![]() ![]() Tolkien." The recipients, the Livesleys and their son Edgar, ran the Kennaway House, a Regency town house in the village of Sidmouth, East Devon which Tolkien used as a summer holiday home and the surrounds of which inspired the landscapes, flora, and fauna of The Shire", the region of Middle-earth inhabited hobbits first introduced in The Hobbit. Livesley & Edgar with best wishes from J.R.R. Presentation copy, inscribed by Tolkien on the flyleaf, "Mr. ![]() Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece and 9 full-page uncolored illustrations after drawings by Tolkien. First edition, first issue of Tolkien's classic tale, "among the very highest achievements of childrenĆ¢ s authors during the 20th centuryĆ¢ (Carpenter & Pritchard, 530), one of only a handful of presentation copies reserved for Tolkien to give to family members, colleagues and close friends. ![]()
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