for Peter Jackson... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 139292
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TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings.London : 1991
First edition illustrated by Alan Lee, first impression, signed by the illustrator on the title page. Lee's new illustrations for Tolkien's epic fantasy were a key inspiration for Peter Jackson in the making of the three Lord of the Rings films (2001-2003), for which he was recruited as a lead concept artist. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 139290
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TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings.London : 1966
Second edition, first impression. This is the final and definitive text of Lord of the Rings, revised and corrected by Tolkien from the first edition, published 1954-55. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 136602
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TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Hobbit, or there and back again.London : 1997
First edition illustrated by Alan Lee, first impression, signed by the illustrator on the title page and additionally inscribed "to Lukas, with best wishes, Alan Lee" on the front free endpaper with a large original pencil sketch of Gandalf. Lee's illustrations for Tolkien's Middle Earth epics first appeared in the 1991 edition of The Lord of the Rings.... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 139294
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TOLKIEN, J. R. R., & E. V. Gordon (eds.) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.Oxford : 1925
First edition, first impression. A scholarly edition of the Middle English alliterative romance, the text is reproduced from the original 14th-century manuscript (now held as part of the Cotton Library at the British Library) with copious notes, details and glossaries by Tolkien and Gordon. Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 138787
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TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The HobbitLondon : 1937
First colour-illustrated edition, preceded only by the first printing, which was uncoloured. Only 2,300 copies were printed of this edition, of which 423 copies in sheets were destroyed in the bombing of London in 1940. "The coloured versions of the illustrations had been commissioned for their first American edition, and were in the American publisher's... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 134336
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EDDISON, E. R. Mistress of Mistresses.London : 1935
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Sir Henry Newbolt, with my thanks for introducing me to a publisher who has dressed my book in the very dress I would have desired for it. E. R. Eddison, January 1935". Laid in is a fine 2-page autograph letter signed from Eddison to Newbolt,... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 30333
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WILLIAMS, Charles. Poems of Conformity.London : 1917
First edition, first impression. Charles Williams (1886-1945) was a British writer who was a member of the Inklings, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S Lewis's discussion group at Oxford. Williams's second book of poetry, the work is ambitious and, despite its title, anything but conformist, merging religion with sex and politics. The poet Alice Meynell gave... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 122922
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LEWIS, C. S. The Screwtape Letters.London : 1942
First edition, first impression. Taking the form of a series of letters between an experienced devil and a subordinate, The Screwtape Letters addresses numerous questions of Christian theology. Though the book sparkles with wit, Lewis found its composition difficult and unpleasant: "The strain produced a sort of spiritual cramp... It almost smothered... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 132223
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LEWIS, C. S. The Screwtape Letters.London : 1942
First edition, first impression. Taking the form of a series of letters between an experienced devil and a subordinate, The Screwtape Letters addresses numerous questions of Christian theology. Though the book sparkles with wit, Lewis found its composition difficult and unpleasant: "The strain produced a sort of spiritual cramp... It almost smothered... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 132175
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WILLIAMS-ELLIS, Amabel. Fairy Tales from the British Isles.London & Glasgow : 1960
First edition, first impression, signed by the illustrator on the half-title and with an impish correction of the title from "Fairy", which she crossed out, to "Mouse Tales". Baynes (1922-2008) had already worked with Williams-Ellis on her previous publication, The Arabian Nights (1957). She had also very successfully illustrated several of... Learn More£900.00Stock Code: 138071
