Bilbo's Last Song (at the Grey Havens)

Overview:

  • Title: Bilbo's Last Song (at the Grey Havens)
  • Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Year: 1990
  • ISBN-10: 0395538106
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Price: $14.95
  • Pages: 32
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Chapter Book
  • Title Reference: Bilbo's Last Song
  • Notes: 1st US ed.
    • LCCN: 89-48659 -- "Bilbo's last song : at the Grey Havens"
    • Titles fashioned thus on two lines with font change: -- Bilbo's Last Song (At the Grey Havens) :: title page of book -- Bilbo's Last Song (at the Grey Havens) :: heading of poem p29
    • 16 interior leaves paginated [1]-32, namely title page to Notes.
    • Interior art includes non-narrative decorations title page, copyright page, all pages to p27; and narrative illustrations thus: -- 1 double-page illus. of Bilbo's last journey, both endpapers -- 13 half-page illus. of Bilbo's last journey, odd-number pp 3-27; all but the first paired with two lines of the poem, even-number pp 4-26 -- 26 small illus. of The Hobbit, bottom of p[2]-27
    • Unillustrated back pages -- "Bilbo's Last Song (at the Grey Havens)", p29, the whole poem at once -- "Notes on the Pictures", p30-32 (by M. Joy Hill?)
    Copyright page notes "Text copyright (c) 1974 M. Joy Hill" and illus (c) 1990 Baynes. Since the poem is by Tolkien and the only other text is the Notes on the Pictures, it appears that the pictures were planned, or even completed as b/w drawings, in 1974.