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Farmer Giles of Ham is a comic Medieval fable written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937 and published in 1949. The story describes the encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named Chrysophylax, and how Giles manages to use these to rise from humble beginnings to rival the king of the land. It is cheerfully anachronistic and light-hearted, set in Britain in an imaginary period of the Dark Ages, and featuring mythical creatures, medieval knights, and primitive firearms. It is only tangentially connected with the author's Middle-earth legendarium: both were originally intended as essays in "English mythology".
Title: Farmer Giles of Ham
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien (Illustrated by Roger Garland)
Publisher: Unwin Hyman Ltd, London. 1991.
ISBN: 0-04-440723-8
Softcover. Outers in good condition with only marginal shelf-rubbing. Inners slightly tanned and foxed, but further clean. Binding tight. Overall condition: good.