A friend of mine shared these with me this morning. I told him I would post later tonight, but I could not wait. How he finds these treasures I will never know. His passion and excitement for books, art and life is like nothing I have ever encountered. It is a pleasure every time we speak and I always look fwd to the next.
These will be added to the Collector's Gallery.
Name: The Hobbit
Author J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher: Houghton and Mifflin
Year: 1937/1938.
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
State: 1st Edition.
Owner: A. L. Smith.
Name: The Fellowship of the Ring
Author J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher: Allen and Unwin.
Year: 1968
State: Signed
Owner: A. L. Smith.
Name: The Fellowship of the Ring
Author J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher: Allen and Unwin
Year: 1953
Edition: Uncorrected Proof with Paper Dust Jacket.
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
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This set has the original slip case, hardly any survived. There were only three complete sets signed, this was gifted to the artist Pauline Baynes, who was responsible for the artwork on the slip case. The last image is a solander case which mimics the slip case and protects everything.