The Silmarillion by Tolkien, J.R.R - 1977

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. First American edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [6], 7-365, [1] pp. Bound in green cloth with gold decorations stamped on the spine and the front board, silver and gold lettering on the spine, pink topstain, one plate (black and white map), fold-out map bound in at the rear. Price of $10.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. First printing of the first American edition. Hammond A15.c. A sharp copy of this book relating many stories of Middle Earth prior to the events in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the first of many posthumous works based on Tolkien's voluminous unpublished writings.