LETTERS FROM FATHER CHRISTMAS; (Includes Unpublished Letters & Drawings) by Tolkien, J.R.R - 1995

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. Quarto, Navy blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine. . Text clean and bright. Beautifully illustrated in color. 157 pp. plus advertising at rear. Tolkien's illustrated letters from Father Christmas sent to his children. This revised edition contains much new material, including letters and pictures not previously published.

Some of the letters tell "how all the reindeer got loose and scattered resents all over the place; how the accident-prone Polar bear climbed the North Pole and ell through the roof of Father Christmas's house into the dining room; how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it all into the back garden; how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the cves beneath the house!" (from front flap).