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PRIVATE PRESS

The Collection of the late P.J.R. Catterall
Lot 338

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)
The Hobbit or There and Back Again, George Allen (6)

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)

The Hobbit or There and Back Again, sixth impression (second edition), colour frontispiece, ownership inscription ("Xmas 1954") inside upper cover, dust-jacket unclipped, with small loss at extremities of spine, top margin with a few small tears, [1954]; The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., second edition, second impression, 1967; The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, FIRST EDITION, 1962; The Road Goes Ever On. A Song Cycle... Music by Donald Swann, first English edition, 1968, publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo and 4to, George Allen (6)

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