Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. Book. Illus. by Alan Lee. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean very carefully used copy. Ribbon marker. This copy has just the barest hint of soil to the edges of the text block.The 60.00 jacket has some light edgewear else fine. A monster at 1200+ pages with virtually NONE of the wear you would expect from a volume this size. Very much a gift quality copy of the complete trilogy with over 100 pages of appendices and other background material of Maddle-Earth. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY.

Synopsis

The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by philologist and Oxford University professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit (1937), but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in stages between 1937 and 1954, much of it during World War II. After the success of The Hobbit , Tolkien’s publisher asked that he produce a sequel. Although written as one big work comprised of six books, The Lord of the Rings was broken into three separate volumes because of post-World War II paper shortages and size and price considerations. The print run of the first editions was very small: 3,000 copies for The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), 3,250 copies for The Two Towers (1954), and 7,000 copies for The Return of the King (1955). The Lord of the Rings went on to become one of the best-selling novels ever, with more than 150 million copies sold.

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On Aug 15 2020, a reader said:

This is one of the most engaging, enjoyable, and creative books I have ever read. The way Tolkien creates a new world from scratch, new languages, new races. It is a work of art. And the fact that this book can be enjoyed by young children and adults alike makes it stand out among the works of fiction that fill our libraries these days. I would recommend these books to anyone who has not already read them.

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Bookseller: Pat Cramer, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 044625
Title: The Lord of the Rings
Author: Tolkien, J. R. R
Illustrator: Alan Lee
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
ISBN 10: 0395595118
ISBN 13: 9780395595114
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1991
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I have been selling used and rare books internationally since 1985.I tend to list modern fiction because that is what i know the most about.I specialize on horror and suspense fiction because these are two areas that i enjoy most and because they are two areas that I know the most aboutI am not a generalist dealer but I have been known to list a small percentage of anything that looks interesting to me, fiction and non-fiction, to bring new customers to my site.

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