Roverandom

J.R.R. Tolkien, Edited Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond

ISBN 10: 0007523289 / ISBN 13: 9780007523283

Published by Harpercollins Publishers, London, 2013

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Collectible Fine Hardcover Fine Dust Jacket English Pound Price intact. NOT a library copy. 2013 "6" on Number line English Edition (See Scan for Edition) Clean 192 pp. Wonderful Color Frontis and Color Endpapers. B/W drawings by J. R. R. Tolkien. "He the (Whire Dragon) fought the Red Dragon in Caerdragon in Merlin's time, as you will find in all the more up to date history books, some time after King Arthur's disappearance, at a time when dragons' tails ere esteemed a great delicacy by the Saxon Kings." Like new Collectible condition. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans. Seller Inventory # 8534428593113806

Bibliographic Details

Title: Roverandom

Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers, London

Publication Date: 2013

Binding: Hardcoverf

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: Sixth English Edition.

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Synopsis:

J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy story about the adventures of a bewitched toy dog, written before The Hobbit.

While on holiday in 1925, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach at Filey in Yorkshire. To console him, his father, J.R.R.Tolkien, improvised a story about Rover, a real dog who is magically transformed into a toy and is forced to seek out the wizard who wronged him in order to be returned to normal.

This charming tale, peopled by a sand-sorcerer and a terrible dragon, by the king of the sea and the Man-in-the-Moon, was Tolkien’s first full-length children’s book, written before The Hobbit. Now, nearly 90 years later, the adventures of Rover – or, for reasons that become clear in the story, ‘Roverandom’ – are published in this delightful pocket hardback edition. Rich in wit and wordplay, Roverandom is edited and introduced by Tolkien experts Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond, and includes Tolkien’s own delightful illustrations.

Review:

‘This is an old-fashioned story, yet it still speaks freshly today... would leap to life when read aloud to a child’
Independent

‘Lord of the Rings buffs will enjoy picking out bits of Nordic mythology and will relish Tolkien’s fabulous sense of landscape’
The Times