THE GREAT TALES NEVER END: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout with colour reproductions of J. R. R. Tolkien's manuscripts, letters, drawing and maps, as well as photographs of Christopher Tolkien. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine dustwrapper, that is free from fading, loss or tears.

'This collection of essays by world-renowned scholars, together with family reminiscences, sheds new light on J.R.R. Tolkien's work, his son Christopher's unique gifts in communicating and interpreting that work and the debt owed to Christopher by many Tolkien scholars who were privileged to work with him.' (publisher's blurb).