Bilbo’s Last Song — Hutchinson Edition (2002) — Hardback in Dustwrapper

Bilbo’s Last Song by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Hutchinson, London · Sydney · Auckland · Johannesburg, 2002.

2002 Hutchinson hardback edition, illustrated throughout by Pauline Baynes.

This beautifully produced volume presents Tolkien’s poetic epilogue to The Lord of the Rings, first published in 1990. In this edition, two lines of the poem are printed across each double-page spread, accompanied by full-colour illustrations depicting Bilbo’s adventures and the passage of the Ring-bearers from Rivendell to the Grey Havens.

The copyright page (as photographed) states:
First published in Great Britain by Unwin Hyman Ltd, 1990.
This edition published by Hutchinson, 2002 (a division of The Random House Group Ltd).
Text © The Order of the Holy Paraclete, 1974.
Illustrations © Pauline Baynes, 1990.
ISBN 0-09-188488-8.
Printed in Singapore by Tien Wah Press [PTE].

Original publisher’s blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to the spine, with the original illustrated dustwrapper reproducing Pauline Baynes’s artwork.

Condition:
A very well-preserved example. The boards are clean and fresh, the binding firm and square. The dustwrapper remains bright and attractive with only light handling wear visible in the photographs. Internally clean and unmarked. Overall a very nice copy.

A charming illustrated Tolkien volume and an ideal companion to the Baynes-illustrated Middle-earth titles.

Photographs shown are of the exact copy offered.

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