Bloomsbury Sale #557
Sale Date - February 2, 2006
212. | Tolkien (J.R.R.) and E.V.Gordon, editors . Sir Gawain & The Green Knight, first edition , frontispiece, neat ownership inscription on front free endpaper, original cloth, gilt, very slightly rubbed and faded at spine, otherwise a very good copy, 8vo, Oxford, 1925. est. £100 – £150 Sold for £100 |
211. | Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., reprint, names and addresses tippexed out on front free endpapers, dust-jackets price clipped, 1978; Unfinished Tales, edited by Christopher Tolkien, reprint, 1982, original cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo (4) est. £60 – £80 Unsold |
210. | Tolkien (J.R.R.) Tree and Leaf, 1964; Unfinished Tales, jacket spine sunned, 1980; The Treason of Isengard, 1989, first editions , original cloth or boards ; and 9 others by the same, 8vo (12) est. £100 – £150 Unsold |
209. | Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, dust-jacket, price-clipped, chipped at corners and head of spine, 1962; Smith of Wootton Major, rubbed at edges, 1967, first editions , illustrations by Pauline Baynes, original pictorial boards ; and an ex-library copy of Farmer Giles of Ham without jacket, 8vo & 12mo (3) est. £150 – £200 Unsold |
208. | Tolkien (J.R.R.) [Lord of the Rings], 3 vol., Fellowship of the Ring second impression, other 2 vol. first editions , folding map at end of each vol., original cloth, a few marks, 8vo, 1954-55. est. £200 – £300 Sold for £650 |
207. | Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, reprint, colour frontispiece, illustrations by the author, 13pp. with tape repairs to inner margins, browned, upper hinge split, original decorated cloth, rubbed, corners bumped, lower joint broken, 8vo, 1942. est. £80 – £120 Sold for £260 |
206. | Tolkien (J.R.R.) - Onions (C.T.) A Shakespeare Glossary, second edition, revised, label on front pastedown: “From the Library of J.R.R. Tolkien”, original cloth, gilt, 8vo, 1941. est. £60 – £80 Sold for £120 |
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