The Lord of the Rings
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1967]. Fold-out maps illustrated by Tolkien in rear. Second editions, revised, second printings. Publisher's black cloth with tri-colored metallic stamping, in Robert Quackenbush dust jackets ($6.00). 423; 352; 440pp. 9" x 6" All volumes near fine in very good, edge-worn dust jackets with some moderate wear and chipping to spine tips, with small tape repair jacket verso of The Fellowship, in mylar covers, housed in very good, lightly worn publisher's slipcase. Item #242619
TOLKIEN'S LAST REVISIONARY WORD
Beginning as a sequel to The Hobbit and eventually growing into something more expansive than Bilbo's journey to the Lonely Mountain, Tolkien's 1954 publication of The Fellowship of the Ring marked a foundational moment in twentieth-century high fantasy. Step out the door and onto the road with Frodo, a ring tucked in his pocket, as elves, dwarves, and men draw together to save their home from the evil that looms. More than seventy years after its publication, The Lord of the Rings has doubtlessly changed the lives and kindled the imaginations of generations of readers young and old, beloved as ever.
With hundreds of individual textual changes, this edition represents the final authoritative revision made by Tolkien to one of the most influential literary texts of the twentieth century. Presented here is a handsome copy of the second printing of that Second Edition (1966), housed in the publisher's original slipcase. Despite a copyright date of "1966" or more often "1965", the Houghton Mifflin revised edition was first published in 1967, following the 1966 George Allen & Unwin first hardcover revised edition.
[Hammond & Anderson, A5f].
Price: $750.00