Smith of Wootton Major
J.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN 10: 0048230766 ISBN 13: 9780048230768
Published by Allen & Unwin, 1967
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Smith of Wootton Major is a wonderful short story about a once every 24 years celebration with a great cake and journeys through the magical lands of Faery. A very good example bound in the publisher's decorative paper boards with the usual fading to red portion of the spine and front board Very good to excellent condition, boards are flat and square. Interior pages are clean with no markings. May not have been read, binding is very tight. Seller Inventory # 1501-02
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Two of Tolkien's most popular and charming stories, full of wit and humour, available together for the first time on CD. Smith of Wooton Major tells of the preparation of the Great Cake to mark the Feast of Good Children and the magical events which follow. Leaf by Niggle recounts the strange adventures of the painter, Niggle.
About the Author: J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, but even as he studied these classics he was creating a set of his own.
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Title: Smith of Wootton Major
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publication Date: 1967
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Pauline Baynes
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition
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1974 1st Edtn/Later Prnt SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR By J.R.R. Tolkien Illus. Very Good Tolkien
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George Allen & Unwin, London, 1974
ISBN 10: 0048230766
ISBN 13: 9780048230768
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. N/A (illustrator). 1st Edition. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Please see photos as part of condition report 1974 1st Edition Later Printing, SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR By J.R.R. Tolkien 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. Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: George Allen & Unwin, London octodecimo or eighteenmo (18mo 4 × 6+1?2 102 × 165),Pages 62 ISBN: 9780048230768 Smith of Wootton Major, first published in 1967, is a novella by J. R. R. Tolkien. Background The book began as an attempt to explain the meaning of Faery by means of a story about a cook and his cake, and Tolkein originally thought to call it The Great Cake. It was intended to be part of a preface by Tolkien to George MacDonald's famous fairy story The Golden Key. Tolkien's story grew to become a tale in its own right. The story was first published on 9 November 1967. It was first published in the United States on 23 November 1967 in the Christmas edition of Redbook magazine, but without the illustrations by Pauline Baynes that appeared in the published book. Smith of Wootton Major is not connected to the Middle-earth legendarium, except by the thematic "Faery" motif of the traveler who journeys to a land that lies beyond the normal world and is usually beyond the reach of mortals. (Smith can thus be likened to Beren in the realm of Thingol, or Eärendil journeying to Valinor, or Ælfwine's visit to Tol Eressëa.) It is sometimes published in an omnibus edition with Farmer Giles of Ham, another Tolkien novella with illustrations by Pauline Baynes. The two stories are not obviously linked, other than by their common authorship. These two, together with The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and "Leaf by Niggle", have appeared as Tales from the Perilous Realm. SKU: BTETM0001182 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg. Seller Inventory # BTETM0001182
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