THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL And Other Verses From The Red Book. This item is unavailable.THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL And Other Verses From The Red Book

First edition. Octavo. Publisher's pictorial paper covered boards, with a full-colour wraparound design illustrated by Pauline Baynes, in the original dustwrapper of the same design. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes in line and with full-page illustrations in black and orange. A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, generally crisp but with a shallow chip to the upper panel. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Occasional pencil annotations throughout. The final book set in Middle-Earth to be published in Tolkien's lifetime. Tom Bombadil first surfaced in a 1934 poem Tolkien published in the Oxford magazine, and in 1937 Tolkien suggested that this character could be the hero of a sequel to The Hobbit. This didn't come to fruition, but in the 1960s Tolkien's aunt Jane Neave suggested he should produce a gift book about Tom Bombadil that people could buy at Christmas presents. Tolkien and his publisher collected poems about Tom, and other poems from Middle-earth into the present volume.…