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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.

First American edition. Fold out map at back. 365. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. Fine in very good unclipped dust jacket Fold out map at back. 365. 1 vols. 8vo

VG/VG. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt (slightly rubbed & sunned, scattered spotting) in unpriced dustwrapper (a little rubbed & nicked, splits to lower foldopver (tape repaired on reverse), a few marks); pp. 366 (last blank) with 2 maps (one folding). A very good copy. Allegedly the true first edition, printed by William Clowes & Sons as an export edition for international distribution before the first UK issue, with attendant uncorrected errors.

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.