John Howe Map (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Xviii, Map, 490Pp. + Many Plates. Green Cloth, Gilt, Plate Mounted On Front Cover, Top Edge Gilt. Wear, Slight Soiling And Six Small Faint Damp Spots On Front Cover, Hinge Lightly Cracked Before Half Title Page, A Few Pages Roughly Opened With Edge Tears.

Hardcover. Limited Edition. pp. 310. 12mo., measuring 4.5" x 7.25". Publisher's matte black boards, silver lettering to the spine and front board. Black-and-white map. Book accompanied with a large fold-out map of Wilderland (still in publisher's shrinkwrap), eight unsealed postcards, and a CD-Rom; all housed within like, matte black, case. No detectable flaws: bright, clean, and unmarked; as new. Scarce in commerce. This Limited Edition Collector's Box comprises of a special hardcover edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece of children's literature; a full colour fold-out map of Wilderland by John Howe showing Bilbo's journey 'there and back again' in glorious detail, complete with a booklet by Brian Sibley about the writing of The Hobbit; Eight colour postcards featuring Tolkien's own magnificent maps, and paintings of history'; An exclusive free CD of an archive recording from 1952 of J.R.R. Tolkien reading Bilbo's encounter with the horrible Gollum, never previously available on CD. …