The Father Christmas Letters.. This item is unavailable.The Father Christmas Letters.

TOLKIEN, J. R. R. (1892–1973). The Father Christmas Letters. Edited by Baillie Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1976. First edition, third impression, published in the same year as the first impression. Quarto (4to). 48 unnumbered pages. Publisher’s original laminated pictorial boards, illustrated throughout in color with Tolkien’s letters, drawings, decorated envelopes, stamps, and postmarks. Published posthumously, the volume presents selections from the annual letters Tolkien wrote and illustrated for his children between 1920 and 1943, recounting the adventures of Father Christmas, the North Polar Bear, and their companions. Edited by Tolkien’s daughter-in-law Baillie Tolkien, it offers an intimate and imaginative record of a family Christmas tradition extending over more than two decades. Contents generally clean and unmarked, bright throughout, with the illustrations vivid and well preserved. Binding sound and firm. Pictorial boards rubbed and scuffed, with wear to the spine ends and corners and bumps to the corners. A Very Good copy. References: Hammond and Anderson, J. R. R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography, A14a. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover; Illustrated.].…