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Lot 116
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings trilogy comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King; George Allen & Unwin, 1954/55, First editions, all 8th impressions, 8 vo., 3 volumes, each with folding maps at rear and publishers dustwrappers, good condition/clean (3)
Lot 350
Cauty (Jimmy, b.1956). "Escaping from the Zomby Wolf"/"The Bust", two orig. pen and ink drawings with coloured crayon, on one sheet, the lefthand illustration of a snowy rooftop scene with Santa Claus in the chimney, and several elves heaving Santa's sack up the sloping roof, the righthand image with a old white-bearded man outside his snow-clad cottage, eyeing two cloaked figures warily, each image titled to top margin and signed to the lower righthand corner, approx. 360 x 460 mm, mounted, framed and glazed. Possibly referencing the Frank Zappa song 'The Zomby Woof' (Over-Nite Sensation, 1973). British artist and musician, Jimmy Cauty, is best known as one half of the hit-making duo 'The KLF'; as co-founder of 'The Orb' and a leading innovator in the birth of the ambient house genre; and as the man who burnt one million pounds with Bill Drummond on the Scottish island of Jura. Art school-trained Cauty's figures and landscapes are Tolkienesque, and are carefully drawn and meticulously detailed. As a 17-year old, he created a 'Lord of the Rings' poster (and later, a counterpart based on 'The Hobbit'), for British retailer Athena, which became one of their best-selling posters. (1)
Lot 493
Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Fellowship of the Ring / The Two Towers / The Return of the King, 1st ed., pub. George Allen & Unwin, 1954/5, Richard Adams's copy, with his ms. ownership signature and bookplate to each vol., and a few pencilled annotations in his hand, folding map to each, a.e.g., recent scarlet crushed morocco for Asprey, with orig. cloth covers bound in at rear of each vol., spines with gilt dot dec. raised bands, gilt lettered direct on a seme dot ground in second and third compartments, remainder with art nouveau flower tool surrounded by seme dots within double fillet frame, covers with gilt single fillet border, inner dot-filled double fillet border, with stylised flowers at corners, central single fillet panel filled with dots and roundels, with scabious flower at centre of each side, single fillet to board edges, gilt dec. turn-ins, 8vo. With six pages of important manuscript notes by Richard Adams, in which he pours out his thoughts about Tolkien's work and compares it to his own, in a free-flowing hand, with numerous additions and underlinings. He calls Gollum a 'marvellous conception... the awful, unacceptable outsider, who nevertheless is of huge value', and compares him to others who he sees as similar figures, such as Van Gogh, Shelley, Nelson, Emmeline Pankhurst and John Wesley. He goes on to say that Tolkien did not influence his own work, but changes his mind as he writes: 'I don't care for Magic and don't resort to it at all... I can't think of any respect in which Tolkien has influenced me. Afterthought. What about "The Girl in a Swing?" Supernatural. M.R. James?'. Adams expresses his disappointment that there are only two female characters in "Lord of the Rings" - Galadriel and Eowen - neither of whom, he says, exactly represent real Womanhood: '(I'm sure that Women's Lib. don't care for the overwhelmingly masculine tone of the conflict and the characterisation.) "Ask Germaine Greer?" (And "Watership Down" has been criticised for this. But the whole W.D. story hinges on the necessity of the female to a true society.)' Adams concludes that his feelings about "Lord of the Rings" echo Dr. Johnson's about "Paradise Lost": '"No man ever wished it longer"'. (3)
Lot 497
Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Hobbit, 2nd ed. (5th impression), Allen & Unwin, 1951, col. frontis., b & w illusts., map endpapers foxed, Foyles ticket and contemp. ms. name to front pastedown, neat ms. name to prelim. blank, sl. staining to top edges, orig. cloth, cocked, extrems sl. rubbed, small faint mark to upper cover, 8vo. An important edition, with substantial revisions by Tolkien. As Tolkien was writing his sequel to 'The Hobbit', 'Lord of the Rings', he became aware of inconsistencies in the character of Gollum. The original Gollum was less crazed and degraded by his association with the Ring, and slightly at odds, Tolkien felt, with his subsequent desperation and obsession with the Ring in 'Lord of the Rings'. As a result, Tolkien substantially revised Chapter 5, and these revisions were incorporated into the new edition of 1951. (1)
Lot 3255
TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1966. Second edition, 3 vols., 8vo (221 x 136mm.) Occasional illustrations and decorations. Original cloth (slightly bumped), dust-jacket (dust-jackets torn and slightly tattered, vol. I back-strip detached). Note: comprises ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’, ‘The Two Towers’ and ‘The Return of the King’.
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Tolkien, J.R.R The Lord of the Rings trilogy [comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King] London: George Allen and Unwin, 1955. First editions, fourth, second and second impressions, 8vo, 3 volumes, folding map at rear of volume 2 original red publishers cloth, dustwrappers [rubbed at extremities, chipped at edges], interiors clean (3)
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Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Lord of the Rings [comprising] The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King, 3 vols., 1st eds., 1st impressions, 1954-55, folding map to each, contemporary ownership signature of Brian Morris to front free endpapers of vols. 1 & 3 (Oxford, August 1954 / Worcester College, Oxford, Michaelmas 1955), small Blackwell's bookseller's ticket to front pastedown of vol. 1, orig. red cloth gilt in d.j.s with prices unclipped, rubbed at extremities, spines darkened and sl. frayed at heads without loss, sm. split with thin 1/2" paper loss at foot of d.j. to vol. 2 and pinhole puncture to cloth beneath, 8vo Brian Robert Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris (1930-2001), literary scholar and arts administrator. He read English at Worcester College, Oxford, graduating in 1954. He stayed on as a tutor in Old and Middle English while doing his doctorate on John Cleveland, the cavalier poet. He first made his mark as editor and textual critic of English theatre in the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline periods. Besides a long career with several Universities, he was a published poet, and served on numerous English and Welsh arts committees and was made a life peer in 1990. (3)
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Duncan Grant (1885-1978) A wool carpet probably woven by Wilton Royal circa 1935 with baskets of flowers to the angles and centred by flowers within rings of petals the whole bounded by characteristic border 214cm x 364cm Provenance; Lord Clark of Saltwood O.M. C.H. K.C.B. and thence by descent Literature; Anscombe Isabelle 'Omega and after; Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts' published London 1981 plate XII Reed Christopher 'Bloomsbury Rooms; Modernism Subculture and Domesticity' published Yale University Press 2004 page 271 figure 214
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Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, 3rd ed., 1966, col. plts. and b & w illusts., small stain to front free endpaper, orig. dec. cloth, sl. faded at head and foot, in d.j., chipped at folds, and with loss to spine ends, 8vo, together with The Lord of the Rings, deluxe ed., pub. Allen and Unwin, 1978, folding map, orig. silver and gilt dec. cloth, contained in orig. card box, with printed label to lid, 8vo, plus Christie (Agatha), N or M?, pub. for The Crime Club by Collins, 1941, mottled endpapers, orig. cream cloth lettered in green, in chipped d.j., with tear in rear panel, and price label to foot of faded spine, 8vo (3)
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*Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel, 1892-1973. An exceptional Autograph Letter Signed 'J.R.R. Tolkien', 76 Sandfield Road, Headington, Oxford, 8th September 1955, to Mrs Souch, discussing the writing of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, explaining his difficulties in finishing the work, and his intentions for bringing the work to a satisfactory conclusion, also identifying 'Gondor' as modern day Venice, with accompanying envelope, 2pp in a very neat hand, 8vo, with postmarked envelope in Tolkien's holograph. The recipient wrote to Tolkien to ask about the progress of the work, and in particular enquiring as to when the index of names was due to appear. Tolkien in this reply reveals much about his state of mind at the time and his difficulties in bringing the work to a satisfactory conclusion, 'I went for a brief holiday to Gondor (or in modern terms Venice) which only served to reveal my tiredness to the full and not to relieve it. Since my return I have let the days slip. Not to the detriment of Vol. III! That was out of my hands some time ago in the end much has had to be jettisoned, including the facsimiles of the 'Book of Mazarbul' and the index of names (with translation). Such as it is, another 300 pages of narrative and about 100 of additional matter should appear soon I will not relieve your anxiety about the fate of the various characters, but I hope the ending will not seem unworthy. I have not myself any doubt that things went just so, but that does not say that my attempt to record them is successful. The problems of presentiment with so many centres of sympathy and attention were considerable. Before long I must turn to the legends of the First and Second Ages, and put them in order!' (1)
Lot 1
Tolkien John Ronald Reuel. The Lord of the Rings comprising The Fellowship of the Ring first edition London 1954; The Two Towers first edition London 1954; The Return of the King first edition London 1955. Each in torn and chipped dust wrapper with loss resulting in fading to boards.Each volume with folding map to rear 8vo. (3)
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*Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel, 1892-1973). Typed letter signed 'J.R.R. Tolkien', 76 Sandfield Road, Headington, Oxford, 17th February 1963, to Julie [Cape], thanking her for her nice letter telling him that she enjoyed 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings', continuing 'As for writing more about the same characters, I have written almost all there is to write about them. But I hope you will recognize some of the characters in another book I am busy writing, called 'The Silmarillion', which I hope will soon be finished', sending his best wishes to her family and sister, 'it sounds a little as if I have many friends amongst them', one page, 4to, together with the orig. stamped and postmarked envelope (1)
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Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Lord of the Rings, 3 vols., 11th, 8th & 7th imps., 1961, folding map to rear of each vol., orig. crimson cloth, generally in clean condition, contained in orig. pubs. card slipcase, rubbed and marked, with some soiling, together with a reprinted set of the Second Edition of the same work, pub. 1978, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, first vol, with one or two minor marks to extrems., all 8vo (6)
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