Roverandom (Advance Uncorrected Proof)

J.R.R. Tolkien. Edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond.
Published Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

This Book is in Near Fine Condition. Bound in White and blue Wraps.
Clean pages and an uncreased spine. The wrappers show light handling wear, toning and scattered small marks.

Tolkien's tale follows a dog transformed into a toy, whose adventures take him to the moon and beneath the sea as he seeks to regain his original form.

Roverandom is a short children's story by J.R.R. Tolkien published posthumously in 1998. Originally told in 1925 - and written down in 1927 - the story tells of the adventures of the dog Rover who is turned into a toy by the wizard Artaxerxes. Rover goes on adventures to the moon and the bottom of the Deep Blue Sea on his quest to undo his bewitchment.

Tolkien wrote Roverandom for his second son, Michael, to console him for the loss of his own little black-and-white toy dog on a beach in Yorkshire.

The story was first published posthumously in 1998, edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond, with Tolkien's own illustrations.

An attractive pre-publication copy of Tolkien’s imaginative tale of a small dog’s extraordinary adventures.

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