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Heritage Auctions - June 9 2021
9 Jun, 2021
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2021-6-9 3:02:10 AM UTC
2021-6-9 3:02:10 AM UTC
Sorry for the late notice. Tomorrow the following lots are going under the live hammer at Heritage Auctions. I spoke with the staff there about provenance, and I am told the signed book have bookplates from the collection of Nan C. Scott, who visited Tolkien in Oxford with her husband in 1966. From Scull and Hammond's Chronology (2017), ?Late July or early August 1966 entry on p. 705, "Nan C. Scott and her husband visit Tolkien again, taking some books for him to sign."
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1963. First American edition, later impressions. All signed by the author to the half-titles.
The Fellowship of the Ring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1963. First American edition, thirteenth impression. Signed by the author to the half-title. Octavo. 423, [1] pages. Three illustrations after Tolkien and two maps (printed in red and black) after Tolkien's son, Christopher: Map of the Shire (page 24), The Ring inscription (page 59), The Gate of Moria (page [319]), the inscription on Balin's Tomb (page 333), large folding map (mounted to rear free endpaper recto). Publisher's blue cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket after Walter Lorraine. Corners bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine pushed and worn, light soiling to head of spine and small stain to front board. Cream endpapers; bookplate to front free endpaper recto. Internally generally clean and tight, all edges trimmed; 3-inch closed tear to fold-out map closed with cellotape but not affecting image, minor intermittent foxing, text block edges toned with minor wear. Dust jacket unclipped ($5.95); heavy edgewear and losses, spine sunned, toned, rubbed and worn, irregular open tears to head and foot of spine panel and corners, spine panel heavily repaired with cellotape to recto and verso, tape toned. Very good book with fair dust jacket.
[Together with]: The Two Towers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1963. First American edition, tenth impression. Signed by the author to the half-title. Octavo. 352 pages. Illustrated with one large folding map after Christopher Tolkien, printed in red and black and mounted to rear free endpaper recto. Publisher's blue cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket after Walter Lorraine. Sprung, corners bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine pushed and worn. Cream endpapers; bookplate to front free endpaper recto. Internally clean, all edges trimmed; gutter cracked at half-title page, text block edges toned with minor wear. Dust jacket unclipped ($5.95); heavy edgewear and losses, spine sunned, toned, rubbed and worn, irregular open tears to head and foot of spine panel and corners, spine panel repaired with cellotape to recto.
[And]: The Return of the King. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1963. First American edition, tenth impression. Signed by the author to the half-title. Octavo. 416 pages. Illustrated with one large folding map after Christopher Tolkien, printed in red and black and mounted to rear free endpaper recto. Publisher's blue cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket after Walter Lorraine. Cream endpapers; plate to front free endpaper recto. Corners bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine pushed and worn. Internally clean, all edges trimmed; gutter cracked at half-title page, text block edges toned with minor wear. Dust jacket unclipped ($5.95); heavy edgewear and losses, spine sunned, toned, rubbed and worn, irregular open tears to head and foot of spine panel and corners, spine panel repaired with cellotape to recto and verso, tape toned. Very good book with good dust jacket.
Sold including Buyer's Premium : $30,000
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1954-1955. First editions, first impressions, with original illustrated dust jackets.
The Fellowship of the Ring. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1954. First edition, first impression, with signature mark "4" to page 49. Octavo. 423, [1, colophon). Three illustrations after Tolkien and two maps (printed in red and black) after Tolkien's son, Christopher: Map of the Shire (page 24), The Ring inscription (page 59), The Gate of Moria (page [319]), the inscription on Balin's Tomb (page 333), large folding map (mounted to rear free endpaper recto). Publisher's red cloth, spine stamped in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket. Head and foot of spine just pushed, gilt to spine somewhat darkened, 0.75-inch narrow stain to upper board. Cream endpapers; light pencil mark to front free endpaper recto. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed, top edge stained red; stain to top edge unevenly faded, minor text block edgewear. Dust jacket unclipped (21s); spine and top edges sunned, light stain to front panel at spine fold, 0.5-inch closed tear to head of spine, minor edgewear. Near fine book with near fine dust jacket.
[Together with]: The Two Towers. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1954. First edition, first impression, with signature mark "4" to page 49. Octavo. 352 pages. Illustrated with one large folding map after Christopher Tolkien, printed in red and black and mounted to rear free endpaper recto. Publisher's red cloth, spine stamped in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket. Head and foot of spine just pushed, gilt to spine somewhat darkened, minor soiling along joints and to the upper corner of the lower board. Cream endpapers; some offsetting. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed, top edge stained red; stain to top edge unevenly faded, minor text block edgewear. Dust jacket unclipped (21s); spine and top edges sunned, minor edgewear. Near fine book with near fine dust jacket.
[And]: The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1955. First edition, first impression, third state with signature mark "4" to page 49. Octavo. 416 pages. Illustrated with one large folding map after Christopher Tolkien, printed in red and black and mounted to rear free endpaper recto. Publisher's red cloth, spine stamped in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket. Head and foot of spine just pushed, gilt to spine somewhat darkened, minor soiling along joints and to the upper corner of the lower board. Cream endpapers; some offsetting, minor foxing. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed, top edge stained red; stain to top edge unevenly faded, minor text block edgewear, minor intermittent foxing chiefly to edges. Dust jacket unclipped (21s); spine and top edges sunned, minor edgewear, minor foxing to back panel. Near fine book with near fine dust jacket.
Sold including Buyer's Premium : $47,500
J. R. R. Tolkien. Tree and Leaf. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1965. First American edition, first printing. Signed the by author to the half-title. 16mo. 112 pages. Publisher's blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket. Minor edgewear, small abrasion to foot of spine. Blue-green endpapers; ink ownership to front free endpaper recto. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed, top edge stained orange; minor text block edgewear. Dust jacket unclipped ($4.00); minor edgewear, chipping to head and foot of spine and corners with some losses, 2-inch closed tear to front panel closed on verso with cellotape, somewhat toned to white portions but colors still bright, small dampstain to back panel at rear flap fold. Near fine book with very good dust jacket.
Sold including Buyer's Premium : $5,750
J. R. R. Tolkien. Farmer Giles of Ham. Edinburgh, New York, Toronto: Thomas Nelson & Sons, [1961]. Early American mixed issue with cancel title page, stated "fifth impression" to the front flap of the dust jacket. Signed by the author to the half-title. Octavo. 78, [2] pages. Illustrated with two plates and text illustrations by Pauline Diana Baynes. Publisher's pictorial pale-yellow textured paper with a dragon stamped in blue to the upper board (after text illustration on page 42), spine lettered in blue; original illustrated dust jacket by Pauline Diana Baynes. Foot of spine just pushed. Endpapers illustrated with a repeating pattern of the dragon in blue on white paper; bookplate and ink ownership to front free endpaper recto and ink gift inscription to verso. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed; pages 43-48 creased in lower corner but not affecting text. Dust jacket unclipped ($3.00), imprint at the foot of spine reads "Allen and Unwin / Houghton Mifflin; minor edgewear, spine sunned, light chipping to head and foot of spine and corners, minor soiling to back panel. Near fine book with near fine dust jacket.
Sold including Buyer's Premium : $3,875
J. R. R. Tolkien, E. V. Gordon [editors]. Sir Gawain & The Green Knight. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925. First edition. Octavo. 211, [1, colophon] pages; laid paper with watermark, errata slip at page [vii]. Illustrated with two black and white photographic plates with tissue guards. Publisher's pictorial green cloth, ruled in gilt and with axe ornament in gilt to the center of the upper board, spine stamped in gilt; original printed dust jacket. Corners rubbed, head and foot of spine pushed and somewhat worn. Cream endpapers; bookplate to front pastedown, small pencil notation to rear pastedown. Internally generally clean and tight, edges untrimmed; somewhat foxed, chiefly to front and back of text block and edges, text block edges toned with minor wear. Dust jacket without a price listed; minor edgewear, chipping to head and foot of spine and corners with some losses, creased at folds, somewhat foxed and soiled. Very good book with very good dust jacket.
Sold including Buyer's Premium : $4,500
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1963. First American edition, first printing stated on the copyright page. Signed by the author to the half-title page. Octavo. 63, [1] pages. Full-color illustrated boards, rounded spine lettered in black; original illustrated dust jacket by Pauline Baynes. Minor edgewear, head and foot of spine pushed. White endpapers; bookplate to front free endpaper recto. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed. Dust jacket price clipped; chipping to head and foot of spine and corners, spine sunned, minor edgewear. Very good book with very good dust jacket.
Sold including Buyer's Premium : $6,875
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit. Or, There and Back Again. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., no date [circa 1963]. Second American edition, presumed 15-17th impression. Signed by the author to the half-title. Lacking color frontispiece or red coloring to maps; with the original description of the revised edition beginning with "In this reprint several minor inaccuracies..." on page [10]; The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Farmer Giles of Ham, and [The] Lord of the Rings advertised to the half-title page verso; advertisement for LOTR printed 42 mm below the final line of text and with "about" misprint.
Sold including Buyer's Premium : $13,750
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1963. First American edition, later impressions. All signed by the author to the half-titles.
The Fellowship of the Ring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1963. First American edition, thirteenth impression. Signed by the author to the half-title. Octavo. 423, [1] pages. Three illustrations after Tolkien and two maps (printed in red and black) after Tolkien's son, Christopher: Map of the Shire (page 24), The Ring inscription (page 59), The Gate of Moria (page [319]), the inscription on Balin's Tomb (page 333), large folding map (mounted to rear free endpaper recto). Publisher's blue cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket after Walter Lorraine. Corners bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine pushed and worn, light soiling to head of spine and small stain to front board. Cream endpapers; bookplate to front free endpaper recto. Internally generally clean and tight, all edges trimmed; 3-inch closed tear to fold-out map closed with cellotape but not affecting image, minor intermittent foxing, text block edges toned with minor wear. Dust jacket unclipped ($5.95); heavy edgewear and losses, spine sunned, toned, rubbed and worn, irregular open tears to head and foot of spine panel and corners, spine panel heavily repaired with cellotape to recto and verso, tape toned. Very good book with fair dust jacket.
[Together with]: The Two Towers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1963. First American edition, tenth impression. Signed by the author to the half-title. Octavo. 352 pages. Illustrated with one large folding map after Christopher Tolkien, printed in red and black and mounted to rear free endpaper recto. Publisher's blue cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket after Walter Lorraine. Sprung, corners bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine pushed and worn. Cream endpapers; bookplate to front free endpaper recto. Internally clean, all edges trimmed; gutter cracked at half-title page, text block edges toned with minor wear. Dust jacket unclipped ($5.95); heavy edgewear and losses, spine sunned, toned, rubbed and worn, irregular open tears to head and foot of spine panel and corners, spine panel repaired with cellotape to recto.
[And]: The Return of the King. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1963. First American edition, tenth impression. Signed by the author to the half-title. Octavo. 416 pages. Illustrated with one large folding map after Christopher Tolkien, printed in red and black and mounted to rear free endpaper recto. Publisher's blue cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket after Walter Lorraine. Cream endpapers; plate to front free endpaper recto. Corners bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine pushed and worn. Internally clean, all edges trimmed; gutter cracked at half-title page, text block edges toned with minor wear. Dust jacket unclipped ($5.95); heavy edgewear and losses, spine sunned, toned, rubbed and worn, irregular open tears to head and foot of spine panel and corners, spine panel repaired with cellotape to recto and verso, tape toned. Very good book with good dust jacket.
Sold including Buyer's Premium : $30,000
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1954-1955. First editions, first impressions, with original illustrated dust jackets.
The Fellowship of the Ring. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1954. First edition, first impression, with signature mark "4" to page 49. Octavo. 423, [1, colophon). Three illustrations after Tolkien and two maps (printed in red and black) after Tolkien's son, Christopher: Map of the Shire (page 24), The Ring inscription (page 59), The Gate of Moria (page [319]), the inscription on Balin's Tomb (page 333), large folding map (mounted to rear free endpaper recto). Publisher's red cloth, spine stamped in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket. Head and foot of spine just pushed, gilt to spine somewhat darkened, 0.75-inch narrow stain to upper board. Cream endpapers; light pencil mark to front free endpaper recto. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed, top edge stained red; stain to top edge unevenly faded, minor text block edgewear. Dust jacket unclipped (21s); spine and top edges sunned, light stain to front panel at spine fold, 0.5-inch closed tear to head of spine, minor edgewear. Near fine book with near fine dust jacket.
[Together with]: The Two Towers. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1954. First edition, first impression, with signature mark "4" to page 49. Octavo. 352 pages. Illustrated with one large folding map after Christopher Tolkien, printed in red and black and mounted to rear free endpaper recto. Publisher's red cloth, spine stamped in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket. Head and foot of spine just pushed, gilt to spine somewhat darkened, minor soiling along joints and to the upper corner of the lower board. Cream endpapers; some offsetting. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed, top edge stained red; stain to top edge unevenly faded, minor text block edgewear. Dust jacket unclipped (21s); spine and top edges sunned, minor edgewear. Near fine book with near fine dust jacket.
[And]: The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1955. First edition, first impression, third state with signature mark "4" to page 49. Octavo. 416 pages. Illustrated with one large folding map after Christopher Tolkien, printed in red and black and mounted to rear free endpaper recto. Publisher's red cloth, spine stamped in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket. Head and foot of spine just pushed, gilt to spine somewhat darkened, minor soiling along joints and to the upper corner of the lower board. Cream endpapers; some offsetting, minor foxing. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed, top edge stained red; stain to top edge unevenly faded, minor text block edgewear, minor intermittent foxing chiefly to edges. Dust jacket unclipped (21s); spine and top edges sunned, minor edgewear, minor foxing to back panel. Near fine book with near fine dust jacket.
Sold including Buyer's Premium : $47,500
J. R. R. Tolkien. Tree and Leaf. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1965. First American edition, first printing. Signed the by author to the half-title. 16mo. 112 pages. Publisher's blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket. Minor edgewear, small abrasion to foot of spine. Blue-green endpapers; ink ownership to front free endpaper recto. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed, top edge stained orange; minor text block edgewear. Dust jacket unclipped ($4.00); minor edgewear, chipping to head and foot of spine and corners with some losses, 2-inch closed tear to front panel closed on verso with cellotape, somewhat toned to white portions but colors still bright, small dampstain to back panel at rear flap fold. Near fine book with very good dust jacket.
Sold including Buyer's Premium : $5,750
J. R. R. Tolkien. Farmer Giles of Ham. Edinburgh, New York, Toronto: Thomas Nelson & Sons, [1961]. Early American mixed issue with cancel title page, stated "fifth impression" to the front flap of the dust jacket. Signed by the author to the half-title. Octavo. 78, [2] pages. Illustrated with two plates and text illustrations by Pauline Diana Baynes. Publisher's pictorial pale-yellow textured paper with a dragon stamped in blue to the upper board (after text illustration on page 42), spine lettered in blue; original illustrated dust jacket by Pauline Diana Baynes. Foot of spine just pushed. Endpapers illustrated with a repeating pattern of the dragon in blue on white paper; bookplate and ink ownership to front free endpaper recto and ink gift inscription to verso. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed; pages 43-48 creased in lower corner but not affecting text. Dust jacket unclipped ($3.00), imprint at the foot of spine reads "Allen and Unwin / Houghton Mifflin; minor edgewear, spine sunned, light chipping to head and foot of spine and corners, minor soiling to back panel. Near fine book with near fine dust jacket.
Sold including Buyer's Premium : $3,875
J. R. R. Tolkien, E. V. Gordon [editors]. Sir Gawain & The Green Knight. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925. First edition. Octavo. 211, [1, colophon] pages; laid paper with watermark, errata slip at page [vii]. Illustrated with two black and white photographic plates with tissue guards. Publisher's pictorial green cloth, ruled in gilt and with axe ornament in gilt to the center of the upper board, spine stamped in gilt; original printed dust jacket. Corners rubbed, head and foot of spine pushed and somewhat worn. Cream endpapers; bookplate to front pastedown, small pencil notation to rear pastedown. Internally generally clean and tight, edges untrimmed; somewhat foxed, chiefly to front and back of text block and edges, text block edges toned with minor wear. Dust jacket without a price listed; minor edgewear, chipping to head and foot of spine and corners with some losses, creased at folds, somewhat foxed and soiled. Very good book with very good dust jacket.
Sold including Buyer's Premium : $4,500
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1963. First American edition, first printing stated on the copyright page. Signed by the author to the half-title page. Octavo. 63, [1] pages. Full-color illustrated boards, rounded spine lettered in black; original illustrated dust jacket by Pauline Baynes. Minor edgewear, head and foot of spine pushed. White endpapers; bookplate to front free endpaper recto. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed. Dust jacket price clipped; chipping to head and foot of spine and corners, spine sunned, minor edgewear. Very good book with very good dust jacket.
Sold including Buyer's Premium : $6,875
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit. Or, There and Back Again. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., no date [circa 1963]. Second American edition, presumed 15-17th impression. Signed by the author to the half-title. Lacking color frontispiece or red coloring to maps; with the original description of the revised edition beginning with "In this reprint several minor inaccuracies..." on page [10]; The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Farmer Giles of Ham, and [The] Lord of the Rings advertised to the half-title page verso; advertisement for LOTR printed 42 mm below the final line of text and with "about" misprint.
Sold including Buyer's Premium : $13,750
I left one book off accidentally, it is closing tomorrow June 10th it appears.
Dorothy Sayer, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, et al. Essays Presented to Charles Williams. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1947. First edition. Octavo. xvi, 145 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Charles Williams. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; original printed dust jacket. Cocked, head and foot of spine just pushed, corners just bumped. White endpapers; minor foxing, ink ownership and effaced pencil notation to front free endpaper recto. Internally generally clean and tight, all edges trimmed, somewhat foxed but chiefly contained to edges. Dust jacket unclipped (12 s 6d); moderate edgewear, chipping to head and foot of spine and corners with some losses, spine sunned, somewhat rubbed and soiled, small dampstain to spine. Very good book with good dust jacket.
Sold including Buyer's Premium : $562.50
Dorothy Sayer, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, et al. Essays Presented to Charles Williams. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1947. First edition. Octavo. xvi, 145 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Charles Williams. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; original printed dust jacket. Cocked, head and foot of spine just pushed, corners just bumped. White endpapers; minor foxing, ink ownership and effaced pencil notation to front free endpaper recto. Internally generally clean and tight, all edges trimmed, somewhat foxed but chiefly contained to edges. Dust jacket unclipped (12 s 6d); moderate edgewear, chipping to head and foot of spine and corners with some losses, spine sunned, somewhat rubbed and soiled, small dampstain to spine. Very good book with good dust jacket.
Sold including Buyer's Premium : $562.50
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