Children’s and Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions, Including the James Joyce Collection of the late Dr. Alfred T. Cowie.
Edited by Dominic Winter.
11 December 2003.
Dominic Winter Book Auctions.
Swindon.
ISBN: None.
Auction catalogue.
Photographs throughout.
Page Ref.: None. Notes
The description for Lot 481 (p.66) includes a postscript from a letter to Agatha Carew Hunt dated 11 May 1965. The letter is a standard pre-printed response to an enquiry, but includes a handwritten postscript by Tolkien in which he apologises for the letter not being sent until 4/10/65, and goes on to explain that this was due to a change in secretary and a heavy workload imposed by the Ace Books pirated edition of The Lord of the Rings.
The letter is reproduced in a photograph.
The letter is not included in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981). |
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