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1974-1990 - After Tolkien Part 1

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The Silmarillion

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Printed Books, Manuscripts and Music. 1986Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and Music.
Editor unknown.
27 May and 10 June 1986.
Sotheby’s.
London.
ISBN: None.
Auction catalogue.
Photographs throughout.
Hammond Page Ref.: p.364.

Notes
This catalogue includes several letters from Tolkien:

Item 555 Quotes from a letter to Mrs Ogden dated 19 November 1968 regarding a stay in hospital. See also Autograph Letters and Historical Documents.

Item 556 Quotes from a letter to G.E. Selby dated 7 July 1946, discussing an erroneous report of his retirement. See also Nineteenth Century and Modern First Editions.

Item 557 Quotes from a letter to Naomi Mitchison dated 18 December 1949, regarding deficiencies in the production of The Hobbit, dragons and languages. See also Valuable Autograph Letters.

Item 558 Quotes from a letter to J.D. Gilbert dated 17 April 1967, discussing books read in childhood and The Silmarillion.

The letter in item 557 is reprinted in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, but the others are not.

 

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