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Bilbo's Last Song by JRR Tolkien and illustrated and signed by Pauline Baynes

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Binding: Hardcover w/Jacket Origin: Canada
Subject: Fairy Tales & Myths Format: Hardcover
Year Printed: 1990 Publication Year: 1990
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated, Signed Language: English
On offer is a 1st Canadian edition of JRR Tolkien's "Bilbo's Last Song, beautifully illustrated by Tolkien's favourite illustrator Pauline Baynes. This is a good clean copy.  The pages are bright without tears or marks.  The board cover is clean with minimal scuffs,  The jacket has two small indentations near the spine and a small tear at the top of the spine.  See photos.  Included is a christmas letter from 1999 by Pauline Baynes, who died in 2008, writing about a recent reissue of Tolkien's "Farmer Giles of Ham" that she illustrated.  The letter is dated December 1999 and reads...

"Thank you so much for your card about the new edition of Farmer Giles, so kind of you to write.  The cover is an adaptation of the second cover I did for the book- after the original one 40 years ago! The new edition, with the Hammer's erudite notes, has a new map, added or done this year.
It was a joy to have you encouragement and thank you again.
I hope all is well with you.
Happy Christmas and every best wish- sincerely Pauline" 
 

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