Tolkien, J.R.R.; Lee, Alan (2002) ‘Poems from The Lord of the Rings’, UK signed first edition

J.R.R. Tolkien (2002) ‘Poems from the Lord of the Rings‘, UK first edition, first printing, published by Harper Collins. This is the first revised edition. Signed by illustrator Alan Lee on the title page.

Provenance: signed to us in person at a promotional event in London in 2018.

Condition: a fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Alan Lee won an Academy Award for the conceptual art behind Peter Jackson’s LOTR film adaptation. He is a legend and ranks highly along his great predecessors Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac and Kay Nielsen from the Golden Age of illustration.