Description
First American edition of The History of The Lord of the Rings, complete in four volumes.
Octavo, [four volumes], x, 497pp; vi, [2], 504pp; xi, [1], 476pp; xi, [1], 482pp. Black cloth, title in gilt on spines. All four volumes are first American editions, published by Houghton Mifflin of Boston between 1988 and 1992. Each volume is a first printing with a full number line listed. Solid text blocks, foxing along edges and covers, internally clean, near fine condition. In the publisher’s dust jackets, retail price on front flaps, faint shelf wear, near fine.
(Hammond and Anderson A26b, A27b, A28b, A29b)
A well-presenting set for any Tolkien collector.
This quartet of books focuses on the events that take place during J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and are Volumes VI through IX of the larger History of Middle-Earth series. The History of Middle-Earth was compiled and edited by Christopher Tolkien from 1983 to 1996. The full series includes: The Book of Lost Tales Part One and Part Two, The Lays of Beleriand, The Shaping of Middle-Earth, The Lost Road and Other Writings, The Return of the Shadow, The Treason of Isengard, The War of the Ring, Sauron Defeated, Morgoth’s Ring, The War of the Jewels, and The Peoples of Middle-Earth.
