Tolkien, J R R; Lee, Alan Illus (27 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illus. By Alan Lee (illustrator). Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Third Impression. 315pp, + fold out map. Size: 8vo.

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

FIRST EDITION. Super 8vo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

4to(25.2x19.2) HB 5th edition. 288pp illus. Dark green cloth with gilt design to front & gilt lettering to spine-mint. Unclipped glossy illus dust jacket with gilt/black lettering-fine. Internally mint. (1180g) Heavy volume may require extra shipping costs.

Illus, Alan Lee (illustrator). Quarto, stiff illustrated wraps, colour plates, double-page b&w map, pp 427. Spine and corners creased. Clean. Very good condition. The first volume of The Lord of the Rings, beautifuly illustrated by Alan Lee.

Condition: Very Good. Reprint. VG : in very good condition with rubbed and marked dust jacket. Ribbon marker. 260mm x 170mm (10" x 7"). 1193pp + maps. 50 colour illustrations by Alan Lee. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. Brown/gilt hardback cloth cover.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 315pp., with a folding map, eight colour plates and many monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; boards rubbed and edgeworn; a heavy bump to the fore-edge of the lower board affecting the dustwrapper; text block top edge dusted. Dustwrapper is very is rubbed and edgeworn; a small tear to the lower flap-turn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, 302pp, folding map to rear, illus, VG+ (sl scuffing to extrems, light tanning to edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear).

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 288pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning to page edges, light folding to top corners of terminals) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light fading to spine & cover edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear).

Boards in slip-case. Illus. Alan Lee (illustrator). Deluxe edition. Deluxe Edition, quarto, pp.432, fold-out colour frontispiece painting by award-winning artist Alan Lee, and more than fifty pencil drawings specially commissioned from Lee. Includes a specially written introduction by the acclaimed Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey. Quarter binding with three foil motif to boards, gilt title to spine, in green slip case with gilt decoration. Still in publisher's shrink-wrap, still with publisher's leaflet describing this edition (and showing the ISBN for the unsigned edition). Fine condition. This de luxe edition draws together for the first time Roverandom, Farmer Giles of Ham, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Smith of Wootton Major, and Leaf by Niggle, together with the landmark essay, 'On Fairy-stories'. Published for the first time in a single volume. With an exclusive fold-out colour frontispiece painting and illustrations by award-winning artist Alan Lee. Includes a specially written introduction by the acclaimed Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey. [ISBN: 978-0-00-728618-8].

First edition, signed by the illustrator on the title page. Tolkien worked on this story throughout his life and shorter versions were published in The Silmarillion and other appendices. After his father's death, Christopher Tolkien edited the manuscripts into a coherent narrative and published them as an independent work. Lee's illustrations for Tolkien's Middle-earth epics first appeared in the 1991 edition of The Lord of the Rings and were important in the development of Peter Jackson's films, for which Lee was recruited as a lead concept artist. Octavo. With 8 colour plates of illustrations and chapter-title vignettes by Lee, red and black folding map of Beleriand by Christopher Tolkien at rear. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, grey endpapers. With dust jacket. Small bump to head of spine, corresponding crease on unclipped jacket: a near-fine copy in like jacket.

First Alan Lee edition, signed limited issue, number 125 of 600 copies signed by the illustrator and specially presented in the Smaug-decorated binding and slipcase. Lee's illustrated editions of Tolkien were a key inspiration for Peter Jackson, who recruited Lee as a lead concept artist for the films. It is Lee's visualization of Middle-earth that is perhaps most familiar to a 21st-century audience. This deluxe issue was produced exclusively for Hatchards to celebrate both the 60th anniversary of the work's publication and the 200th anniversary of the bookshop's founding. A compliments card from Hatchards is loosely inserted. Large octavo. With 26 colour plates, 2 double-page maps printed in red and black, many line drawings in the text. Original dark red quarter morocco, spine lettered in gilt with Tolkien's monogram at head, red cloth sides ruled in gilt and stamped with Smaug device on front, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Housed in publisher's red cloth slipcase with Smaug device on front. Trivial scratch to rear cover, still a fine copy.