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The History Of Middle-Earth [1st Eds, Vols 1-4]

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By J.R.R. Tolkien [Edited by Christopher Tolkien]

First four volumes in Tolkien’s encyclopaedic History

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  • Increasingly Scarce First Printings [George Allen & Unwin, London, 1983-86] of the first four volumes of Christopher Tolkien’s epic History [12 volumes in all], thus being:
    • The Book Of Lost Tales 1 [1983]; [plate, vi]; 298 pages; blue cloth, gold titling to spine, white mark on front board, bottom corner impacted, blue topstain, a near-fine copy; in the excellent dustjacket, torn with repair at bottom corner; ISBN: 0 04 823238 6 / 0048232386
    • The Book Of Lost Tales 2 [1984]; [vi], 386 pages; brown cloth pink topstain, a fine copy; in like dustjacket; ISBN: 0 04 823265 3 / 0048232653
    • The Lays Of Beleriand [1985]; poems!; [plate, vi], 394 pages; green cloth, topstain, specks on base block, a near-fine copy; in like dustjacket, bumped at base with minor creasing, bookseller sticker over price [unclipped]; ISBN: 0-04-823277-7 / 0048232777

    • I write alliterative verse with pleasure – Tolkien, 1955

    • The Shaping Of Middle-Earth; The Quenta, The Ambarkanta & The Annals together with the earliest Silmarillion & the first Map [1986]; [vi], 380, [12 blank] pages; burgundy cloth, black topstain, a fine copy; in like dustjacket; ISBN: 0 04 823279 3 / 0048232793
  • Jacket design by Marilyn Carvell

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