The Father Christmas Letters. Edited by Ballie Tolkien. Illustrated by the Author. London: George Allen, 1976. First Edition. Folio. Pictorial glazed boards. Light scuff marks to boards, faint smudged name to front free endpaper; contents pages in nice bright condition.

A collection of the letters send by J R R Tolkien to his children between 1920 and 1943, purporting to be from Father Christmas.

Edited by Ballie Tolkien, second wife of his youngest son, Christopher, and vividly illustrated throughout.