Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd, 1949, London
Illustrator: Illustrated by Baynes, Pauline Diana

[Book #12731]

One of 4,500 First Edition/1st Printing copies in trade binding published in October 1949 in Fine condition. Bound in light orange textured paper over boards, no headbands, all edges trimmed, top edge stained blue. Dust-jacket is wove paper and printed on front flap in blue, 6s net. (Hammond A4A). Minor chipping along top edges of dust jacket with small stain along bottom. Some discoloration along top edges of front book cover. Gentle signs of wear on an overall fine scarce Tolkien collectible;

Farmer Giles of Ham came upon his hero status quite by accident after scaring off a second-rate giant in this fairy tale farce by Tolkien. The fat and red-bearded Farmer Giles naturally becomes the primary candidate for doing battle with the dragon Chrysophylax. Farmer Giles of Ham is the only one of Tolkien's fairy tales to have been placed in a known region and an approximate time frame