Tolkien. Master Of Middle-earth The Achievement Of J. R. R. Tolkien.
£25.00
Publisher
Thames and Hudson.
Place
London
Date
1973
Item Description
FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. 8.25 x 5.75 inches. 247 pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, with gilt block of publisher's device on front board, in pictorial dust wrapper, which has a few small tears and chips at head of spine; otherwise a very good copy. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. An early study of the fantasy fiction work of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), University of Oxford scholar and academic philologist. Paul Kocher (1901-98) was professor of English and humanities at Stanford University, writer on Elizabethan drama, and an authority on Tolkien. First published in the US 1972.
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