Judith Tolkien’s copy, inscribed by her, “Judy Crombleholme, Dudley, 5 - II - ‘90.”
 
Octavo. First UK edition. In publisher’s blue paper board binding and pictorial dustjacket. Gilt lettering to spine. A very good copy, page edges foxed, dust jacket slightly rubbed and spine sunned.
 
PROVENANCE: Judith Tolkien (1951-).
 
Men of Maize is a 1949 novel by Guatemalan Nobel Laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias, first published in the UK in the present edition in 1988. The novel is usually considered to be Asturias's masterpiece.