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14th November 2023 London
Lot 79 The Hobbit or There and Back Again, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, George Allen & Unwin, (1937)
“La Última Vista de Hobbiton”
The Hobbit or There and Back Again, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, frontispiece and 9 plates or illustrations (all but one full-page), map endpapers (printed in red and black) by the author, a few corners turned, paper shelf mark and a few remnants of label inside upper cover, ink numeral ("221") on front free endpaper, publisher's green cloth, lettered and decorated in dark blue, top edge light green, worn at extremities of spine and corners, light spotting, upper hinge starting [Hammond A3(a)], 8vo, George Allen & Unwin, (1937) Footnotes
ONE OF ONLY 1500 COPIES OF THE VERY FIRST EDITION OF THE HOBBIT, published on the 21 September 1937. A second issue appeared in December (see following lot).
Provenance: Casterton School, Kirby, stamp on half-title, bookplate on front free endpaper.
Estimate GBP 3,000 - 5,000 Sold for GBP 10,880 inc. premium
Lot 80 The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, George Allen and Unwin, (1954-1955)
Enero
(The Lord of the Rings) The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King, together 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, 'The Return of the King' with signature mark "4" and sagging text on p.49, and "Men" (no gap) on p.281, folding map printed in red and black at rear of each volume, full crimson morocco gilt by the Chelsea Bindery, sides with single gilt rule border, the upper covers with gilt tooled design reflecting the original jacket design, spines gilt with raised bands and small motif in one compartment, morocco turn-ins, g.e., housed in single morocco-edged slipcase, 8vo, George Allen and Unwin, (1954-1955) Footnotes
A FINELY BOUND SET OF FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST IMPRESSIONS.
Estimate GBP 7,000 - 10,000 Sold for GBP 16,640 inc. premium
ORIGINAL ARTWORK - PAULINE BAYNES BAYNES (PAULINE) The Walrus and the Carpenter, from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, pen, watercolour and gouche on George Rowley & Co. artist's pasteboard, printer's pencil markings in margins (including "pp.44-45"), mounted, framed and glazed, 245 x 320mm., boards 270 x 380mm., [c.1957] Footnotes
Pauline Baynes (1922–2008), best known for her illustrations to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis' Narnia series, illustrated an edition of Dodgson/Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Blackie, 1957, in which this illustration was used.
Estimate GBP 600 - 800 Sold for GBP 1,280 including fees
The Hobbit or There and Back Again, FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, half-title, 13 plates and illustrations (4 colour), advertisement leaf at end, map endpapers by the author printed in red and black, light spotting, pp.15/16 loose, one corner of front free endpaper with short tear, publisher's pictorial light green cloth, upper edge green, soiled, spine worn at extremities and short tear at each joint, light pencil marks on lower cover [cf. Hammond A3(a) and p.13], 8vo, George Allen & Unwin, [1937] Footnotes
The second impression dated 1937, but actually published in January 1938, saw the first appearance of four additional colour illustrations by Tolkien. Some 2300 copies were printed, although 423 unbound copies were destroyed at the binders during the Blitz in 1940.
Kns- Lurtz, Ringwraith, Legolas, Boromir
Estimate GBP 1,000 - 2,000 Sold for GBP 2,048 including fees
The Pauline Baynes picture was actually published in 1971, in All Along Down Along: A Book of Stories in Verse, compiled by Leonard Clark (Longman Young Books). Pauline only partially illustrated the Blackie Alice (Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass), with a frontispiece and two dust-jacket pictures, none of them of the Walrus and the Carpenter, and that was first published in 1950. I've advised Bonhams.
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