[The History of Middle-Earth]: The Book of Lost Tales Part I; The Book of Lost Tales Part II; The Lays of Beleriand; The Shaping of Middle Earth: The Quenta, The Ambarkanta, and the Annals; The Lost Road and Other Writings: Language and Legend before 'The Lord of the Rings'; The Return of the Shadow: The History of the Lord of the Rings Part One; The Treason of Isengard: The History of The Lord of the Rings Part Two; The War of the Ring: The History of The Lord of the Rings Part Three; Sauron Defeated: The End of the Third Age (The History of the Lord of the Rings Part Four), The Notion Club Papers and The Drowning of Anadûnê; Morgoth's Ring: The Later Silmarillion Part One The Legends of Aman; The War of the Jewels The Later Silmarillion Part Two The Legends of Beleriand; The Peoples of Middle-Earth; Together with the Earliest 'Silmarillion' and the First Map
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company (1984), 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. 12 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. All volumes in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine and dark orange endpapers and pastedowns. All dust jackets with their correct prices. Several of the jackets with art from Alan Lee. Volume one illustrated with a full-page map and an in-text illustration; volume two illustrated with one plate; volume three with two full-page illustrations; volume four illustrated with seven full-page illustrations and one plate; volume five illustrated with a few in-text illustrations; volume six illustrated with a color frontispiece and with five full-page illustrations; volume seven illustrated with a color frontispiece and with eight full-page illustrations; volume eight illustrated with a double-sided color frontispiece and with eight full-page illustrations; volume nine illustrated with a color double frontispiece and with nine full-page illustrations; volume ten illustrated with a color frontispiece; volume eleven illustrated with five full-page illustrations; volume twelve illustrated with a few charts. Hammond and Anderson A21c (second issue with corrected US sheets); A22b; A23b; A24b; A25b; A26b; A27b; A28b; A29b. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. The complete History of Middle Earth, in the American first edition. A pleasing set. Very Good or better to Near Fine / Near Fine to Fine. Item #000015968
A name on each free front endpaper, toning to the edges of the textblock on volume one, volume one's front board with a few spots of discoloration; volume one's jacket with light edge wear, volumes three, four, and five's jacket flaps toned.
Price: $1,450.00
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