TREE AND LEAF

by J. R R. Tolkien, W. H. Auden

$15,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. Uncorrected proof of the first US edition of Tolkien's long essay on fairy tales, accompanied by an exemplary story — W.H. Auden's copy. Very good. Item #52710 Though unsigned, this copy is W.H. Auden's, with his markings in the text and notes including a list of the seven deadly sins on the blank verso of the last leaf. Auden famously wrote a 1954 NEW YORK TIMES review

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