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Tolkien and The Silmarillion: Available Copies

Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

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Wheaton, IL: Harold Shaw Publishers. Very Good/Very Good. (1976). . Hardcover w/DJ. 8vo., 89 pp. .

Spotting to the top-edge of the page block, otherwise Fine. The dust jacket has mild wear at the spine ends and corners, and is protected now in a Mylar sleeve. 89 pages with Notes and Index. Contents: I. First Meeting; II. Summer with Tolkien; III. Chronology of Composition and Geography of Middle-Earth; Tolkien as Christian Writer; IV. Tolkien as Christian Writer; V. Tolkien, Lewis & Williams; and VI. Postscript.

brown hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg cond. couple of 1" tears, rubbed, wrinkled, couple of 1cm tears, bit of sunfading, not price clipped. nice clean vintage copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (nap). 89p. endnotes. index. biography. mythology. medieval literature. english literature. folklore. ~ In Tolkien and the Silmarillion, Clyde S. Kilby spins his remembrance of a summer's close personal acquaintance with J. R.R. Tolkien into an intimate portrait of the writer whose mythic universe has kindled the imagination of a vast audience. Here Kilby not only provides a rich diversity of clues to the content of that looked~for magnum opus, The Silmarillion, but elaborates on Tolkien's personal and literary relationships with his contemporaries, C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams. As we accompany Professor Kilby up the walk and through the door into the Tolkien home and office in Oxford, we are shown a series of swift images, like color slides, which allow us tantalizing glimpses of the scholar story~teller himself, and in which we view the gleaming mysteries of Middle Earth, down through its successive ages.

Hardcover, in dust jacket. Some edge-wear and sunning to jacket (now protected in removable archival mylar sleeve). Mild toning to top edge. Otherwise clean, tight, and unmarked. Very neat--a sound copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

A cura di G. Bertani.Traduzione di Manini L.Bari, 2023; br., pp. 156, cm 15x21. "Ci sono libri la cui importanza è inversamente proporzionale alla loro dimensione. Il presente volume è uno di questi. Pubblicato nel 1976, era disponibile prima di qualsiasi altro studio classico o biografia su Tolkien. Cosa più importante ancora, fu una delle poche pubblicazioni che permetteva uno sguardo di prima mano al Legendarium prima ancora della sua pubblicazione in The Silmarillion, e in Unfinished Tales, e, più tardi, nei numerosi volumi della History of Middle-Earth. Il testo nel suo complesso ha resistito sorprendentemente bene allo scorrere del tempo ed è ancora in grado di attrarre il lettore. Non solo Kilby fornisce valutazioni perspicaci e profonde per molti dei principali temi nelle opere e nella vita di Tolkien, ma la descrizione del modo in cui il Professore lo accolse in casa sua, e delle lunghe ore passate a parlare del suo mondo sub-creato, riportano Tolkien in vita, tanto che pare quasi che dalle pagine del libro emani l'odore del fumo della sua pipa." (Thomas Honegger)

Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Patterned brown boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Brown endpapers. 89pps. An excellent copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar-sleeve, is lightly rubbed, has a 1/4" closed tear at the top of the front panel, and a 2" closed tear at the top of the rear panel; these flaws have been repaired with non-acidic archival tape. No chipping. The original price is intact. ".Clyde S. Kilby spins his remembrance of a summer's close personal acquaintance with J. R. R. Tolkien into an intimate portrait of the writer whose mythic universe has kindled the imagination of a vast audience. Here Kilby not only provides a rich diversity of clues to the content of that looked-for magnum opus, 'The Silmarillion' but elaborates on Tolkien's personal and literary relationships with his contemporaries, C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Money back guarantee. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books.

Dustwrapper slightly edgeworn but unfaded and unclipped. Minor foxing to page edges. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition, 1st impression. No ownership marks. Size: 89pp

Hardcover first edition with intact dust jacket and straight firm spine.

The covers are clean with crease marks and sticker pull to front, some bumping to the edges. Tanning to page edges. The binding is firm. The pages are clean and crease free with light tanning. This book has 89 pages. All in all a nice example of this book.

A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. In this slim volume, Clyde Kilby provides a rich diversity of clues to the content of The Silmarillion. He also elaborates on Tolkien's personal and literary relationships with his contemporaries, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams.

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In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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