The Tree and Leaf by J. R. R. Tolkien. Unwin Books. (1964). First printing thus: "First published in this edition 1964" stated with no listing of subsequent printings. 4 3/4" x 7 1/4" 92 pages plus 4 pages ads Paperback.  Moderate to heavy cover edgewear. The bit of bumping to the corners of the book. Reading creases to the spine. Otherwise, no previous owner markings. No tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding shows some looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. sJL17a

"Fairy-stories are not just for children, as anyone who's read Professor Tolkien will know. The taste for them is a natural one, at any age. In his essay On 'Fairy-stories', which forms the first part of this book, he rescues them from the academics on the one hand, the philologists and anthropologists, and, on the other, from those who would relegate them to 'juvenilia'. The second part contains, as an apt and beautiful illustration, one of Professor Tolkien's earlier short stories, 'Leaf by Niggle'. Like the later and more generous, 'Lord of the Rings', it shows his mastery of the art of 'sub-creation', the power to give to fantasy 'the inner consistency of reality.' " - A blurb in the book