We accept MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, checks and wire transfer. For some items, we can also email digital photographs.Īll of our items are guaranteed as described and are shipped on approval. If you are interested in an item from one of our catalogues or our website and would like more information before ordering it, please give us a call one of our salespeople will be happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you might have.

Owner ink signature.īook about-fine original dust jacket with a bit of edge-wear, faint spotting to rear panel only, brighter than often found.

After Tolkien’s death, Baynes illustrated his poem “Bilbo’s Last Song,” and 19 editions of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien’s favorite illustrator (of her efforts for this work, he said, “They are more than illustrations, they are a collateral theme”), Baynes illustrated several of his shorter works and also provided maps for both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Although Pauline Baynes is probably best known for her illustrations in The Chronicles of Narnia, her most lasting collaboration, begun with this book, was with Tolkien. “Like The Hobbit, Farmer Giles of Ham is largely concerned to show the absurdity of conventional heroism… Rather oddly, in view of Tolkien’s later fame, it has never received the attention it deserves as a piece of comic writing” (Carpenter & Prichard, 532). Small octavo, original textured orange paper boards, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket.įirst edition of Tolkien’s delightful tale of an unlikely dragon slayer, wonderfully illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Farmer Giles of Ham… Embellished by Pauline Diana Baynes. “A KIND OF ANTI-BEOWULF” (TOM SHIPPEY): FIRST EDITION OF TOLKIEN’S FARMER GILES OF HAM, ILLUSTRATED BY PAULINE BAYNES

Tolkien farmer giles of ham