Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Size: 8vo
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd, 1981, London
ISBN: 0048260053

[Book #13614]

A very attractive copy in Fine condition in alike dustjacket. First UK edition published in 1981 by George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., approx. 7,500 - 10,000 copies planned, state (3), variant (a) as identified in Hammond and Anderson (Di1) ;

354 letters from J. R. R. Tolkien are included in this selection edited by his official biographer with assistance from Tolkien's own son Christopher. Letters containing pertinent information about his writing were given top priority as well as letters that showed Tolkien's wide variety of interests outside the literary world. These letters, too, reveal the private man and the family man