Poems and Stories.

Tolkien (J.R.R.)

Poems and Stories.

Illustrated by Pauline Baynes.

Description: FIRST EDITION, half-title printed in orange with decorative border by Pauline Baynes adding grey and brown, title and fly-titles printed in orange, illustrations by Baynes throughout with many full-page and printed in brown, orange and grey, sectional endpapers by Baynes in white on orange, pp. 342, 8vo, original black cloth with Tolkien's 'Tree of Amalion' stamped in gilt to upper board with leaves in green, backstrip lettered and bordered in gilt, green-speckled edges, patterned endpapers, ex libris stamp to verso of flyleaf, enclosed in the original tissue wrapper (slightly ragged at one edge), and in the original black box with printed label to lid, the box split in a couple of places (as often), very good

Publication Details: George Allen & Unwin, 1980

Notes: An attractive collection, which includes 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil', 'The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son', 'On Fairy-Stories', 'Leaf by Niggle', 'Farmer Giles of Ham', and 'Smith of Wootton Major' - the use of colour in Baynes's updated illustrations make this an attractive and harmonious edition.

Bibliography: (Hammond & Anderson A16)

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