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hardcover, no dj - very good - uitstekende staat

F-/F-. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt (prev. owner's name to FFE, a trifle rubbed & marked) in dustwrapper priced £4.95 net in UK only (slightly rubbed); pp. 366 (last blank) with 2 maps (one folding). A near fine copy. This edition was printed by Unwin Brothers Limited, with both errors corrected.

VG/VG. 8vo. original navy blue cloth gilt (a trifle rubbed & marked, some scattered spotting, prev. ownership details in pencil to FFE) dustwrapper priced £4.95 net in UK only (a trifle rubbed & nicked, sunning to spine); pp. 366 (last blank) with 2 maps (one folding). A relevant newspaper clipping is tipped to RFE. A very good copy of the first UK trade edition printed by Billing & Sons Ltd, but with both errors uncorrected.

Royal octavo (17 x 25cm). Cloth. In dust jacket. (367pp). With coloured endpaper maps and 18 full-page colour plates. Fine condition Size: Royal Octavo

Hardback, approx 9 x 6 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Spine a little sunned, NOT Price clipped). Cover clean and bright, No penned inscriptions. Else generally clean and tight copy. 365pp. With large fold out map at back. Tolkien?s the Silmarillion, the history of The First Age in Tolkien?s world.

First Printing. A Very Fine copy in black paper covered boards, in a Very Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 296pp. With Illustrations by Alan Lee. Map of Middle Earth at end. Q19026

FIRST EDITION, full-page map printed in black and red, folding map tipped in at rear (this with a faint spot to verso), pp. 365, 8vo, original dark blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge blue, very faint foxing to textblock edges, a couple of faint spots to flyleaf, faintly-visible erasure of pencilled ownership inscription to top corner of same, dustjacket with a touch of fading to the backstrip panel, very good. (Hammond & Anderson A15b)

8vo., First Edition Domestic, First Impression, with full-page map in red and black, 5 full-page pedigrees in the text and large folding map in red and black; original navy blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, fore-edge lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Crisp copy of the first impression (printed by Billing) of the first domestic edition (with price on dustwrapper fold-in). Hammond, p.221.

First edition, first impression. This story collection contains the mythology of Middle-earth, hinted at but not fully explored in The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-55). Tolkien worked on these stories intermittently between the First World War and his death in 1973, after which his son Christopher gathered and published them here. A domestic and export issue were published simultaneously. This copy, from the domestic issue printed by Billing & Sons, was inadvertently issued by the publisher in an unpriced dust jacket from the export issue. Hammond & Anderson A15(a/b). Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered and stamped with heraldic device of Lúthien Tinúviel after a drawing by Tolkien, top edge blue. With dust jacket, illustrated with further devices after Tolkien. Map of the Realms of the Noldor and the Sindar facing p. 120 and large folding map of Beleriand and the Lands to the North at end, both printed in red and black. Endpapers faintly browned, else clean; jacket spine sunned, rubbing to edges, issued without printed price: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.

London: Folio Society, 2001-2003, Folio Society Numbered Limited Edition. Full Wassa goatskin leather binding with hand woven pure Indian silk covered boards created exclusively for Folio Society Members, limited to 1750 individually numbered copies, in full leather slipcases blocked in gold, this set numbered 2-6 to all 3 works. The extended set comprises 'The Hobbit' (seventh printing thus, 2002); 'The Fellowship of the Ring' (seventh printing thus, 2002); 'The Two Towers' (sixth printing thus, 2001); 'The Return of the King' (seventh printing thus, 2002); 'The Silmarillion' (fourth printing thus, 2003). ' The Silmarillion' is edited by Christopher Tolkien. 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy is illustrated by Ingahild Grathmer drawn by Eric Fraser, 'The Hobbit' by Eric Fraser and 'The Silmarillion' by Francis Mosley. Calligraphy for all volumes is by John Andrew and the bindings are by Smith Settle of Otley. Provenance: original letter from the Folio Society owner included. Approximately 9 ½ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine – very good condition – gilt titles and decoration. Joints – very good condition. Corners – very good condition. Boards – very good condition – quarter leather, silk cloth boards, very minor marks. Page edges – very good condition – gilt top edge, others clean. Slipcases – very good condition – minor marks. See above and photos. Internally Hinges – very good condition – sound. Paste downs – very good condition – maps or plain (Silmarillion). End papers – very good condition – maps or plain (Silmarillion). Title – very good condition – unread. Pages – very good condition – unread. Binding – very good condition – attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 2001-3 Binding: Hardback