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151. TOLKIEN, J.R.R. THE SIL- MARILLION Allen & Unwin, 1977. First edition. Navy cloth, lettered gilt and emblem to the spine, in original dustwrapper, with emblems designed by J.R.R. Tolkien. Top edge blue. Fold- ing map of Beleriand printed in black and red. A near fine copy, faint offset - ting to endpapers, in a near fine dust - wrapper, bright and crisp with spine lettering unfaded, just a pin hole size nick to the spine and short closed tear to rear fold. [46546] £250 Tolkien’s life’s work, begun during the
First World War, worked on intermittently before, during and after the publications of The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord Of The Rings (1954- 55). After Tolkien’s death in 1973, the work was still not completed. Many manuscripts for sections of it survived, and these multi-layered docu- ments, often 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. Both domestic and export copies were printed simultaneously in Britain, numbering 200,000 in all, with a further 75,000 book club editions printed. Hammond A15b.
150. TOLKIEN, J.R.R. THE ROAD GOES EVER ON A Song Cy- cle. Musical Score by Donald Swann. Allen and Unwin, 1968. First edition. 4to. Original cream coloured paper covered boards in dustwrapper with decoration by Tolkien. Decorative borders throughout by Tolkien. A fine copy with an ownership inscrip - tion on the front free-endpaper, in a fine (price-clipped) dust - wrapper 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 Wil- low-meads Of Tasarinan’, ‘In Western Lands’, ‘I Sit Beside The Fire’ and ‘Namarie’. Tolkien enjoyed the performance and Swann’s company greatly, and after successful radio performances the scores were eventu- ally published, with ‘A Elbereth Gilthoniel’ and ‘Errantry’ added in the meantime, and ‘In Western Lands’ discarded. Hammond B28B.
152. TOLKIEN, J.R.R. THE FALL OF GONDOLIN Harper Collins, 2018. First edition. Signed by Alan Lee to the title page. Publisher’s black cloth in the original dustwrapper by Alan Lee. Illustrated by Alan Lee. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. [45798] £250 One of the ‘Great Tales’ of Middle-earth, being one of three stories from The Sil- marillion that Tolkien thought was de- serving of a standalone book.
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