Description
First American edition of The Lost Road and Other Writings, as edited by Christopher Tolkien.
Octavo, viii, 455pp, [1]. Black cloth, title in gilt on spines. A first printing with a full number line listed on copyright page. Solid text block, foxing along edges and covers, internally clean, near fine condition. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $18.95 retail price on front flap, faint shelf wear, near fine.
(Hammond and Anderson A25b)
This is Volume V of The 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.
