Bonhams Auction FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS Wednesday 9 November
10 Oct, 2016
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2016-10-10 5:06:22 PM UTC
2016-10-10 5:06:22 PM UTC
LOT 219 "TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) - The Hobbit or There and Back Again... Illustrated by the Author, FIRST EDITION, second impression, 5 plates (4 colour), illustrations (some full-page), map endpapers printed in red and black, publisher's green cloth, dust-jacket (unclipped, some loss mostly at extremities, a few old paper repairs), 8vo, George Allen & Unwin, 1937"
Sold for £2,375 inc. premium
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23577/lot/219/
LOT 220 "TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in black ink on the half-title, maps, publisher's pictorial wrappers designed by Pauline Baynes, some creasing, one corner torn away, 8vo, George Allen & Unwin, [1969]"
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23577/lot/220/
Sold for £2,250 inc. premium
Sold for £2,375 inc. premium
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23577/lot/219/
LOT 220 "TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in black ink on the half-title, maps, publisher's pictorial wrappers designed by Pauline Baynes, some creasing, one corner torn away, 8vo, George Allen & Unwin, [1969]"
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23577/lot/220/
Sold for £2,250 inc. premium
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