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TOLKIEN**, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel]: : Mr Bliss: FACSIMILE EDITION

LONDON.HarperCollinsPublishers,2007.

ISBN 9780007255337.

UK,slim landscape 12mo HB+slipcase,1st edn thus,2nd impression.[Complete number line 9 - 2 descending,so 1st edn,2nd imp.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to slipcase.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-corners,colour pictorial artwork,by J.R.R. Tolkien,illustrated panels of paper-covered card slipcase; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or rubbing. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original dark green cloth boards with white ink printed double-lined edged border and bright,crisp,blocked white lettering centrally placed within the borders and author's facsimile signature to front cover,rear cover with similar edged borders and bright,crisp, blocked white lettering within,similar lettering to spine/backstrip; all with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Plain,dark green glossy endpapers and a green+white chequered headband.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,slim landscape 12mo HB+ slipcase,1st edn,2nd imp,1-48pp [paginated] includes all facsimile text and colour illustration by Tolkien,from his own original handwritten notebook.Each page of the original manuscript is reproduced in facsimile with a facing printed text.Plus [unpaginated] text illustrated ffe,colour pictorial artwork by Tolkien,illustrated title page,title separator page,a colour illustrated last page,'The End' page with publisher's advert for other Tolkien works/titles of interest to verso. 'Mr Bliss,a man notable for his immensely tall hats and for the girabbit in his garden,takes the whimsical decision to buy a motor car.But his first drive to visit friends quickly becomes a catalogue of disasters.Some of these could be blamed on Mr Bliss's style of driving,but even he could not anticipate being hijacked by three bears. . . J.R.R. Tolkien invented and illustrated the book of Mr Bliss's adventures in the 1930s,when his own children were very young.This imaginative tale of eccentricity is faithfully reproduced here exactly as he created it - with lots of detailed and uproarious colour pictures. First published posthumously (Tolkien died 1973) in 1982 by George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd.,London,fifty years after it was written,this definitive edition has been newly reproduced from the original notebook.With the complete text printed alongside Tolkien's distinctive handwritten pages,the comical story and colourful illustrations are sure to delight readers of all ages. An unusual item/ephemera in Tolkien's bold style and will be an important and welcome addition to the Tolkien canon. Want more J.R.R. TOLKIEN titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS2,1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die,and/or CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included or postage FREE.That offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. .

UK,slim landscape 12mo HB+s/case,1st edn thus.

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