B: Books Edited, Translated, or with Contributions by J. R. R. Tolkien

B1 Oxford Poetry

Simpkin Marshall and co. ltd.

• 1915 viii, 72p. 19.1-19.4 × 12.6-13.0 cm
  • Goblin Feet pp.64-5

B2 A Spring Harvest

Oxford University Press

• 1918 80p. 18.4-18.7 × 12.4-12.8 cm
  Include three paragraph prefactory note by J.R.R. Tolkien.

B3 Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose

Oxford University Press

• a. First edition with glossary 1922 xlviii, 292, 168p 18.3 × 12.6 cm ISBN0-19811391-9
  Include following work of Tolkien.
  • A Middle English Vocabulary part 2(168p)
• b. First paperback impression 1975 xlviii, 464p 18.6 × 12.2 cm ISBN0-19871093-3

B4 A Northern Venture

Swan Press

• 1923 vi, 26p. 15.8 × 9.8 cm
  • The Eadigan Saelidan: The Happy Mariners pp.15-16
  • Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon pp.17-19
  • Enigmata Saxonica Nuper Inventa Duo p.20

B5 Leeds University Verse

Swan Press

• 1924 64p. 17.0 × 14.0 cm
  • An Evening in Tavrobel p.56
  • The Lonely Isle p.57
  • The Princess Ni p.58

B6 The Year’s Work in English Studies 1923

Oxford University Press

• 1924 276p. 21.9-22.0 × 14.0-14.1 cm
  • Philology: Genaral Works pp.[20]-37

B7 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Oxford University Press

• a. First edition 1925: Edited by J.R.R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon. xxviii, 212p. + 2 plates. 19.1-19.3 × 12.6-12.8 cm Dust-jacket.
  Tolkien was responsible for the text and glossary, ans E. V. Gordon for the greater part of the note.
• b. Second edition, hardcover copies 1967: xxviii, 212p. + 2 plates.. 19.1-19.3 × 12.6-12.8 cm Dust-jacket.
• c. Second edition, paperback copies 1968: ii, [2], iii-xxviii, [2], 240p. 20.3 × 13.5 cm ISBN0-19811486-9

HarperCollins

• (A) 1975 Grafton edition 148p. ISBN0-04821035-8
• (A) 1996 edition 176p. ISBN0-26110259-1

Ballantine Books (Del Rey Books)

• 1988 Del Rey; Reissue edition. 224p. ISBN0-34527760-0

B8 The Year’s Work in English Studies 1924

Oxford University Press

• 1924 328p. 21.4-22.0 × 14.0-14.4 cm.
  • Philology: Genaral Works pp.[26]-65

B9 Realities

Gay and Hancock Limited

• 1927 32p. 16.7 × 10.3 cm.
  • The Nameless Land pp.24-5

B10 The Year’s Work in English Studies 1925

Oxford University Press

• 1927 356p. 20.9-22.1 × 14.0-14.3 cm.
  • Philology: Genaral Works pp.[32]-66

B11 A New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District

Oxford University Press

• 1928 [2], xxx, 168p. 22.2 × 14.0 cm.
  Includes foreward by J.R.R. Tolkien, pp.[xiii]-xviii.

B12 Essays and Studies

Oxford University Press

• 1929 136p. 21.4 × 13.8 cm.
  Include essay by J.R.R. Tolkien below.
  • Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad” pp. [104]-26

B13 Report on the Excavation of the Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire

Oxford University Press

• 1932 viii, 140p. +42plates. 25.6-26.1 × 17.1-17.5 cm.
  Include essay by J.R.R. Tolkien below.
  • Appendix I:The Name “Nodens” pp. 132-7

B14 Transactions of the Philological Society

David Nutt (A. G. Berry)

• 1934 iv, 108p. viii p 21.4 × 13.9 cm.
  Include essay by J.R.R. Tolkien below.
  • Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve’s Tale pp. [1]-70

B15 Song’s for the Philologists

The Department of English at Unicersity College, London

• 1936 iv, 32p 21.0 × 16.3 cm.
  Include theirteen poems by J.R.R. Tolkien.

B16 The Reeve’s Tale

Oxford

• 1939 16p 22.4 × 14.2-14.3 cm.

B17 Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment

George Allen & Unwin

• a. New edition, 1940: xlii, 11-192p 18.5 × 12.4 cm.
  • ‘Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of “Beowulf” ’ pp. [viii]-xli
  is included.
• b. New edition, 1950: xliv, 196p 18.3 × 12.0 cm.
• c. Revised edition, paperback impression 1980: xliv, 196p 18.5 × 12.0 cm.

B18 Sir Orfeo

The Academic Copying Office, Oxford

• 1944 ii, 18p 21.1 × 13.4 cm.
  Include note by J.R.R. Tolkien.

B19 Essays presented to Charles Williams

Oxford University Press

• a. First edition: 1947 xvi, 148p. +1 plate. 21.5 × 13.9 cm. ISBN0-83692768-0
  Include essay by J.R.R. Tolkien below.
  • On Fairy-Stories pp. [38]-89

Grand Rapid, Michigan

• b. First American edition: 1966 xvi, 148p. 21.4 × 13.8 cm.
  

B20 Essais de Philologie Moderne

l’Université de Liège

• 1953 ii, 18p 24.7 × 16.4 cm.
  Include essay by J.R.R. Tolkien below.
  • Middle English ‘Losenger’: Sketch of an Etymological and Semantic Enquiry pp. [63]-76

B21 Essays and Studies

John Murray (Publishers) Ltd.

• 1953 vi, 114p 21.5 × 13.8 cm.
  Include essay by J.R.R. Tolkien below.
  • The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son pp. [1]-18

B22 Pearl

Oxford University Press

• a. First edition 1932: Edited by E.V. Gordon. lx, 168p. +1 plate. 18.2 × 12.2 cm. ISBN0-19811379-X
  • Form and Purpose pp. xi-xix
• b. First paperback edition 1980: Edited by E.V. Gordon. [4], lx, 168p. 18.5 × 11.9 cm.

B23 The Ancrene Riwle

Burns & Oates

• a. First edition 1955: Translated by M.B. Salu. xxviii, 196p. 19.7 × 12.9 cm.
  Includes two-paragraph.
  • preface p. v.

University of Exeter Press

• 1990 edition: Translated by M.B. Salu. Introduction by Gerard Sitwell. 222p. ISBN0-85989341-3

B24 The Old English Apolonius of Tyre

Oxford University Press

• 1955: Edited by Peter Goolden. xxxviii, 76p. 21.9 × 13.9 cm.
  Includes one-paragraph prefactory note.
  • preface p. [iii].

B25 Ancrene Wisse

Oxford University Press

• 1962: Edited by J.R.R. Tolkien. [2], xviii, 224p. +1 plate. 21.4 × 13.8 cm. ISBN0-19722249-8
  • preface p. [iii].

B26 Angles and Britons

Oxford University Press

• 1963: viii, 168p. +1 plate. 21.6 × 13.8 cm.
  O’Donnell Lectures Uniersity of Wales.
  • English and Welsh pp. [1]-41.

B27 Winter’s Tales for Children

MacMillan

• a. First edition, 1963: Edited by Caroline Hillier. viii, 200p. 23.5 × 17.4 cm.
  Includes two poems,
  • Once upon a Time pp. [44]-5.
  • The Dragon’s Visit pp. [84], 86-7

St Martin’s Press

• b. First (American) edition, 1965: Edited by Caroline Hillier. viii, 200p. 23.5 × 17.3 cm.

B28 The Road Goes Ever on

Houghton Mifflin (U.S.)

• a. First edition 1967: xii, 68p. 27.9 × 21.2 cm.
  • The Road Goes Ever On
  • Upon the Hearth the Fire is Red
  • In the Willow-meads of Tasarinan
  • In Western Lands
  • Namárië (Farewell)
  • I Sit beside the Fire
  • A Elbereth Gilthoniel
  • Errantry
• f. Second Houghton Mifflin edition 1978: xiv, 82p. 27.8 × 21.4 cm. ISBN 0-39524758-6

George Allen & Unwin

• b. First British edition 1968: xii, 68p. 28.0 × 21.5 cm.
• e. Second Allen & Unwin edition 1978: xiv, 82p. 27.6 × 21.8 cm.

Ballantine Books (U.S.)

• c. Ballantine Books edition 1969: xii, 68p. 27.8 × 21.1 cm. ISBN0 0-34524733-7
• d. Ballantine Books edition, second (first paperback) impression 1975: xii, 68p. 28.0 × 20.9 cm.

HarperCollins

• (A) Hardcover 1978 2nd edition. 90p 28 × 22 cm ISBN0-04784011-0
• (A) Hardcover 2002 edition. 96p ISBN0-00713655-2

B29 Attacks of Taste

Gotham Book Mart

• 1971: Compiled & Edited by Evelyn B. Byrne & Otto M. Penzler. xii, 66p. 23.4 × 15.5 cm.
  Includes one-paragraph statement, p.43.

B30 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo

George Allen & Unwin

• a. First edition 1975: Translated by J.R.R. Tolkien. 152p. 23.4 × 15.5 cm. ISBN0 04 821035 8
  • Preface by Christopher Tolkien
  • Introduction
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Pearl
  • Sir Orfeo
  • Glossary
  • Appendix on Verse-forms
  • Gawain's Leave-talking
• d. Unwin paperback edition 1979: Translated by J.R.R. Tolkien. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. x, 150p. 19.5 × 12.8 cm. ISBN0 04 821039 0

Houghton Mifflin (U.S.)

• b. First American edition 1975: Translated by J.R.R. Tolkien 160p. 23.4 × 15.4 cm. ISBN0-395-21970-1
• c. First Paperback edition 1978: Translated by J.R.R. Tolkien 160p. 23.4 × 15.2 cm. ISBN0-395-26469-3

Ballantine Books (U.S.)

• e. Ballantine Books edition 1980: Translated by J.R.R. Tolkien x, 166p. 17.8 × 10.7 cm. ISBN0-345-27760-0

HarperCollins

• (A) 1996 Paperback edition 150p ISBN0-261-10259-1

B31 A Tolkien Compass

Open Court

• a. First edirion, hardcover coppies, 1975: Edited by Jared Lobdell. vi, 202p. 20.3 × 13.3 cm. ISBN0-87548-316-X
  • ‘Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings’ pp.[153]-201
• b. First edirion, Paperback coppies, 1975: Edited by Jared Lobdell. vi, 202p. 20.3 × 13.3 cm. ISBN0-87548-303-8

Ballantine Books (U.S.)

• c. Del Ray Books edirion, 1980: Edited by Jared Lobdell. vi, 218p. 17.8 × 10.6 cm. ISBN0-345-28855-6

B32 J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography

George Allen & Unwin

• a. First edirion, 1977: by Hamphry Carpenter. xiv, 290p. +8 plates. 23.3 × 15.4 cm. ISBN0 04 928037 6
  Includes excerpts from previously unpublished letters, poetry, and prose.
• c. First paperback edirion, 1978: by Hamphry Carpenter. 288p. +4 plates. 19.6 × 12.8-19.2 × 12.6 cm. ISBN0 04 928039 2
• e. Revised edirion, 1987: by Hamphry Carpenter. 288p. +4 plates. 19.6 × 12.8 cm. ISBN0-04-928070-8

Houghton Mifflin (U.S.)

• b. First American edirion, 1977: by Hamphry Carpenter. xii, 292p. +8 plates. 23.3 × 15.4 cm. ISBN0-395-25360-8
• f. Trace paperback edirion, 1988: by Hamphry Carpenter. xii, 292p. +8 plates. 20.8 × 13.9 cm. ISBN0-395-48676-9
• (A) Paperback edition, 2000: by Hamphry Carpenter. 304p 21 × 14 cm. ISBN0-61805702-1

Ballantine Books (U.S.)

• d. Ballantine Books edirion, 1978: by Hamphry Carpenter. viii, 328p. +8 plates. 17.9 × 10.5 cm. ISBN0-345-27256-0
• (A) 1978 Reissue edition. by Hamphry Carpenter. ISBN0-34532729-2

HarperCollins

• (A) Reissu edtion, 1992: 288p. 20 × 13 cm. ISBN0-26110245-1
• (A) New edtion, 2002: 384p. 18 × 11 cm. ISBN0-00713284-0

B33 The Inklings

George Allen & Unwin

• a. First edirion, 1978: by Hamphry Carpenter. xvi, 288p. +8 plates. 23.4 × 15.5 cm. ISBN0 04 809011 5
  Includes excerpts from previously unpublished letters, poetry, and prose.
• c. First paperback edirion, 1981: by Hamphry Carpenter. xiv, 290p. +4 plates. 19.7 × 12.9 cm. ISBN0 04 809013 1

Houghton Mifflin (U.S.)

• b. First American edirion, 1979: by Hamphry Carpenter. xvi, 288p. +8 plates. 23.3 × 15.4 cm. ISBN0-395-27628-4

Ballantine Books (U.S.)

• d. First American paperback edirion, 1981: by Hamphry Carpenter. xii, 324p.+8plates. 17.8 × 10.5 cm. ISBN0-345-29552-8

HarperCollins

• (A) 1997 Paperback edition. by Hamphry Carpenter. 304p. ISBN0-261-10347-4
• (A) 2006 Paperback edition. by Hamphry Carpenter. 304p. ISBN0-007-74869-8

B34 J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller

Correl University Press

• 1979: 328p. 22.9 × 14.9 cm. ISBN0-8014-1038-X
  • ‘Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford, 5 June 1959’ pp. 16-32

B35 The Old English Exodus

Oxford University Press

• 1981: Translation and Commentary by J.R.R. Tolkien. x, 86p. 21.6 × 13.6 cm. ISBN0 19 811177 0

B36 Finn and Hengest

George Allen & Unwin

• a. First edition, 1982: Edited by Allen Bliss. xii, 180p. 20.7 × 13.9 cm. ISBN0 04 829003 3
  Lectures of 1920’s at Oxford.

Houghton Mifflin (U.S.)

• b. First American edirion, 1983: Edited by Allen Bliss. xii, 180p. 20.7 × 13.9 cm. ISBN0-395-33193-5

HarperCollins

• (A) 1998 edition: Edited by Allen Bliss. 180p. 20 × 13 cm. ISBN0-261-10355-5

Tolkien's World

HarperCollins

• (A) 1993 Paperback edition. 144p. 29 × 22 cm. ISBN 0-261-10307-5
• (A) 1993 Hardcover edition. 144p. ISBN 0-261-10276-1

MJF Books

• (A) 1993 Hardcover edition. 144p. 29 × 23 cm. ISBN 1-56731248-9

Realms of Tolkien

HarperCollins

• (A) 1996 Paperback edition Illustrated by Alan Lee, John Howe, Ted Nasmith, Inger Edelfeldt. 144p ISBN 0-06105532-8
• (A)(BL) 1996 Hardback edition: 135p. 29 cm. ISBN 0-26110344-X
• (A) 1997 Paperback edition Illustrated by Alan Lee, John Howe, Ted Nasmith, Inger Edelfeldt. 144p 29 × 22 cm. ISBN 0-26110345-8

A Middle English Reader and Vocabulary

Dover Publications

• (A) 2005 Paperback edition. Edited by Kenneth Sisam 450p. "Includes notes on each extract, appendices, and an extensive glossary by J. R. R. Tolkien." (from Introduction of Dvoer Publications) ISBN 0-48644023-0

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

HarperCollins

• (A) 2009 Deluxe edition.(2009/5/5) Edited by Christopher Tolkien. 23.8 x 15.6 x 4.4 cm 384p. Quarterbound with slip case. ISBN 0-007-31725-5
• (A) 2009 Hardcover edition.(2009/5/5) Edited by Christopher Tolkien. 22.4 x 14.6 x 4.2 cm 384p. ISBN 0-007-31723-9

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• (A) 2009 Hardcover edition.(2009/5/5) Edited by Christopher Tolkien. 21.8 x 14.6 x 3.2 cm 384p. ISBN 0-54727342-8

The Book of Jonah

Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd

• (A) 2009 Paperback(2009/6/20). Translated by J.R.R.Tolkien. 104p.ISBN 0-23252767-9

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