The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

by J. R R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien

$125 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1981. Letters and biography FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo, 23 x 15cm , pp. 8 463 1 . Frontispiece facsimile of Tolkien's 1938 letter to Charles Furth which he enclosed with the first chapter of 'The Fellowship of the Ring.' Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the brown typographic dust-jacket, unpriced. Top edge brown. Internally crisp and clean, with some sunning to jacket spine. Near fine. A

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