J.R.R. Tolkien - Brieven van de Kerstman. Samenstelling Baillie Tolkien. Vertaald door Max Schuchart

J.R.R. Tolkien - Brieven van de Kerstman. Samenstelling Baillie Tolkien. Vertaald door Max Schuchart - Utrecht / Antwerpen - Uitgeverij Het Spectrum - 1976 - 1st edition - [46] pp - Hardcover - 22,5 x 28 cm. - Design: Studio Spectrum.

Dutch translation of The Father Christmas Letters (1976); facsimiles of the stories and illustrations that the author of The Lord of The Rings wrote and drew in the 1920s for his children John, Michael, Christopher and Priscilla. Illustrated in COLOUR. Hardcover first edition. Cf. Hammond G; Dutch 7 (p.391).

¶ Tolkien (1892-1973) surprised his offspring with, among other things, a self-made Goblin Alphabet, with which some of the letters could be deciphered. The documentation starts in 1925 and ends in 1938. During this period he was professor of Anglo-Saxon language at the University of Oxford.