Dec 01, 2016 - Sale 2433

Sale 2433 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 1,750
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Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(GOBLE, WARWICK.) Owen, Dora; editor. The Book of Fairy Poetry. 16 tipped-in color plates by Goble on captioned mounts, with tissue guards. 4to, recent grey morocco gilt; top edges trimmed, others uncut. first english trade edition. London and New York: Longmans, Green & Co., (1920)

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This collection of fairy poetry includes Tolkien's poem 'Goblin Feet', which had been Tolkien's first book appearance in Oxford Poetry 1915, and has its first illustrated iteration here.