Robert S. Blackham        
Tolkien's Oxford.
Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2013. 9780752447292  144 pages.
Softcover, measuring approximately 5" x 9.25", displays very light shelfwear. Traces of the removal of bookplate can be seen on verso of front cover. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. Numerous b&w photos and area maps.
"J. R. R. Tolkien lived much of his adult life in the city of Oxford. This book is not the story of his life as others have coerced it, rather a snapshot of some of the places where he lived, worked, socialised and visited in and around Oxford. During this time he wrote "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings," books which were destined to change English literature in the later part of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century.
This book covers the days as a student at Exeter College and, after the First World War, his time working on the Oxford English Dictionary in the Old Ashmolean Building. It moves on through his working life as a professor at Pembroke College and later at Merton College, including his friendship with C. S. Lewis at Magdalen College and family outings on the River Cherwell and to the great ancient monuments around Oxford."