Mr. Bliss by J.R.R. Tolkien [U.K. FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1982 • George Allen Unwin

Mr. Bliss written & illustrated by J.R.R. Tolkien FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1982] GEORGE ALLEN UNWIN True UK 1st of this classic picture book Tolkien wrote for his own children, published post-humously.  Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. Light shelf wear to an overall pristine dust jacket; now housed in a new archival quality jacket protector. Book itself is near mint; looks and reads like new.   The first ever edition of Tolkien's illustrated tale about the eccentric Mr Bliss, a man notable for his immensely tall hats and for the girabbit in his garden, whose whimsical decision to buy a motor car quickly becomes a catalogue of disasters.