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Eleventh edition of Farmer Giles of Ham, published in 1974 by Alden & Mowbray Ltd (Oxford, UK) ISBN: 0 04 823068 5 1st published in 1949, by the great author of Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien. Bought second hand but in very good condition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some minor yellowing of the outer edges of pages, some scuffs to dust jacket. A golden find for a Tolkien collector! The book's blurb says.... Farmer Giles, rather than a fairy story of any kind, is an imaginative history of the distant and marvelous past. Its scene is the valley of the Thames and this island of Britain, while it was "still happily divided into many kingdoms," in the days before King Arthur or the Seven Kingdoms. Here is a new hero, unheroic, but fortunate and shrewd, Farmer Giles of Ham, and his mare, and his dog. Here also for dragon fanciers is another dragon, less terrible perhaps than Smaug but not less wealthy or wily: Chrysophylax of the imperial line. The story was not written for children in particular, but many of them will enjoy it all the more for that, as some already have. Its imaginative atmosphere and magic are best captured when read aloud, when it will live with all the force of "a tale that holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner." The delightful embellishments by Pauline Diana Baynes include two plates in colour. "It is full of scholar's wit, with graceful drawings entirely suited to the text, and will be appreciated by discriminating children of all ages." The Sunday Times. |
Postage and handling Item location: Horsham, Victoria, Australia Posting to: Australia
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