AN ENDURING MAGIC
SIGNED BY CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN
76. The Road Goes Ever On A Song Cycle. Musical Score by Donald Swann. TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
77. The Silmarillion TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
Allen & Unwin, 1977. First edition. Signed by Christopher Tolkien on the front free endpaper. Navy cloth, lettered gilt to the spine, in original dustwrapper, with emblems designed by J.R.R. Tolk- ien. Folding map of Beleriand printed in black and red. A fine copy in a very near fine, price-clipped,dustwrapper, bright and crisp with just a little fading to the uppermost part of the spine and upper cover. [45795] A rare example of a signed first edition of The Silmarillion. Tolkien’s life work, begun during the First World War, worked on inter- mittently before, during and after the publications of The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord Of The Rings (1954-55).After Tolkien’s
Allen and Unwin, 1968. First edition. 4to. Original cream coloured paper covered boards in dustwrapper with decoration by Tolk- ien. Decorative borders throughout by Tolkien. A fine copy with an ownership inscription on the front free-endpaper, in a fine (price-clipped) dustwrapper with a hint of tanning on the spine. [45804] £450 A beautifully produced book, in which Donald Swann sets to music Tolkien’s poems of Middle-Earth. Swann and Tolkien met at Priscilla Tolkien’s home in May 1965, and Swann gave a private performance of his compositions for ‘The Road Goes Ever On’, ‘Upon The Hearth The Fire Is Red’, ‘In The Willow-meads Of Tasarinan’, ‘In Western Lands’, ‘I Sit Beside The Fire’ and ‘Namarie’. Tolkien enjoyed the performance and Swann’s company greatly, and af- ter successful radio performances the scores were eventually published, with ‘A Elbereth Gilthoniel’ and ‘Errantry’ added in the meantime, and ‘In Western Lands’ discarded. Hammond B28B.
death in 1973, the work was still not completed. Many manuscripts for sections of it survived, and these mul- ti-layered documents, of- ten amended and revised over many years, had to be worked through by his son Christopher Tolkien and Guy Gavriel Kay. By late 1976 the disparate source material had been honed into the text of a single, coherent work. Although not rare as a book, copies signed by the book’s editor and author of the foreword are few.
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