J.R.R. Tolkien

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On the runes used in The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien, 3 August 1943

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The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937

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Proofs for the Lord of the Rings trilogy

J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954

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The Fellowship of the Ring

J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954-1955

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TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973). The Hobbit. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1937.

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TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973). The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1937. 8° (190 x132mm). Frontispiece and eight text illustrations by the author, inserted half-tone plate by the author, integral advertisement leaf at end. (Very faint scattered spotting to endpapers, front prelims, half-title and title, text-block fractionally split at gathering L, but the whole sound and clean.) Original publisher's light green cloth stamped in dark blue, off-white endpapers printed with Thror's map and a map of Wilderland in red and black after drawings by the author, top edge stained light green (top fore-corner of upper cover faintly bumped, faint spotting and dust-soiling to top edge), ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUST-JACKET after a drawing by the author, with 'Dodgeson' corrected by hand on rear flap (price-clipped, edges frayed with associated small tears and chips to joints and top margin of rear cover, larger chipping to head and tail of spine, light soiling to spine, top edge and joints, faint spotting to flaps, fractionally more heavy to verso). Provenance: Theodore Bosanquet (neat ink ownership inscription to blank prelim). A FRESH COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. Currey p.476; Hammond A3a.

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TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973). Two autograph letters signed ('J.R.R. Tolkien') to Doris Sykes, Merton College, Oxford, and Headington, 28 January 1956 and n.d., 5½ pages, 4to (the first with minor markings in red pencil), envelope.

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J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

Letter to C. Gilmore. 3 July 1961

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TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973). A series of eight autograph letters signed and one typed letter signed ('J.R.R.T.', 'J.R.R. Tolkien', 'Ronald Tolkien', one unsigned) to Professor Przemyslaw Mroczkowski, one to Mrs Mrockzkowska, Bournemouth, Headington and n.p., 2 August 1946 - 10 April 1969, together 13 pages, 8vo and 4to, in autograph, and 2 pages, 4to, typescript, envelope; with a typescript of an essay by Mroczkowski on the New Robinson Chaucer with very extensive corrections in Tolkien's hand, commentary at the end on approx 2 pages, 4to; [with] two autograph letters signed to the Mroczkowskis by C.S. Lewis, 8 March and 13 May 1958, arranging a meeting and discussing a Polish translation of one of his books, 1½ pages, 8vo and 4to. Provenance: by descent from the recipients.

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TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973). Two autograph letters signed (‘JRRT’ and ‘JRR Tolkien’) to Jonathan Hepworth and to his father, [Oxford], 18 December 1963.

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TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973)

Autograph letter signed ('JRR Tolkien') to Michael Bell, [Oxford] 'c/o Messrs Allen and Unwin, 40 Museum Street', 14 January 1969.

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TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973)

One page, 252 x 202mm. Provenance: by descent from the recipient.'I congratulate you on managing the metre. C.S. Lewis tried and was totally defeated'. Sending thanks for remembering him again this year [at Christmas] and best wishes to his family.Lots 92 and 93 show Tolkien engaging with Michael Bell on the subject of poetry, praising the work produced by Bell and his wife. Writing two years later, he mentions again C.S. Lewis; the composition of verse was among the many shared pursuits enjoyed by the two friends.