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Title: Roverandom Title Record # 2101881
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
Date: 2013-09-26
Type: COVERART
Language: English
Note:
  • The illustration (relying on cover image at Amazon 2016-12-18) is "Lunar Landscape" by the writer, titled along the bottom in Elvish script. It is one of five interior illustrations in the 1st US ed. (Houghton Mifflin, 1998), there as a plate facing p42.
  • "Lunar Landscape" was first published in J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator (1995), where editors Scull and Hammond "discussed these illustrations at length"; namely, all five Roverandom illustrations by the writer. --from the 1st US ed. (Houghton Mifflin, 1985), primarily pp. xx-xxi of Introduction (Roverandom)
Synopsis: Black line finished in coloured pencil, relatively true to the text, "It presumably depicts the moment when Roverandom and the Man-in-the-Moon, returning from their visit to the dark side, see 'the world rise, a pale green and gold moon, huge and round above the shoulders of the Lunar Mountains' (p. 46)." --Introduction, cited above
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Roverandom 2013-09-26 J. R. R. Tolkien HarperCollins (UK) 978-0-00-752328-3
£9.99?£: UK pound
192
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
chap J. R. R. Tolkien  
Roverandom 2013-09-26 J. R. R. Tolkien HarperCollins (UK) 978-0-00-737810-4
£3.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
chap J. R. R. Tolkien  
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