Bilbo's Last Song
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Illustrator: Pauline Baynes
Signed!
TOLKIEN, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel]. Bilbo’s Last Song. (At the Grey Havens). Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. London: Unwin Hyman [1990]. 4to, 32pp. Color pictorial boards. Color pictorial endpapers; color illustrations on nearly every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. With a bookplate signed by the artist, Pauline Baynes, laid in!
First edition. This charming song, written by Tolkien sometime in the 1920’s was first produced as a poster illustrated by Pauline Baynes in 1974 and then included as a song in Donald Swann’s The Road Goes Ever On. This charming edition features many more full-color illustrations from Baynes, making it a much more fully envisioned version than what had been created 16 years earlier for the poster.