JRR Tolkien ROVERANDOM First Edition
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JRR Tolkien ROVERANDOM First Edition
First Hardback Edition, first print of ROVERANDOM, by JRR Tolkien. Edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond and published by Harper Collins Publishers, London in 1998. With the full numberline 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page. The novella was submitted for publication in 1937 after the success of The Hobbit, but was not published for over sixty years finally being released in 1998.The book is in very good condition (clean green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine) with some minor wear to the illustrated dust jacket, which is not price clipped (creasing near the bottom edge at the back). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
After completing a First in English at Oxford, Tolkien was commissioned in the Lancashire Fusiliers and fought in the battle of the Somme. After the war, he obtained a post on the 'New English Dictionary' and began to write the mythological and legendary cycle which he originally called 'The Book of Lost Tales' but which eventually became known as 'The Silmarillion'.
In 1920 Tolkien was appointed Reader in English Language at the University of Leeds which was the beginning of a distinguished academic career culminating with his election as Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. Meanwhile Tolkien wrote for his children and told them the story of 'The Hobbit'. It was his publisher, Stanley Unwin, who asked for a sequel to 'The Hobbit' and gradually Tolkien wrote 'The Lord of the Rings', a huge story that took twelve years to complete and which was not published until Tolkien was approaching retirement. After retirement Tolkien and his wife lived near Oxford, but then moved to Bournemouth. Tolkien returned to Oxford after his wife's death in 1971. He died on 2 September 1973 leaving 'The Silmarillion' to be edited for publication by his son, Christopher.
"J.R.R. Tolkiens fantasy story about the adventures of a bewitched toy dog, written before The Hobbit.
While on holiday in 1925 young Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach. To console him, his father, J.R.R. Tolkien, invented a story about a real dog who is turned into a toy by a wizard and sent by a sand sorcerer to the moon and under the sea.
More than 70 years later, the adventures of the dog Rover, also known as Roverandom, are now published for the first time. They have been edited from the original typescript by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond, who relate the story to sources ranging from the Norse sagas to E. Nesbit, and link it also to Tolkiens other fiction, including 'The Hobbit ', the Father Christmas letters, and The Silmarillion. The book also includes five illustrations by Tolkien himself.
Entertaining and rich in wordplay, 'Roverandom' will delight all readers who love a clever tale, and will be welcomed by Tolkiens many admirers of all ages.
Christina Scull is the former librarian of Sir John Soanes Museum, London and the editor of the magazine 'The Tolkien Collector'. Her husband, Wayne G. Hammond, is Assistant Librarian in the Chapin Library of Rare Books, Williams College, author of the standard bibliography of Tolkiens works, and a regular contributor of Tolkien notes to the journal 'Mythlore'."
This is an old-fashioned story, yet it still speaks freshly today would leap to life when read aloud to a child - Independent
Lord of the Rings buffs will enjoy picking out bits of Nordic mythology and will relish Tolkiens fabulous sense of landscape - The Times
106 pages. Illustrated with colour and black & white drawings.
ISBN: 0 261 10353 9
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