The fellowship of the ring
J. R. R Tolkien
Hardcover
(Houghton, Jan. 1, 1967)
Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Good, Presumed 2nd and Revised Edition, No date c.[1967]. 423pp. Coloured folding map in original folds and excellent condition. Good clean tight sound square, no booklpate or inscription to front, neat inscription to rear pastedown endpaper, partly concealed by dustwrapper, no other ownership marks of any kind. Lacking title-page (removed),so no date, which is presumed from stated 'Second Edition' to dustwrapper upper blurb, and 'Revised Edition' to upper wrapper. Front pastedown creased in pasting by publisher. Bound in gilt lettered red cloth stained to lower board and rubbed to spine, housed in matt green dustwrapper featuring the ring and eye of Sauron, 2 closed tears, 1 to tail of lower hinge 4.5cm, another to lower corner. Top edge red no bleeding. The volume in hand forms the first part of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and follows The Hobbit.