Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth by J. R. R. Tolkien; Edited with an Introduction, Commentary, Index, and Maps by Christopher Tolkien - 1980

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1980. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Houghton Mifflin, 1980-11-18. Hardcover. Good.

Stated First American Edition (first printing). Square spine, clean crisp pages, no writing or marks, no folded page corners. Foldout map bound into back of book is clean, crisp and unused. Covers are clean and unworn. Dust jacket is brittle with age and has numerous chips and rips along the edges. Not a remainder. Not a book club printing.

Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Book. Fine-. Hard Cover with Dustjacket. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with dustjacket : fine minus / good. Book: spine tips slightly soft; lower outer corners of binding are very very slightly worn. Jacket in new mylar protector; jacket has edge wear with small chips and short tears; price clipped at top corner of front flap. First American edition stated with full number line. Foldout map in back..

Houghton Mifflin, 1980. hardcover. Good. 0x7x9. 1980 used hardcover copy. First American Edition. Dust Jacket worn with tears on the edges. Price tag clipped. no stains or stickers, fast shipping with tracking number.

Houghton Mifflin, 1980-11-18. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.2000 9.0000 6.2000. Stated first American edition, first printing with full numberline. DJ is price-clipped and shows minor rubbing. Pages clean. Includes folded map at rear.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1980, First Printing., 1980. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Maps By Christopher Tolkien. Octavo, hardcover, fine in somewhat edgeworn at top front and, small chip on back corner, gold dj. . First printing of first American edition (no folding map on this one). 472 pp. A collection of narratives ranging in time from Elder Days of Middle-earth to end of the War of the Rings and comprising various elements as Gandalf's account of how he came to send the Dwarves to party at Bag-End--explores Middle earth languages, legends politics and kings.

Hardcover Cloth 472 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Good. Stated First American edition First printing 1980 with corresponding number line. Nice pale green boards with green and silver embossing shows off this tight copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Orange topstain. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with the considerable shelf wear - tears, stains, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Fold out map of The West of Middle Earth at the back endpapers.Classic hardback edition of this fascinating collection of stories, featuring Tolkien's own painting of the dragon Glaurung on the cover, which continues the tales of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and contains an alternative version of The Children of Hurin.Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Folding map. Contemporary owner gift inscription on front fly, else fine in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with a few tiny tears, and a slightly sunned spine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Folding map. Fine in price-clipped, about near fine dust jacket with gentle bumps at the spine ends and a bit of wear along the flap folds.

binding generally clean, straight & tight. Internals are clean, though pages have darkened which is common enough with many of these UK titles due to the paper stock selected. Unclipped wrapper has rubbing/dust dulling but no tears, chips or creases.
11/2023

Stein & Day, New York, 1972 (Second Printing- first published 1971), 8vo., 383. quarter red cloth over green paper boards
Book has a rear lower bumped corner and a bump to lower front. There also is some soiling(red) to the front and rear boards. Internals very clean. Unclipped jacket has a "scrunch" with accompanying "waves" to the lower rear with a crease extending to the flap fold. (please see images).
Inv. # 63596 TG* bds 7/2023

The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.

Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2

Little May and Her Friend Conscience. Used. Very Good+ Condition. RARE/SCARCE. ANTIQUARIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK. Thomas Nelson & Sons First Edition, 1876. Color front paper paste-down label is in good shape. Complete. Dark Blue, blind-stamped boards. Pocket-size. 70 pages plus adverts.

Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."

black cloth binding. First Printing. boards have light edgewear, corners curved in slightly. Unclipped wrapper has a 15 mm open tear on the front at the top, minor soiling. Overall, a very tidy copy of Russell's first novel.

Hulme, Keri: The Bone People. Louisiana State University Press, A tale of New Zealand. Stated United States First Edition, 1985. 450 pages, indexed. WINNER OF THE PEGASUS PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE BOOKER PRIZE. Used. Very Good/Very Good unclipped original $17.95 dust jacket. Summary: "The Bone People, first published in 1984 by Spiral, New Zealand. About this book: The Bone People is an unusual story of love. It is unusual in the telling, the subject matter, and the form of love that the story depicts. This is in no way a romance; it is filled with violence, fear, and twisted emotions. At the story's core, however, are three people who struggle very hard to figure out what love is and how to find it. Hulme won New Zealand's Pegasus Prize for Literature (1984) for The Bone People. Then the book went on to win the prestigious Booker Prize (1985).

Hardcover, Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York. 139p.This 1971 edition reprinted from the 1929 Mandrake. Silver titles on spine, Book for Libraries emblem blind-stamped lower right front board. Front pastedown has ghost of a bookseller's sticker; rear pastedown shows what appears to be an Army/Navy surplus stamp in red. A few tiny dark marks near the blind stamp and some soiling to top rear board. Minor blemishes withstanding, this is a very nice, collectible copy.Inv. # 32586 bds 2022

SIGNED. The Lord of the Rings. The Art of the Fellowship of the Rings. First Edition. First Printing. Houghton Mifflin (2002). Fine, as new, very large format hardcover with fine as new jacket. Signed by 4 of the film project artists: Bay Esitt, Gray Horsfield, Joehan, and Jeremy Bennet. Over 500 exclusive images from earliest sketches to full color paintings and storyboards. Carefully boxed for swift, safe shipping. Cannot ship outside the U.S. due to size and weight. Standard shipping only. 6-b