Tolkien J R R Jacket Art (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Baynes, Pauline (illustrator). 1st Edition. As New copy. This edition reprints the text first published in 1949, together with its original illustrations by Pauline Baynes. It also contains the earliest written version of the story and Tolkien's notes for a sequel.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Bill Sanderson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very Fine original black cloth, colour frontispiece showing a page from the manuscript of the New Lay of Gudrun, in Very Fine DW, protected in Brodart sleeve. Jacket art by Bill Sanderson. First publication of Tolkien's two closely related poems based on the great legend of Northern antiquity, to which he gave the titles "The New Lay of the Volsungs" and "The New Lay of Gudrun", along with the first publication of Tolkien's related essay on the Elder Edda.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Alan Lee (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very Fine original blue cloth, in Very Fine DW, protected in Brodart sleeve. Wrap-around jacket art & eight colour plates, plus chapter heading illustrations by Alan Lee. As well as an expanded narrative text of the Narn I Hin Hurin, this volume contains Geneologies, appendices, a list of names, and a fold-out map. Expanded from The Narn I Hin Hurin, originally published in "Unfinished Tales", and loosely based on the Tale of Sigurd the Volsung from the German Nibelungenlied, the story unfolds in the remote First Age of Middle-Earth when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron, the tragedy of Turin and his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the Elves. Their brief and passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Hurinm the man who had dared to defy and to scorn him to his face. Against them he sent his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Into this story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with fading hope, the Dark Lord and the Dragon enter in direly articulate form. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulated the fates of Turin & Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Ted Nasmith (illustrator). Fine original black cloth, silver titles to spine, colour map end-papers, illustrated with 18 colour plates, neat gift inscription to half-title, else Fine throughout, in Near Fine DW, protected in Brodart sleeve, with front and rear panel jacket ar t by Ted Nasmith. A lovely edition, with beautiful illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book Club Edition. Near Fine original black boards, gilt titles to spine, in Near Fine Brodart-protected DW. Wrap-around jacket art by Donato. Maps redrawn by Stephen Raw, based on Christopher Tolkien's originals. Fairly large, easy-to-read print. An attractive edition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Ted Nasmith (illustrator). Very Fine original fine-grain black cloth, colour map end-papers, illustrated with 18 colour plates, in Near Fine DW, slightly crinkled along top edge, protected in Brodart sleeve. Front & rear jacket art, and illustrated with 18 colour plates by Ted Nasmith. A very attractive copy.