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TOLKIEN

• J. R. Tolkein - ''The Lord of the
  J. R. Tolkein - ''The Lord of the Rings'' three volumes published by The Folio Society London 1977 (three green cloth bound volumes with slip case for same) and a quantity of Folio Society volumes various (most with slip cases- two boxes)
• (4) J.R.R. TOLKIEN THE HOBBIT &
  (4) J.R.R. TOLKIEN THE HOBBIT & LORD OF THE RINGS(lot of 4) Books: "The Hobbit or There and Back Again" and "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien, each with gilt embossed spine and cover, (one) with illustrations by the author, Houghton Mifflin Company, largest: approx 9.25"h, 7"w **Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida estate**
• J.R.R. TOLKIEN, LORD OF THE
  J.R.R. TOLKIEN, LORD OF THE RINGS, 1965 BOXED SET Ballantine Books, 1st authorized edition, 2nd printing of The Fellowship of the Ring and 1st printings of The Two Towers and The Return of the King, in green slipcase with worn $2.85 price sticker, 7.25"h x 2.75"w x 4.25"d (overall)
• J.R.R. TOLKIEN GROUPING OF
  J.R.R. TOLKIEN GROUPING OF BOOKSJohn Ronald Reuel (South Africa 1892-1973) The Lord of the Rings slip cased 3 books. Houghton Mifflin Company Boston Second Edition 1965. The Fellowship of the Ring 6th Printing. Lacking dust jacket, wear to spine. The Two Towers 5th Printing. Dust jacket worn and torn. The Return of the King 5th Printing. Dust jacket split and torn. Slip case worn and rubbed on all edges. The Silmarillion 1977. Fist American Edition. Price clipped and jacket torn.
• TOLKIEN J. R. Three first U.S.
  TOLKIEN J. R. Three first U.S. editions. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954. The Two Towers 1955. The Return of the King 1956. 8vo uniformly bound in gilt-lettered blue cloth. Color fold-out maps to all vols. Fading to cloth; ends bumped; evidence of bookplate removal from f.f.e.p. all vols.
• Tolkien (JRR) The Fellowship of the
  Tolkien (JRR) The Fellowship of the Ring, seventh impression October 1957; The Two Towers, fifth impression 1957; The Return of the King, third impression January 1957, all with dust wrappers
• TOLKIEN J. R. Four Easton Press
  TOLKIEN J. R. Four Easton Press editions uniformly bound in green gilt lettered morocco. Norwalk CT: Easton Press (1965-1966). Comprising The Return of the King (1965). Second edition. The Two Towers (1965). Second edition. The Fellowship of the Ring (1965). Second edition. The Hobbit (1966).
• TOLKIEN J. R. The Hobbit; or
  TOLKIEN J. R. The Hobbit; or There and Back Again. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1938. 8vo original blue-lettered cloth pictorial map endpapers. Illustrated with four color plates and nine black and white illustrations. First American edition. Light soiling to cloth; spine sunned; spine ends bumped and lightly frayed; bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown.
• EASTON PRESS (3) VOLS, J.R.R.
  EASTON PRESS (3) VOLS, J.R.R. TOLKIEN J. R. R. Tolkien, The Book of Lost Tales Parts One and Two; with, Unfinished Tales, The Easton Press Collector's Edition, 2003, 9"h x 6"w (each)
• THE HOBBIT ANNIVERSARY EDITION IN
  THE HOBBIT ANNIVERSARY EDITION IN SLIPCASEFeatured in this lot is this "Hobbit Anniversary Edition in Slipcase", 1966, J. R. R. Tolkien, publisher Houghton Mifflin Company. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. This "The Hobbit, or There And Back Again" anniversary edition features the original illustrations and design. This large work has the iconic original dustjacket design, as well as numerous colour illustrations. A rare and highly sought-after edition. This green textured leatherette bound illustrated gold and red gilt hardcover is in very fine condition, near new condition with runes and red highlights on front cover. Intact pages have marbled top, bottom and fore edges. Green slip case is in very nice condition, illustrated title label on cover. Measures in slip case 7"W x 9.5"L x 1.5"D approximately. Weight approximate 2lb
• 2 vols. Leather Bindings - English
  2 vols. Leather Bindings - English Literature: Kipling, Rudyard. Puck of Pook's Hill. London: Macmillan, 1906. 1st ed. 8vo, contemp. full double-fillet gilt-paneled polished red calf, richly gilt-paneled spine, inner dentelles gilt, a.e.g., dark green & maroon morocco spine label; covers moderately scuffed, by Bayntun. Frontis., full-page illus. Complete with 1/2 title & adverts. Internally clean but slightly musty. Livingston 209. * Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. Idylls of The King. London: Macmillan, 1929. 16mo, contemp. polished speckled burgundy calf with geometric scarlet calf cover inlays, on gilt-paneled & geometric covers, with gilt-floral cover designs, gilt-lettered & richly gilt-paneled spine, inner dentelles gilt, a.e.g., marbled endpapers; corners & spine ends slightly scuffed, by Riviere & Son. Internally clean.
• Sixteen various 20th century books,
  Sixteen various 20th century books, c/o ten out of eleven volumes of Will and Ariel Durant's The Story of Civilization (missing volume 2 only), The Lessons of History (also by the Durants), the three books of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway (New York, 1970; not a book club edition), and The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (1966).
• [Group of Five Artist-Illustrated
  [Group of Five Artist-Illustrated Books] including Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur 1909 E.P. Dutton & Co. NY second edition illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley; Oscar Wilde Salome 1907 John Lane with 8 illustrations by Beardsley intro. by R. Ross; Clement Moore The Night Before Christmas Lippincott Phila. c. 1935 illustrated by Arthur Rackham; De la Motte Fouque Undine 1909 Heinemann London and Doubleday NY illustrated by Arthur Rackham full leather; and Oscar Wilde The Happy Prince and Other Tales 1920 London illustrated by Charles Robinson full leather.
• Lord of the Rings Character Mug
  Lord of the Rings Character Mug Star Trek Deep Space Nine Character Mug and Disney The Lion King Character Mug all Boxed by Applause (3)
• Lord of the Rings Duet Original
  Lord of the Rings Duet Original Filmcells Limited Edition The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers
• SELECTION OF POPULAR LITERATURE
  SELECTION OF POPULAR LITERATURE Including Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, and Thomas H. Huxley, about 50 volumes.
• 1 vol. Tolkien, J.R.R. The
  1 vol. Tolkien, J.R.R. The Fellowship of The Ring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954. First American edition. 8vo, orig. gilt-lettered blue cloth; light wear, small area of back cover slightly affected by damp & slightly scuffed, d/j (minor edge wear, head of spine slightly chipped - no loss of printing, top of front joint rubbed - minor loss of design element, crescent-shaped dampstain to fore-edge portion of the bottom half of the back panel). Occasional minor staining to back bottom fore-edge, otherwise internally clean. Fold. map. Review copy with Houghton Mifflin card inserted. The first volume in The Lord of The Rings trilogy. ,200-
• A Collection of Twenty-Three
  A Collection of Twenty-Three Books of Poetry comprising works by Dante Keats Poe Longfellow Chaucer Byron Wadsworth and Moore together with Homer's Iliad and Odyssey works by Lord Alfred Tennyson a book of English love songs and a collection of popular readings.
• 1 vol. (Kelmscott Press.)
  1 vol. (Kelmscott Press.) Tennyson, (Alfred) Lord. Maud. Upper Mall, Hammersmith, 1893. 1/500. 8vo, orig. limp vellum, gilt-lettered spine; spine & edges a little darkened, other minor spotting, slightly warped, ties defective.
• Literature, A collection of works
  Literature, A collection of works to include Beauclerk (Helen), The Green Lacquer Pavilion, Collins, 1926, Edmund Dulac illus, 12mo, original cloth gilt, engraved frontis; Kent (Charles), The Works of Charles Lamb, London: Routledge and Sons, 12mo, quarter calf with marbled boards and gilt tooling on raised bands to spine; Ragozin (Zenaide A), Siegfried The Hero of the North and Beowulf The Hero of the Anglo-Saxons, New York and London: G. P. Putnam, 1898, 12mo, green calf with gilt tooling and
• A reconstituted stone figure of
  A reconstituted stone figure of an elf sitting on a toadstool 67cm (26.25") high
• Pollard, (Alfred W) The Romance
  Pollard, (Alfred W) The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, Macmillan, London, 1917, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, together with Bedier (Joseph), The Romance of Tristram and Iseult, Heinemann, London (2)
• Books. Twelves shelves of general
  Books. Twelves shelves of general stock, including Rackham (Arthur, illustraor), The Ingoldsby Legends, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1930, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, Fishe (John), The American Revolution, two-volume set, London: Macmillan and Co., 1891, ex-library copies, labelled and stamped, original cloth, 8vo, [travel] Lane (Edward William), An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, 1890, original cloth, 8vo, [binding] Gissing (George), By the Ionian Sea, 1901, contemporary black calf gilt prize binding, 4to, Hooley (Teresa), Selected Poems, first edition, 1947, dj, hb, 8vo, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, BCA edition, 1971, dj, hb, 8vo, Lord Granby's Trout, 1898, original cloth, 8vo, two Badminton Library Shooting volumes, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, Rowntree (B. Seebohm), Poverty: A Study of Town Life, 4th edition, 1902, cloth, 8vo, Savage on Rural Housing, miscellaneous volumes from Joseph Conrad's Uniform Edition, further literature, other fiction and non-fiction, principally hardback, some vintage paperbacks, mixed sizes
• THE J.R.R TOLKIEN ANNUAL CALENDAR -
  THE J.R.R TOLKIEN ANNUAL CALENDAR - 23 YEARS WORTH These calendars were well known for their amazing and beautiful science-fantasy art imagined from the writings of Tolkien. The years are: (every year from 1981-2004 except 1983). 1981,1982,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990, 1991, 1992,1993,1994,1995 (large),1996 (large), 1997, 1998,1999,2000.2001,2002,2003,2004
• A.A. MILNE, "TOAD OF TOAD HALL",
  A.A. MILNE, "TOAD OF TOAD HALL", HARDCOVER, 1957 Alan Alexander Milne (English 188 2-1956), "Toad of Toad Hall: A Play From Kenneth Grahame's Book", published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1957, octavo, green covered boards with black lettering to spine, with dust jacket. Approximate dimensions: h. 8", w. 5.75", d. 0.75".
• T.E. Lawrence - Two volumes -
  T.E. Lawrence - Two volumes - ''Seven Pillars of Wisdom'' first edition published by Doubleday Doran & Company Inc New York 1935 (one brown cloth bound volume - worn) and ''The Mint'' limited first edition published by Jonathan Cape London 1955 No. 288 of 1000 (one blue cloth bound volume with leather spine and slip case for same)
• Joseph Conrad, (Polish/British,
  Joseph Conrad, (Polish/British, 1857-1924) TALES OF UNREST TALES OF UNREST
• “Siegfried & The Twilight of the
  “Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods” illustrated and signed by Arthur Rackham, limited edition 607/1150, published by Doubleday, Page & Co. NY and William Heinmann Ltd. London, 1911, in original gilt stamped vellum binding. Condition: some pages with foxing and toning, binding with wear CT Transfer Fee $10
• Arthur Szyk (Polish/American,
  Arthur Szyk (Polish/American, 1894-1951) Original illustration for Canterbury Tales "The Knight". Gouache on heavy paper, signed, dated N.Y. 45, at the lower right, the sight size approx. 6-3/4" x 3-7/8", matted and framed under glass overall approx. 14-3/8" x 11". Under the matting at the left is a partial inscription in ink, the right have erased, "Canterbury T*** 'The Knigh*'".
• 1 vol. Toland, John. A Critical
  1 vol. Toland, John. A Critical History of The Celtic Religion and Learning: Containing an Account of The Druids. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, n.d. [ca. 1810]. 8vo, old cloth-backed bds.; worn, hinges tender. Early owner's signature at head of title page. Light to moderate foxing. Untrimmed. NUC NT0254394, describing a [174?] printing with the same imprint & pagination as NUC NT0254396 [181?] Descriptions provided in both printed and on-line catalogue formats do not include condition reports. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Interested bidders are strongly encouraged to request a condition report on any lots upon which they intend to bid, prior to placing a bid. All transactions are governed by Freeman''s Conditions of Sale.
• A collection of Pendelfin figures
  A collection of Pendelfin figures comprising Tennyson Tammy Casanova Wordsworth Jim Lad Scrumpy Rambler Charlotte Picnic Midge Oliver Robert Snuggles Awake Barrow Boy Angelo Blossom Rosa Pooch Wakey Birdie Duffy Newboy Crocker Wakey and Boswell (25)
• SALVADOR DALI (FRANCE/SPAIN,
  SALVADOR DALI (FRANCE/SPAIN, 1904-1989) "Wilford of Ivanhoe" (from Ivanhoe), 1977, color lithograph on Arches, pencil signed, numbered 206/450, depicting the knight on horseback, bearing a red banner, in gilt mitered box frame, matted and glazed, OS: 35 1/4" x 27 3/4", image size: 23" x 18". Fine condition, not examined out of frame. Includes 1979 COA from "Original Fine Art, Ltd.", at an original price of $900.
• GUSTAV SPANGENBERG (GERMANY,
  GUSTAV SPANGENBERG (GERMANY, 1828-1891) "Sol, Luna y Talia" (Fairy tale that inspired "Sleeping Beauty"); oil on canvas, signed lower left, dated 1863, depicting the moment that the witch prepares to prick her victim's finger with a spindle inside the stone castle room, a brazier at their feet. Housed in a leafy handcarved watergilt frame, OS: 34" x 27", SS: 30" x 22", cleaned and relined.
• 2 THE LORD OF THE RINGS 1978 ONE
  2 THE LORD OF THE RINGS 1978 ONE SHEET POSTERS Two one sheet movie posters of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. A Saul Zaentz production. A Ralph Backshi film. #780108
• Children's Fantasy Books. Rowling
  Children's Fantasy Books. Rowling (J.K.), Harry Potter, seven-volume set, including The Philosopher's Stone, first edition, eighteenth impression, 1997, The Chamber of Secrets, first edition, eighteenth impression, 1998, The Prisoner of Azkaban, 1999, first edition, nineteenth impression, etc., all Bloomsbury imprints, original pictorial dustjackets over pictorial boards, 8vo, (7)
• 2 vols. Skene, William F. The Four
  2 vols. Skene, William F. The Four Ancient Books of Wales, Containing The Cymric Poems Attributed to The Bards of The Sixth Century. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1868. First edition. 8vo, orig. green cloth, gilt-lettered & ruled spines, t.e.g.; light wear, occasionally slightly scuffed. Frontis., fold. map. Sound, attractive set.