Roverandom, First Edition (28 results)

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In 1925, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach. To console him, his father, J.R.R. Tolkien, improvised a story about Rover, a real dog who is magically transformed into a toy and is forced to seek out the wizard who wronged him in order to be returned to normal. This charming tale, peopled by a sand-sorcerer and a terrible dragon, by the king of the sea and the Man-in-the-Moon, endured several drafts over the years. Now, more than seventy years later, the adventures of Rover are published for the first time. Rich in wit and wordplay, Roverandom is edited and introduced by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond and illustrated with Tolkien's own delightful drawings. "Roverandom" recounts the tale of a little dog who is magically transformed into a toy and has many fantastic adventures in search of the wizard who wronged him. Illustrations. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

J.R.R. Tolkien (illustrator). About the adventures of a young dog, Rover. In the story, an irritable wizard turns Rover into a toy, and Rover goes to the Moon and under the sea in order to find the wizard again to turn him back into a normal-sized dog. Tolkien wrote this for his son Michael upon the loss of his favourite toy. Good to very good condition, pages show foxing from shelf sitting. Probably never read, binding is still tight. DJ is clean and bright, has a couple of rust spots on back of DJ. An excellent addition for the complete Tolkien collector.

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Illus. by the author (illustrator). 1st. 8vo, 106 pp., Edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. First printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. 1st printing with full numberline. near fine in dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No markings. Complete number line.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Clean and tight and square with sharp corners. Appears unread/unopened. Edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. Dark green boards with gold lettering on the spine. The dust jacket has just a little shelfwear and is in new mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fantasy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1998 Houghton Mifflin. First printing (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Without marks or writing. Clearly new and unread. Forest green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket is as new, protected in an archival Brodart cover. Tolkien's own color illustrations on glossy heavy stock. A beautiful gift quality collectible. Ships promptly in sturdy packaging. Priority shipping available.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine, Unread Copy, In A Fine Jacket. As New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1ST. Excellent Copy - A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Near Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean, Not Bumped. Fore Edges Have A Tiny Bit Of Shelf Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Near Fine Condition. Not Chipped Or Crinkled. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks And Enjoy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. J R R Tolkien (illustrator). 1st Edition. Blue boards, gilt titles to spine. Unclipped DJ a little bit of wear.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Third printing . Book and dust wrapper in very good condition . Dust wrapper has fading. Book has no inscriptions and is not an ex library book . Dust wrapper is not price clipped. Please see photographs which are of the actual book . Book is in transparent protective wrapper . All books shipped via Royal mail tracked and packed in bubble wrap and cardboard book sleeves.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. In Near Fine condition, all pages are clean with no markings. Dust jacket in Near Fine condition with plastic covering.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 8vo (22cm by 14cm), xxii, 106pp. 5 plates by J R R Tolkien. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. There is some light tanning of the contents; otherwise, the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0261103539.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In 1925, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach. To console him, his father, J.R.R. Tolkien, improvised a story about Rover, a real dog who is magically transformed into a toy and is forced to seek out the wizard who wronged him in order to be returned to normal. This charming tale, peopled by a sand-sorcerer and a terrible dragon, by the king of the sea and the Man-in-the-Moon, endured several drafts over the years. Now, more than seventy years later, the adventures of Rover are published for the first time. Rich in wit and wordplay, Roverandom is edited and introduced by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond and illustrated with Tolkien's own delightful drawings. "Roverandom" recounts the tale of a little dog who is magically transformed into a toy and has many fantastic adventures in search of the wizard who wronged him. Illustrations. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In 1925, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach. To console him, his father, J.R.R. Tolkien, improvised a story about Rover, a real dog who is magically transformed into a toy and is forced to seek out the wizard who wronged him in order to be returned to normal. This charming tale, peopled by a sand-sorcerer and a terrible dragon, by the king of the sea and the Man-in-the-Moon, endured several drafts over the years. Now, more than seventy years later, the adventures of Rover are published for the first time. Rich in wit and wordplay, Roverandom is edited and introduced by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond and illustrated with Tolkien's own delightful drawings. "Roverandom" recounts the tale of a little dog who is magically transformed into a toy and has many fantastic adventures in search of the wizard who wronged him. Illustrations. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - . 2013 1st Edition 2nd Printing, ROVERANDOM By J.R.R. Tolkien Author Bio: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL (3 January 1892 - 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. He then moved within the same university to become the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, and held these positions from 1945 until his retirement in 1959. Tolkien was a close friend of C. S. Lewis, a co-member of the informal literary discussion group The Inklings. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972. Synopsis: Roverandom is a novella by J. R. R. Tolkien, originally told in 1925, about the adventures of a young dog, Rover. In the story, an irritable wizard turns Rover into a toy, and Rover goes to the Moon and under the sea in order to find the wizard again to turn him back into a normal-sized dog. The author wrote Roverandom for his son Michael to amuse him upon the loss of his favourite toy, a little leaden dog which he lost on a beach of grey shingle stones the same size and colour as the toy. The work is in tone a children's story, but contains many allusions and references in the manner of Farmer Giles of Ham. It 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. Roverandom was included in the collection Tales from the Perilous Realm from its 2009 reprinting onwards. Binding: Hardcover, sextodecimo or sixteenmo (16mo 4 × 6 3?4 in 102 × 171 mm ) Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary. Collation: pp. 192 Language: English Published By: HarperCollins, ISBN: 9780007523283 Condition Report: Dust Jacket: Yes, Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Very Good - . SKU: BTETM0001150 Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition First Printing. First edition, first printing hard cover with unclipped dust jacket, both in very good condition. Light shelfwear only, including minor creasing to dust jacket edges, light tanning to pageblock. Green cloth boards are in fine condition, pages are tightly bound, content unmarked. Beautiful, colourful illustrations within remain vibrant and true, as does the image on the dust jacket. CN.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1998, First edition. Edited by Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond. Number line on copyright page: 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. Octavo. 14cm x 22cm approx. 106pp. Illustrated. Publisher's binding, square and firm. In the printed dust jacket, minor shelf-wear. Price intact. Hint of spotting to text-block. Otherwise generally clean and bright. A 'Near Fine' copy.

Hard. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. The lightest of rubbing and edgewear to jacket, else very tidy. Size: 8vo.

gr.8°, 829 S. mit s/w-Abbildungen farbig illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), sehr schönes, sauberes Exemplar. Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main (Nordend ggü. Musterschule) möglich. Das spart die Portokosten. Pickup at the store in Frankfurt am Main (Nordend, close to Musterschule) is possible. It saves the shipping costs.

106 pp. 8vo. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. 106 pp. 8vo. Green cloth. Some light toning throughout, gift inscription on the half-title, near fine.

Octavo, boards. First edition, first printing with code "1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2" on copyright page. A fine copy in fine dust jacket priced £12.99 on the front flap. (#177345).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in green cloth, in a Fine cream and green dustwrapper (from art by Tolkien), not price-clipped. Edited by Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond. 106pp. with Introduction and Notes. Q21264.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, first printing, published by Harpercollins in 1998. A beautiful little story written in 1925, before even The Hobbit, about a dog named Rover, turned into a toy dog by a wizard, and the ensuing adventures to find the wizard again. The story first came about while on a family holiday. His son Michael was upset about losing his toy dog on a beach, so Tolkien came up with the story to make him feel better. Tolkien even created illustrations for the story and attempted to have it published after The Hobbit, but it remained unpublished until long after his death. This is the first printing, published on the 5th of January 1998. Unclipped dust jacket, tiny nick to the bottom edge, some very faint marks, otherwise tidy, dark green cloth effect covers with bright gilt title to spine, slight lean, securely bound. Pages a little age toned, but otherwise smart, no inscriptions. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Harper Collins 1998, some slight fading to jacket spine, but otherwise very nice overall.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Roverandom (Advance Uncorrected Proof) J.R.R. Tolkien. Edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. Published Houghton Mifflin, 1998. This Book is in Near Fine Condition. Bound in White and blue Wraps. Pages remain clean and unmarked; spine, uncreased. From the Preface, "When Rover, a real dog, is transformed into a toy by a wizard, Rover sets out to locate him in order to correct the wrong that has been done and find a way to become a real dog once more." Roverandom is a short children's story by J.R.R. Tolkien published posthumously in 1998. Originally told in 1925 - and written down in 1927 - the story tells of the adventures of the dog Rover who is turned into a toy by the wizard Artaxerxes. Rover goes on adventures to the moon and the bottom of the Deep Blue Sea on his quest to undo his bewitchment. Tolkien wrote Roverandom for his second son, Michael, to console him for the loss of his own little black-and-white toy dog on a beach in Yorkshire. J.R.R.Tolkien was a prolific storyteller to his children, though few of his early stories survive. Roverandom was a particular favourite, so much so that Tolkien wrote it out and even illustrated it himself. But for over 70 years it has remained unpublished. Bearing many of the hallmarks which were to make The Hobbit such a classic ten years later, this delightful book is finally published together with Tolkien's own paintings and drawings. Introduced by Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull, authors of the acclaimed J.R.R.Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator, this book is destined to become a classic and will be welcomed by Tolkien fans of all ages. A nice must have collectable book.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Children's illustrated] FIRST US EDITION, UK sheets, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxii; 106. With five colour plates, illustrated by Tolkien. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at $17 to front flap. Internally bright and clean. Some rubbing and edgewear to jacket. Near fine. A tale Tolkien invented for his son Michael after he lost his favourite toy on holiday. The story is about a dog, Rover, who was cursed by a wizard to take the form of a toy. Rover must venture far and wide to track down this wizard, meeting dragons, kings, and even the Man in the Moon on the way.