With christopher tolkien (11 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black cl., w. gilt colophon to cover, lettering, lines to backstr. Dj. clipped. sm. puncture front middle of hinge, light soiling. 463pp. incl. notes, index.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Very good or better with no markings, no bookplate and no remainder mark. In very good dust jacket with no chips or tears. Mild fading to spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition with complete number line to 1. A Fine unmarked book. Bright olive coloured cloth with silver stars inside a green diamond on the front board, with silver gilt titles on the spine and green stars inside green diamond and head/foot. The Map inside the rear endpaper, is absent. PLEASE see my other items for additional books by JRRT and C S Lewis and G K Chesterton and many others. Robust shipping.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition with complete number line to 1. A Fine unmarked book. Bright olive coloured cloth with silver stars inside a green diamond on the front board, with silver gilt titles on the spine and green stars inside green diamond and head/foot. The dust jacket has the original price of $15.00 on the front flap and a couple of chips to head of spine, one closed tear to bottom of rear panel, smudge to front panel, else Very Good. ISBN to back panel jacket. Map inside the rear endpaper, as expected. PLEASE see my other items for additional books by JRRT and C S Lewis and G K Chesterton and many others. Robust shipping.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG. First US. VG/VG. 8vo. original black cloth gilt (a little rubbed & marked, spotting to outer leaves and edges, trifling creasing to a few leaves) in dustwrapper priced $16.95 (rubbed & sunned, fraying and silverfishing, a few marks); pp. [viii (last blank)], 464 (last blank). A very good copy. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First American Edition. DW: PC. Minor chips, edge wear & some scuffing (now protected) 23 x 17 cm. 463 pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American edition, first printing. A fine copy; in a near fine dust jacket with minor wear to the spine ends, wrinkles to the front panel, and a short tear to the lower front edge. Front flap still bears the original $15.00 price. "A collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring. The tales were collated and edited by J.R.R. Tolkien's son and literary heir, Christopher Tolkien, who provides a short commentary on each story."--Fantastic Fiction. Winner of the 1981 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Condition: Fine/As-New. 1st American edition, 5th printing. 8vo. size, 389 pp. Black cloth covers with gilt spine titles. The 4th volume of Christopher Tolkien's exhaustive survey of his father's writings regarding Middle-earth. This volume covers prose fragments following The Lost Tales, The earliest 'Silmarillion,' the Quenta, the first 'Silmarillion' map, the Embarkanta, the earliest Annals of Valinor, and the earliest Annals of Beleriand. Includes numerous illustrations of J.R.R. Tolkien's earliest map drawings of Middle-earth. The book is fine, read once but essentially as-new. In a fine dj with one tiny tear to the bottom rear fold, but otherwise as-new. "I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider sitting in the corner at the Inn was a shock, and I had no more idea who he was than had Frodo. The Mines of Moria had been a mere name; and of Lothlorien, no word had reached my mortal ears till I came there. Far away, I knew there were the Horselords on the confines of an ancient Kingdom of Men, but Fangorn forest was an unforeseen adventure. I had never heard of the house or Eorl, nor of the Stewards of Gondor. Most disquieting of all, Saruman had never been revealed to me, and I was as mystified as Frodo at Gandalf's failure to appear on September 22."--J.R.R. Tolkien, in a letter to W.H. Auden, 7 June, 1955. In uncertain economic times, what better way to invest your money than in items of lasting value you can hold in hand and enjoy.…

George Allen & Unwin. 1981. First edition. Hardback with DW. Head and tail of spine lightly crumpled. Small black ink stain to page edges, otherwise a lovely clean copy in a slightly worn and marked wrapper with spine sunned.

Condizione: Fine. Publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers [soft back]. 4to. 10'' x 7½''. Contains 176 pp with colour illustrations throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9780192763440 POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition Thus. With full set of number: 1-10. A very small dent to the corner of one volume; otherwise: VERY GOOD+/FINE IN VERY GOOD+/FINE DUST JACKETS Size: 8vo. With Plates (illustratore).