First edition. Octavo. Publisher’s green cloth, lettered gilt, in the original printed dustwrapper.
 
A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. Both the jacket and the book are spotted. There are four brown rustmarks to the lower panel of the dustwrapper, that have burned through to the lower cover of the book.
 
Contains Tolkien’s lecture ‘On Fairy Stories’ and his story “Leaf By Niggle”.