Posted by Peter Ceresole on March 10, 2012 at 00:38:43 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Totally off topic - Tolkien's 1938 letter! posted by Owen Roberts on March 09, 2012 at 15:59:01:
the title published in 1933 was “Der Kampf um die Insel”. or “The Battle for the Island”
It's on offer on German eBay now, priced at €12.31. And if the cover illustration is any guide you're right, the Margaret Gill illustrations are beautifully stylised, very typical of high class drawings of the time.
Of course 'Kampf" just means 'battle' or 'struggle' and was a very common word- still is.