Tree and Leaf by Tolkien, First Edition (20 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. J.R.R. Tolkien (illustrator). 1st Edition. Two paperbacks of important works by Tolkien: First is a re-set of "On fairy-stories" and "Leaf by Niggle" it offers the underlying philosophy of much of tolkien's fantastical writings. Along with the short story Smith of Wootton Major and a play; The Homecoming of Beorthnoth. The second book is a collection of tolkien's 'expanded' Middle Earth stories (mostly longer versions of tales from The Silmarillion, but there are plenty of revealing Lord of the Rings moments featuring old faves Gandalf, Elrond, The Nazgul, Balrogs et al) edited into a single volume by the authors son, Christopher Tolkien. Condition very good to near fine; foxing around all edges some color fading of covers. Insides are very good with slight browning of pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st US Edition, 2nd Printing. Hardbound w/ Dust Jacket. Bright, unclipped dust jacket shows some minor edgewear and light fading to its spine. Otherwise in very good condition. Interior pages clean and binding sound. RARE!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 112 pages, 8vo. First American Edition, Third Printing. Jacket price is unclipped. Shelfwear to DJ: light suffing, 1/4-inch missing piece along top edge of front cover, some light chipping along edges. DJ in mylar. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Clean and unmarked. EB.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Laminated ilustrated card cover, clean and bright, very slight roll to spine. Very pale spotting to the upper closed page edge. Text block firm. Small neat ink inscription inside the front. Pages smooth and clean, no foxing, just very lightly age-toned. A very good tidy copy of this scarce edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Still stiff to open in clean black cloth with just the faintest haze to top and front edge; in bright clean dust jacket. 1 of 4000 in the first printing. ; 4.5 X 0.5 X 7 inches; 101 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1965 Houghton Mifflin first American edition, first printing in chipped price intact jacket. Ownership ink to flyleaf. Tight binding text unmarked. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

J.R.R. Tolkien's Tree and Leaf holds an essential place in the development of modern fantasy and mythopoeic literature. Published in 1965 by Houghton Mifflin Company, this volume is the first American printing of Tolkien's essay On Fairy-Stories, where he coins the literary term "eucatastrophe" and articulates the literary merits of fantasy as a serious literary genre. The book also includes Leaf by Niggle, an allegorical story rich in theological and artistic imagery. The juxtaposition of these two texts offers a window into Tolkien's literary and creative philosophy. Octavo (8vo), single volume. Very Good condition; blue cloth boards are clean with very minor edgewear, text block is loose but intact, and pages show marginal age-toning with some annotations from a previous reader. Very Good original dust jacket designed by Robert Quackenbush is present with some chipping at edges and top of spine, unclipped price at $4.00, light toning and staining to rear panel. Collation: viii, 112 pp. Edition: First U.S. edition, First Printing stated. #31102 PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First US edition, first impression, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1965. Originally published in the UK by George Allen & Unwin a year earlier. Unclipped dust jacket is generally smart, a short closed tear to the top edge, back panel a little tanned, now a tidy removable protective wrapper. Dark greyish blue cloth covers, gilt lettering to the front and spine, orange or light red top edge, securely bound. Dark greyish blue endpapers, clean tidy pages, no inscriptions. Very good condition. The US edition is a slightly larger format than the UK edition, it measures approx 21x14cm, with a unique dust jacket design by Robert Quackenbush. Tree and Leaf comprises of On Fairy Stories, Leaf By Niggle, and an introductory note by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression, published by George Allen & Unwin in 1964. Price clipped dust jacket is generally bright, spine tanned, with some chipping to the bottom edge, fore edges with some wear to very small chips. Jacket now in an archival quality removable protective wrapper. Dark green covers and top edge, a few minor marks to the top edge, bright gilt lettering to the spine, bottom edge of spine lightly bumped, the boards are very, very slightly splayed. Previous owners name in pen to the front free endpaper, the title page has a small scuff, probably where something has been erased. Pages otherwise clean and tidy. Good + condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Copy In a Near Fine Jacket Lightly Faded At the Spine.10s6d on Flap.First Edition. Beautiful Rare Copy Of An Early Tolkien Book. Very Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 92 Pp + Catalog At End. Green Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Fine In Near Fine Dj, Not Price Clipped, Minute Loss At Top Of Two Flap Folds, No Foxing, Bright And Clean, Hint Of Fading To Spine Panel.

First American edition. 8vo, hardcover, dust jacket,112 pp. Some slight edgewear to dj (still in very nice shape), normal aging; otherwise in really good condition. Third printing.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: good. first edition first printing. 5 5/8 x 8 3/8" 112 pages. bottom of dj spine has 1/4 x 1 inch chip lacking, smaller chip lacking from lower front bottom corner of dj 3/4 x 1/4 chip from top edge front panel by spine. dj now in mylar protector. rear panel of dj shows spots and light staining. DJ is NOT price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Originally published in 1964 [Allen & Unwin, London]. Very Fine in black cloth, glossy dark green dustwrapper, not price-clipped. This reissue includes the text of the poem Mythopoeia. Q21231.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First American edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight exceptionally bright copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($4.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Tolkien's two works on "the meaning and value of myth and fantasy." The works included are a revised version of his essay "On Fairy Stories" (1947) and the allegorical short story "Leaf by Niggle" (1945). Both pieces were re-issued in the collection The Tolkien Reader (1966), and have also appeared in various subsequent collections.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Small octavo. 92, [4] ads pp. Tolkien's facsimile signature on the title page. Boards a little splayed, else very near fine in a modestly spine-toned near fine dust jacket. An essay on fairy stories, accompanied by an exemplary short story. A handsome copy.

Condition: Very good. First Edition. Uncorrected proof of the first US edition of Tolkien's long essay on fairy tales, accompanied by an exemplary story ? W.H. Auden's copy. Though unsigned, this copy is W.H. Auden's, with his markings in the text and notes (including a list of the seven deadly sins) on the blank verso of the last leaf. Auden famously wrote a 1954 NEW YORK TIMES review raving about THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RINGS, which in no small part helped legitimize Tolkien in literary circles: "No fiction I have read in the last five years has given me more joy." He also shared a friendly correspondence with Tolkien, exchanging letters frequently over the years and receiving advance copies of the next two installments of the series. He also, the year after TREE AND LEAF appeared, spoke at a New York gathering of the Tolkien Society. Tolkien himself later contributed a lovely poem in Anglo-Saxon and English titled "For W.H.A." as part of a festschrift for Auden's sixtieth birthday in SHENANDOAH. This book, in many ways a critical defense of the kind of stories Auden had previously so lavishly praised, would have undoubtedly been of particular interest. An excellent association and rare in this format. 11'' x 5.5''. Original plastic-comb-bound printed pale blue wrappers. [2], 82 pages. With Auden's marginal marks throughout and his notes on the final leaf. Offsetting and small coffee(?) stains mostly confined on wrappers, a bit musty. Comb intact.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. First edition, first printing. A presentation copy to Oxford poet, Elizabeth Joan Jennings (1926-2001), with a one-page holograph note signed by J. R. R. Tolkien laid in, "Dear Elizabeth, Very best wishes. I hope you have some cheer at Christmas. Remember me to C.D.L. [Cecil Day-Lewis] I believe I have only once met him and wish it were more often. Yours ever affectionately, Ronald." Jennings grew up referring to Tolkien as "Uncle Ronald." 92, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with spine lettered in gilt; dark green topstain. Near Fine with light foxing to fore edge; Jennings has signed her name in blue ink on the front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine, a few small spots of soiling, minor foxing and toning to edges, and small tape repair to front flap fold on recto. Housed in a custom yellow quarter morocco solander case. An excellent presentation copy of the author's anthology gifted to Elizabeth Joan Jennings a noted poet known for her lyric poetry and the daughter of Dr. Henry Cecil Jennings, a close friend of Tolkien's during their undergraduate days at Oxford. She was the younger sister of Aileen Jennings, generally held to be the first child to read The Hobbit before Mr. Unwin "tried it out." Elizabeth was awarded the CBE from Queen Elizabeth II in 1992 and the only female member of The Movement. "C.D.L." refers to Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1927), Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and mystery writer who was good friends with Jennings. Provenance: from the collection of William Strutz with his bookplate on paste down, and before that House of Books in New York. Small handwritten note from bookseller explaining provenance included. Hammond & Anderson A7b.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First British edition, first printing. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Small ding to lower board else Fine. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine, minor soiling and small pen mark at right edge of front cover. A very nice copy.