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London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967 Second impressions of the second edition, 3 volumes uniform in red cloth with dust jackets with the Ring and Elvish script about the Eye of Sauron, all are price clipped and with rubbed joints and fore edge folds, some splitting to ends of joints etc., slightly rubbed or chipped at ends of spines, Vol 1 has a short tear to the front bottom corner, a name and date to fep, and a pasted down photo of Tolkien taken from a newspaper, there is a tape stain to the paste down, Vol 3 has small name and date to the fep, otherwise they are a tidy set with just some expected handling wear and dust soiling, obviously they have been read a few times but no faults noted, each vol has a folding map at the rear, Revised Second Edition (2 kg rate, double standard shipping charge) . Second Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. Illus. by J R R Tolkien. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
The Peoples of Middle-Earth (The History of Middle-Earth Vol.XII) by Tolkien, J.R.R. (ed by Christopher Tolkien) - 1996
by Tolkien, J.R.R. (ed by Christopher Tolkien)
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The Peoples of Middle-Earth (The History of Middle-Earth Vol.XII)
by Tolkien, J.R.R. (ed by Christopher Tolkien)
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London: HarperCollinsPublishers (Harper Collins) 1996 First Edition, First Impression 8vo xiv,482pp ISBN 0-261-10337-7, 1996 Ex-Library, Near Fine original dark blue cloth, corners very slightly bumped, tape stains to boards, edges lightly tanned as is common with this edition, minimal library markings, specifically small piece of magnetic tape to front pastedown, small stamp to ffep, small label attached to rear end-paper, otherwise internally Fine throughout, in Near Fine intact complete Dust Wrapper. A very attractive copy of the original HarperCollins First Edition, of which there was only one print-run, despite being ex-library. For years, rumors circulated that HarperCollins pulped part of the print-run for this title. However, Neil Holford at TolkienBooks. net has the following information: according to David Brawn at HarperCollins, "2,525 copies were printed for the trade, plus 1,565 for BCA, all in the same run. Unlike many book club editions of books at that time, for this series the books always came from the same print run so there would often have been no discernible difference between them in terms of quality. However, BCA sold their copies very quickly and then bought 500 copies from the trade run, rapidly shortening the shelf life of the edition."
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The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King)
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Collectanea Adagiorum Veterum.
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Hardcover. Fine. 4to. Bound in 20th-century 1/4-vellum over marbled boards. Strasbourg: Matthias Schürer, July 1510. Second Strasbourg edition of Erasmus heavily annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs. Printed in Roman and Greek types. This is the original version, containing 818 adages, which is considerably shorter than the later expanded versions published under the title Adagiorum chiliades. (Adams E-420; Bezzel, Erasmusdrucke, 50; Van der Haeghen, Bibliotheca Erasmiana, p.25-6; Bibl. Belgica II, 276: no. E.61; Muller, Strasbourg II, p. 179, no. 45.) The Adagia could only have been possible in the new world of European education, in which careful attention to a broader range of classical texts produced a much fuller picture of the literature of antiquity. Its impact has been long lasting. Such popular expressions such as one step at a time, between a rock and a hard place, break the ice, an iron in the fire, looking a gift horse in the mouth, and many other sayings can trace their…
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The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, Book 7)
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The Bodley Head, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples) : The Last Battle. London : The Bodley Head, 1956. First impression. Size is octavo (8vo), 7.75"/20cm. Bound in publisher's blue cloth over boards, bright silver lettering imprinted on spine. DJ in light green w/black and white lettering (front) or white with black lettering (back); front also features a Pauline Baynes illustration in blue and brown of Lucy conferring with faun Tumnus. Blank endpapers/flyleaves; 184 numbered pp. Many Baynes illustrations in b&w (none in color)scattered through text.Condition notes: A highly collectible copy of this Narnia classic, seventh and last in the series (in Lewis' original, published, order). This is the rare 1956 British First edition/First Impression by The Bodley Head. Included is the original dustjacket -- not a reproduction, not price-clipped. Binding is slightly cocked off square,solid. DJ shows tanning and foxing from age both interior and exterior(see photos), a few chips and…
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Ka Hopita: a i 'ole, I Laila a Ho'i Hou mai: The Hobbit (Hawaiian Edition)
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Ka Hopita: a i 'ole, I Laila a Ho'i Hou mai: Hawaiian language translation of The Hobbit. Dundee: Evertype, 2019. Softcover. Includes translations of all the original drawings and maps by the author. Collectors will note the original cover artwork has been translated as well with the runes around the edge to read Hawaiian style. Hawai'i language translation by R. Keao NeSmith. Unuhi 'ia ma ka 'olelo Hawai'i e R. Keao NeSmith.Great Gift for language students and Tolkien collectors.
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Fifty New Poems For Children
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Basil Blackwell, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Various : Fifty New Poems For Children. Oxford : Basil Blackwell, [1922]. First edition. 7 5/8"/20cm h. Bound in publisher's black paper boards; b&w pictorial paper pastedown to front board. Plain white endpapers. 63 numbered pp plus one wo numbers following. By my count actually fifty-two; index. Condition notes: boards heavily worn with some sunning, considerable tanning and staining to white front pastedown; spine pastedown removed (remnants still clinging); boards bent forward at spine creating a slightly curled appearance; joint worn through for one-plus inches, revealing internal fabric. Corners worn and bumped. Uncut edges show darkening. Modest foxing to endpapers; discreet gift inscription to front flyleaf; both pastedowns show ridging where spine/boards are bent; front flyleaf has remains of a since-removed sticker. Hinge beginning to separate pp 32-33. Pages show varying but generally minor tanning and staining throughout; other than gift…
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ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Excluding Drama. The completeion of The Clark Lectures,Trinity College,Cambridge 1944.Volume three in the Oxford History of English Literature series.Edited by F.P.Wilson and Bonamy Dobree
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Oxford, at the Clarendon Press. London.,1945. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. viii,696pp. Some light foxing to the blank endpapers otherwise near fine copy in publishers dark blue cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt, with the gilt publishers emblem at the bottom of the spine. In the original dustwrapper lettered in light blue and brown. Overall a near fine bright clean copy.:
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Hardcover. Fine. 4to. Bound in 20th-century 1/4-vellum over marbled boards. Strasbourg: Matthias Schürer, July 1510. Second Strasbourg edition of Erasmus heavily annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs. Printed in Roman and Greek types. This is the original version, containing 818 adages, which is considerably shorter than the later expanded versions published under the title Adagiorum chiliades. (Adams E-420; Bezzel, Erasmusdrucke, 50; Van der Haeghen, Bibliotheca Erasmiana, p.25-6; Bibl. Belgica II, 276: no. E.61; Muller, Strasbourg II, p. 179, no. 45.) The Adagia could only have been possible in the new world of European education, in which careful attention to a broader range of classical texts produced a much fuller picture of the literature of antiquity. Its impact has been long lasting. Such popular expressions such as one step at a time, between a rock and a hard place, break the ice, an iron in the fire, looking a gift horse in the mouth, and many other sayings can trace their…
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Ka Hopita: a i 'ole, I Laila a Ho'i Hou mai: The Hobbit (Hawaiian Edition)
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Ka Hopita: a i 'ole, I Laila a Ho'i Hou mai: Hawaiian language translation of The Hobbit. Dundee: Evertype, 2019. Softcover. Includes translations of all the original drawings and maps by the author. Collectors will note the original cover artwork has been translated as well with the runes around the edge to read Hawaiian style. Hawai'i language translation by R. Keao NeSmith. Unuhi 'ia ma ka 'olelo Hawai'i e R. Keao NeSmith.Great Gift for language students and Tolkien collectors.
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Basil Blackwell, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Various : Fifty New Poems For Children. Oxford : Basil Blackwell, [1922]. First edition. 7 5/8"/20cm h. Bound in publisher's black paper boards; b&w pictorial paper pastedown to front board. Plain white endpapers. 63 numbered pp plus one wo numbers following. By my count actually fifty-two; index. Condition notes: boards heavily worn with some sunning, considerable tanning and staining to white front pastedown; spine pastedown removed (remnants still clinging); boards bent forward at spine creating a slightly curled appearance; joint worn through for one-plus inches, revealing internal fabric. Corners worn and bumped. Uncut edges show darkening. Modest foxing to endpapers; discreet gift inscription to front flyleaf; both pastedowns show ridging where spine/boards are bent; front flyleaf has remains of a since-removed sticker. Hinge beginning to separate pp 32-33. Pages show varying but generally minor tanning and staining throughout; other than gift…
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The Fall of Arthur De Luxe Edition
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Collectible Fine Deluxe Slipcase Edition First Edition With a Colour Frontispiece showing a facsimile page from Prof. Tolkien's original color manuscript. Terrific written in alliterative verse it has the feel of a cross between the Lord of the Rings and Alliterative Death of Arthur. Comes with original advertising and attached ribbon marker. Handsome binding too. See five of our Three Geese in Flight Scans.
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The Peoples of Middle Earth: the History of Middle Earth, Volume 12
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Harper Collins Publishing, 1996. 1. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with just minor shelfwear and a couple small edge-tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and text pages are all clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.5 lbs; Blue-green dust jacket with title in gold and white lettering; 1996, Harper Collins Publishing; 480 pages; "The Peoples of Middle Earth: the History of Middle Earth, Volume 12," by J. R. R. Tolkien.
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The Peoples of Middle-Earth
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1996. Hardback. Good. 1st Edition / 1st Printing. There are some light scuffs to the edges and corners of the cover and some light marks to the page edges but otherwise in very good condition with pages crisp and clean.
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The Peoples of Middle Earth: the History of Middle Earth, Volume 12
by edited by Christopher Tolkien] J. R. R. [ Tolkien
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Harper Collins Publishing, 1996. 1. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good Minus dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is lightly shelfworn and edgeworn with a few light handling-marks, otherwise is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; All three textblock sides are unblemished; Pages are yellowing from age, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.5 lbs; Blue-green dust jacket with title in gold and white lettering; 1996, Harper Collins Publishing; 480 pages; "The Peoples of Middle Earth: the History of Middle Earth, Volume 12," by edited by Christopher Tolkien] J. R. R. [ Tolkien.
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Ka Hopita: a i 'ole, I Laila a Ho'i Hou mai: The Hobbit (Hawaiian Edition)
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Ka Hopita: a i 'ole, I Laila a Ho'i Hou mai: Hawaiian language translation of The Hobbit. Dundee: Evertype, 2019. Softcover. Includes translations of all the original drawings and maps by the author. Collectors will note the original cover artwork has been translated as well with the runes around the edge to read Hawaiian style. Hawai'i language translation by R. Keao NeSmith. Unuhi 'ia ma ka 'olelo Hawai'i e R. Keao NeSmith.Great Gift for language students and Tolkien collectors.
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Descent into Hell
by Williams, Charles
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London : Faber & Faber Ltd, 1949; 1937. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. VG+ in Good+ dw. 8vo, 224pp, red cloth with spine stamped in gold, printed dustwrapper. A clean copy of the 1949 Faber & Faber edition of a classic metaphysical novel by Charles Williams, originally published in 1937. Treats of occult subjects with unusual insight. A 1951 presentation inscription is written on front flyleaf (no other markings), light shadowing to endpapers. Dustwrapper is price-clipped and has some chipping and wear.
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The Fall of Arthur De Luxe Edition
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Collectible Fine Deluxe Slipcase Edition First Edition With a Colour Frontispiece showing a facsimile page from Prof. Tolkien's original color manuscript. Terrific written in alliterative verse it has the feel of a cross between the Lord of the Rings and Alliterative Death of Arthur. Comes with original advertising and attached ribbon marker. Handsome binding too. See five of our Three Geese in Flight Scans.
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ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Excluding Drama. The completeion of The Clark Lectures,Trinity College,Cambridge 1944.Volume three in the Oxford History of English Literature series.Edited by F.P.Wilson and Bonamy Dobree
by LEWIS. C. S.;
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Oxford, at the Clarendon Press. London.,1945. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. viii,696pp. Some light foxing to the blank endpapers otherwise near fine copy in publishers dark blue cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt, with the gilt publishers emblem at the bottom of the spine. In the original dustwrapper lettered in light blue and brown. Overall a near fine bright clean copy.:
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The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King)
by TOLKIEN J R R
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London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967 Second impressions of the second edition, 3 volumes uniform in red cloth with dust jackets with the Ring and Elvish script about the Eye of Sauron, all are price clipped and with rubbed joints and fore edge folds, some splitting to ends of joints etc., slightly rubbed or chipped at ends of spines, Vol 1 has a short tear to the front bottom corner, a name and date to fep, and a pasted down photo of Tolkien taken from a newspaper, there is a tape stain to the paste down, Vol 3 has small name and date to the fep, otherwise they are a tidy set with just some expected handling wear and dust soiling, obviously they have been read a few times but no faults noted, each vol has a folding map at the rear, Revised Second Edition (2 kg rate, double standard shipping charge) . Second Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. Illus. by J R R Tolkien. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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Fifty New Poems For Children
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Basil Blackwell, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Various : Fifty New Poems For Children. Oxford : Basil Blackwell, [1922]. First edition. 7 5/8"/20cm h. Bound in publisher's black paper boards; b&w pictorial paper pastedown to front board. Plain white endpapers. 63 numbered pp plus one wo numbers following. By my count actually fifty-two; index. Condition notes: boards heavily worn with some sunning, considerable tanning and staining to white front pastedown; spine pastedown removed (remnants still clinging); boards bent forward at spine creating a slightly curled appearance; joint worn through for one-plus inches, revealing internal fabric. Corners worn and bumped. Uncut edges show darkening. Modest foxing to endpapers; discreet gift inscription to front flyleaf; both pastedowns show ridging where spine/boards are bent; front flyleaf has remains of a since-removed sticker. Hinge beginning to separate pp 32-33. Pages show varying but generally minor tanning and staining throughout; other than gift…
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The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
by Tolkien, J.R.R
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London: Allen & Unwin, 1955. Third Impression. Cloth. Good plus/Lacking dust jacket. Tolkien, J.R.R. : The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings. London : George Allen and Unwin, Ltd, 1955. First edition/3rd printing. Lacks dustjacket. Size is octavo (8vo), 8.875"/22.3cm h. Bound in publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Topstained red. Plain white endpapers. 352 numbered pp. Foldout map in black and red ink, once tipped in to recto rfep has been neatly detached and is included. Hammond/Anderson A.5.ii; information on the printing history of this copy is taken from Hammond and Anderson, "J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography", and supplemental information on tolkienbooks.net. While the copyright page states "Second Impression", tolkienbooks.net documents that Third Impressions differ from Second Impression copies only in lacking the year (1955) on the title page; this copy, then, lacking the year is a Third Impression. Condition notes: A good-plus, worn but sound…
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The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, Book 7)
by Lewis, C. S
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The Bodley Head, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples) : The Last Battle. London : The Bodley Head, 1956. First impression. Size is octavo (8vo), 7.75"/20cm. Bound in publisher's blue cloth over boards, bright silver lettering imprinted on spine. DJ in light green w/black and white lettering (front) or white with black lettering (back); front also features a Pauline Baynes illustration in blue and brown of Lucy conferring with faun Tumnus. Blank endpapers/flyleaves; 184 numbered pp. Many Baynes illustrations in b&w (none in color)scattered through text.Condition notes: A highly collectible copy of this Narnia classic, seventh and last in the series (in Lewis' original, published, order). This is the rare 1956 British First edition/First Impression by The Bodley Head. Included is the original dustjacket -- not a reproduction, not price-clipped. Binding is slightly cocked off square,solid. DJ shows tanning and foxing from age both interior and exterior(see photos), a few chips and…
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS. The Fellowship of the Ring. - The Two Towers. - The Return of the King
by TOLKIEN. J. R. R
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George Allen & Unwin. London. 1954 and 1955. FIRST EDITION, first printings of Volumes 2 and 3. The 1st volume is 1954 2nd impression, printed in a run of only 2500 copies, which is actually the first revised version of the text, due the printers dispersing the type after the first impression and having to completely reset it for this printing. Including Tolkien's corrections to the text and the Elvish title page inscription, this version became the standard text for many years to follow. THREE VOLUMES. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.5 inches). A bright and clean set throughout. Fold out map of Middle earth at the end of each volume. The set has been finely bound in recent full red morocco leather. Spines with raised bands, the compartments lettered, ruled and decorated in gilt. Decorative gilt roll border on the boards. All edges gilt. Plain magnolia endpapers. The three volumes are housed in a burgundy cloth covered slipcase. ------ A fine and attractive set with the earliest reprint of the first book and first…
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Collectanea Adagiorum Veterum.
by ERASMUS
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Hardcover. Fine. 4to. Bound in 20th-century 1/4-vellum over marbled boards. Strasbourg: Matthias Schürer, July 1510. Second Strasbourg edition of Erasmus heavily annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs. Printed in Roman and Greek types. This is the original version, containing 818 adages, which is considerably shorter than the later expanded versions published under the title Adagiorum chiliades. (Adams E-420; Bezzel, Erasmusdrucke, 50; Van der Haeghen, Bibliotheca Erasmiana, p.25-6; Bibl. Belgica II, 276: no. E.61; Muller, Strasbourg II, p. 179, no. 45.) The Adagia could only have been possible in the new world of European education, in which careful attention to a broader range of classical texts produced a much fuller picture of the literature of antiquity. Its impact has been long lasting. Such popular expressions such as one step at a time, between a rock and a hard place, break the ice, an iron in the fire, looking a gift horse in the mouth, and many other sayings can trace their…
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