A Tolkien Miscellany

Overview:

  • Title: A Tolkien Miscellany
  • Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Year: 2002
  • ISBN-10: 0739427369
  • Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club
  • Price: $14.99
  • Pages: 369
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Omnibus
  • Title Reference: Farmer Giles of Ham
  • Notes: SFBC #51697 Date per copyright page, stated "First SFBC Science Fiction Printing: June 2002" on copyright page. No number line, assumed first printing. "Jacket art by Gary Lippincott" on back dust jacket flap. "Illustrations by Pauline Baynes" on back dust jacket flap. Copyright page also credited Pauline Baynes. The title pages for "Smith of Wootton Major", "Farmer Giles of Ham", "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" credit Pauline Baynes, as well. The table of contents in this volume is full of errors. Very few of the contents begin on the pages indicated there. In "Introduction (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo)", it is clear that Christopher Tolkien wrote it as he refers to "my father" at least once in it.