| The Lord Of The Rings [; The Fellowship Of The Ring; The Two Towers; TheReturn Of The King] - 1st E |
| by: Tolkien, J. R. R. |
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Synopsis: A most attractive set of Tolkien's three Landmark Books: (1) TheFellowship of the Ring, one of 2,500 first impression/first state copies bound by Jarrold and Sons, very Nearly Fine condition in alike dust-wrapper; (2) The Two Towers, 3,250 first impressions, faded top-stain, light foxing of page edges, in about Fine dust-wrapper; (3) The Return of the King, one of 7,000 First Edition/First Printing copies, Near Fine with light foxing to page edges in about Fine dustjacket, First State copy with signature mark '4' present on page 49 and lines 'sagging' in the middle versus being straight in the second state [Hammond/Anderson]. All volumes complete with complete with folded maps of Middle Earth tipped in onto recto, back free endpaper with minor professional paper restoration. All 1st impression dust-wrappers with original prices, free of prior owner inscriptions or markings. Rather scarce in this condition; Tolkien began The Lord of the Rings between 16 and 19 December 1937, three months after The Hobbit was published and George Allen & Unwin were encouraging Tolkien, against his inclination, to write a sequel. The rest is history. As C. S. Lewis commented (from the dust-jacket) : "If Ariosto rivalled it in invention (in fact he does not) he would still lack its heroic seriousness. No imaginary world has been projected which is at once so multifarious and so true to its own inner laws; none so seemingly objective, so disinfected from the taint of the author's merely individual psychology, no so relevant to the actual human situation yet so free from allegory. And what fine shading there is in the variations of style to meet the almost endless diversity of scenes and characters - comic, homely, epic, monstrous, or diabolic." |
| Book Type: Rare First Editions Published in London Edition: First Edition; First Printing Binding: Hardcover Condition Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Keywords: collectible rare out-of-print, the hobbit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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