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TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)
Farmer Giles of Ham, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, George Allen and Unwin, 1949

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TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)

Farmer Giles of Ham, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on reverse of frontispiece "Margaret from Ronald Tolkien./ J.R.R. Tolkien. 1949", illustrations, shelf numbers in ink and pencil on half-title, slight foxing to title-page and at end, publisher's pictorial pale orange cloth, a little faded and soiled towards top edges, shelf mark on spine, dust-jacket torn with significant loss at corners and top of spine (affecting title), with shelf number in ink at foot, 8vo, George Allen and Unwin, 1949

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PRESENTATION COPY FROM TOLKIEN TO HIS FRIEND, THE BENEDICTIONE NUN MARGARET WISEMAN AT OULTON ABBEY - INSCRIBED WITH HIS RARER "RONALD TOLKIEN" SIGNATURE AS WELL AS THE USUAL "J.R.R. TOLKIEN".

Provenance: Margaret Wiseman, inscription from Tolkien dated 1949; Oulton Abbey, bookplate (dated 1977 in ink).

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