[First Edition] Essays Presented to Charles Williams, 1st edition 1947, scarce book and rare in a dust jacket. J R R Tolkien [Used - Near fine]

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Essays Presented to Charles Williams, 1st edition, Oxford University Press 1947. Contributors: Dorothy Sayers, J R R Tolkien, C S Lewis, Owen Barfield, Gervase Mathew and W H Lewis (C S Lewis' elder brother), the inklings, a group of which Charles Williams had also been a member. These essays were to have been presented to Charles Williams on his leaving Oxford for London, but with his untimely death in May 1945 they were published posthumously in 1947. This was the first time 'On fairy-stories', by J R R Tolkien, were published. Book near fine, excellent spine and boards, gilt titles bright, no signatures, inscriptions or book plates, light toning to pages. text clean throughout. A scarce …