Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Monday, 6 April 2026

Letters From Father Christmas

These are the various UK versions of Tolkiens Letters From Father Christmas.




Published by Harper Collins unless otherwise stated.

Books

*The Father Christmas Letters
1976
George Allan and Unwin
Hardback
ISBN: 9780048231307

The Father Christmas Letters
1978
Unwin
Paperback
ISBN: 9780048231482

*The Father Christmas Letters
1990
Unwin
Paperback
ISBN: 9780048231482 (the same ISBN as the 1978 book)
Re-issued: 1993
Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780261102552


Father Christmas Letters
1994
Hardback
Three miniature books in slipcase
ISBN: 9780261103177


*Letters From Father Christmas
1995
Collins
Hardback
ISBN: 9780395741320
Includes removable letter.

*Father Christmas Letters
1998
Hardback
Miniature single volume
ISBN: 9780261103696

Letters From Father Christmas
1999
Hardback
ISBN: 9780007663712
Book People version
*ISBN: 9780007663712
with Ted Smart logo on spine (Ted Smart was the Owner of The Book People)



Letters From Father Christmas
2003
Eastern Press
Hardback (Leather Bound)
ASIN: B07KX3CC2Q
Spine accented with 22kt gold, gilded page ends.
7 3/8” x 9 5/8”

Letters From Father Christmas
2004
Hardback
*ISBN: 0261103865/9780261103863
2006 reprint
ISBN: 0007205228/9780007205226
Book People version
ISBN: 000777916X/9780007779161

*Letters From Father Christmas
2009
Paperback
ISBN: 9780007280490

*Letters From Father Christmas
2012
Hardback
ISBN: 9780007463374

Letters From Father Christmas - Deluxe Edition
2019
Hardback
ISBN: 9780008327729

*Letters From Father Christmas - Centenary Edition
2020
Hardback
ISBN: 9870008406844

*Letters From Fathers Christmas
2023
Hardback
ISBN: 9780008627577


Audio

*Letters From Father Christmas
1999
Unabridged
Cassette
Read by Derek Jacobi
ISBN: 9780001024762

Letters From Father Christmas
2000
Mariner Books, US
Unabridged
Cassette
Read by Derek Jacobi
ISBN: 9780618087846

Letters From Father Christmas Set
2000
Book and Cassettes
Book is the 1999 revised release
Cassettes are Unabridged read by Derek Jacobi

Letters From Father Christmas
2004
Unabridged
CD
Read by Derek Jacobi
ISBN: 9780007195527

Letters From Father Christmas Gift Set
2006
Book and CD
Book is the 2004 release
CD is Unabridged read by Derek Jacobi
ISBN: 9780007206735


Others

*Newspaper Article
Sunday Telegraph Magazine
12th September 1976
Professor JRR Tolkien and the letters he sent to his children as Father Christmas.  2 and a half pages of illustrated stamps, letters and photos shown.  One of his children reminisces about receiving the precious artefacts.


        

Jigsaw Puzzle
1977
International Polygonics

Advent Calendar
Bodleian Libraries

Greetings Cards
Bodleian Libraries





Sunday, 7 May 2023

Non Tolkien Books with Tolkien Content

These are books which are not specifically by or about Tolkien or his writings, but include some or part of his fictional writings. It does not include any of his non fictional writings such as letters, articles, academic or interviews. It only includes full books so  does not include booklets, journals, magazine, periodicals etc.

There are also excerpts published in magazines see Tolkien Magazines.




Oxford Poetry
1915 (also various subsequent releases)
Poem: Goblin Feet

The Book of Fairy Poetry
1920
Illustrated by Warwick Goble
Poem: Goblin Feet

Fifty New Poems for Children
1922
Blackwell
Poem: Goblin Feet

Realities an Anthology of Verse
1927
Edited by G S Tancred
Poem: The Nameless Land

Wonder Tales from Fairy Isles
1929
Poem: Goblin Feet

The Open Door to Poetry
1931
Poem: Goblin Feet

A Pocketful of Ryhmes
1946
Edited by Kathryn Love
Poem: Sing all ye Joyful

An Inheritance of Poetry
1948
ISBN: 9780395065372
Poem: Goblin Feet, Hobbit excerpt: Riddles, Song: Road Goes Ever on, Poem: Lullaby for Bilbo Baggins

Just for Fun (Humorous Stories and Poems)
1948
Selected by Elva Smith and Alice Hazeltine
Published by Lothrop
Hobbit extract Riddles in the Dark

Possible 1965 version
ASIN: B00DPBVL36

Anthology of Children’s Literature
Johnson, Sicles, Sayers
Hobbit extract Riddles in the Dark

3rd Edition
1959


4th Edition
1970

5th Edition
1985

Favourite Poems Old and New
1957
Poems: Goblin Feet, Roads Go Ever On And On

Prebound
ISBN: 9780385062497
*alternate cover

Trade
ISBN: 9780385076968

alternate cover

Poems of Magic and Spells
1960
Edited by William Cole
Illustrated by Peggy Bacon
Poem: Goblin Feet

Golden Treasury of Childrens Literature
1962
Bryna and Louis Untermeyer
Originally published in 10 volumes
1st Chapter of the Hobbit
Illustrated by Robert J Lee




Volume 5 Wonder Lands


Children’s Treasury of Literature in Colour
1966
ISBN: 9780601073337
Single compilation book of Golden Treasury of Childrens Literature


*Golden Pleasure Books
1966


Golden Press
1972
ISBN: 9780307165220


Littlehampton
1972
ISBN: 9780601073337

WH Smith version
1978
ISBN: 9780600387930

alternative cover


Golden Press
1986
ISBN: 9780307665225


Winter’s Tales for Children 1
1965
Poems: The Dragons Visit, Once Upon a Time

Roads To Follow
Cathedral Reader 1964
Dick and Jane Series
Book 3 Part 1 Curriculum Foundation Series
Poem: Roads Go Ever Ever On




Revised Cover


Large Type Version


*The Young Magicians
1969
Ballantine
ISBN: 9780345017307
Poems: Once Upon a Time, The Dragons Visit

The Isle of Gramarye
1970
Errantry and Shadows Bride (from Adventures of Tom Bombadil)
SBN: 246973579

A Cavalcade of Dragons
1970
Poem: A Hoard of Dragons
ISBN: 9780809824137

To Turn A Stone
1972
Excerpt from the Hobbit: Riddles in the Dark
ISBN: 9780663252114

*Stories and Rhymes
BBC Schools Pamphlet
1973
The Hoard verse
Illustrated by Sarah Silcock


A Book of Dragons
1974
Edited by Roger Lancelyn Green
The Hoard verse, also has dedication to Tolkien by C S Lewis
ISBN: 9780140306064


Hist Whist (Poems of Magic and Mystery, Witches and Ghosts)
1975
Collected by Dennis Saunders
Illustrated by Kathy Wyatt
Shadows Bride
ISBN:9780237448356

Pan
1977
ISBN: 9780330252058

English, A Literary Foundation Course
1975
Robert Stewart Fowler
ISBN: 9780044280330
Excerpt from Hobbit: Mount Doom

Once Upon a Time
1975
Progress Publishers
USSR
Excerpt from the Hobbit
Illustrated by F. Lemkul

*Kingdoms of Sorcery
1976
Doubleday
Edited by Lin Carter
Excerpt from Lord of the Rings: The Bridge of Khazad-dum
ISBN: 9780385099752

Fantastic Imagination
1977
ISBN: 9780380009565
Hobbit Excerpt: Riddles in the Dark

*Skylark Ghost and Monster Stories
1980
BCA
Illustrated by Julie and Adam Heller
Hobbit Excerpt: Riddles in the Dark

Fairy Poems
1980
Edited by Daisy Wallace
ISBN: 9780823403714
Poem: Goblin Feet

*Everyman’s Book of Nonsense
1981
ISBN: 9780460044790
Edited by John Davies
Poem: The Man in the Moon Stayed up too Late

*Tales from Beyond the Grave
Extract from Lord of the Rings: The Mirror of Galadriel

1982
Octopus
ISBN: 9780706417982

1989
Gallery
ISBN: 9780831786281
Same cover printed on the boards

Over the Rainbow: Tales of Fantasy and Imagination
1983
Illustrated by Sarah Silcock
ISBN: 9780861782956
Hobbit Excerpt: Riddles in the Dark
*StMichael version

Also published as Magical Tales in 1986
Marylebone Books
Same content and ISBN

Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural
Hobbit Excerpt: Riddles in the Dark

1985
Doubleday
ISBN: 9780880295185

*1992
Warner Books
ISBN: 9780751500301

2002
Little Brown
ISBN: 9780316859967

The Oxford Book of Story Poems
Compiled by Michael Harrison
Poem: The Man in the Moon Stayed up too Late
Illustrated

Original
Oxford University Press
1990
ISBN: 9780192760876
*alternate cover

Revised
Oxford University Press
1999
ISBN: 9780192762122

Reprint
Oxford University Press
2006
ISBN: 9780192763440

*The Well Versed Cat
1993
Running Press
Edited by Virginia Mattingly
Illustrated by Mimi Vang Olson and Robert Goldstrom
Mini Book
ISBN: 9781561383115
Poem: Cat

*The Book of Dragons
1995
Selected and illustrated by Michael Hague
ISBN: 0688108792
Hobbit excerpt: Smaug


The Poetical Cat
1995
Edited by Falicity Bast
ISBN: 9780374235338
Poem: Cat - titled Cat on the Mat

*UK


US

Fantasy Stories
Illustrated by Douglas Carrell
Hobbit Excerpt: The Trolls

*1996
Robinson
ISBN: 9781854874528

Random House Book of Fantasy Stories
1997
US Re-release
ISBN: 9780679885283

*The Puffin Treasury of Children's Stories
1997
Hobbit excerpt: Inside Information
Illustrated by Chris Riddell
ISBN: 9780670876655






alternate cover

*The Puffin Twenteth-Century Collection of Stories
1999
Hobbit excerpt Roast Mutton
Illustrated by Chris Riddell
ISBN: 9780670885237

The Little Big Book of Chills and Thrills
Hobbit excerpt

Rizzoli
1999
ISBN: 9780941807500

Welcome Books
2005
ISBN: 9781932183856

The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy
2000
ISBN: 9780130212801
Hobbit excerpt: Riddles in the Dark

*100 Best Poems For Children
2001
ISBN: 9780670894901
Hobbit Poem: Far over the Misty Mountains
Hardback and Paperback same cover

*Poetry Speaks to Children
2005
ISBN: 9781402203299
Song: Fred’s Song in Bree
Also includes a CD, although Tolkien poem is not on the CD.

10th Anniversary Edition
2015

Tales Before Narnia
2008
ISBN: 9780345498908
Poem: The Dragons Visit