The Book of Lost Tales: History of Middle-Earth Vol 1 by J. R. R Tolkien ISBN 13: 9780261102026

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 8vo. Frontispiece. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BOSTON : 1984. [ First published in 1983; this is the first Harper Collins edition.]. Hardback. Black hardcover; green lettered spine. In green printed series-style dust-jacket (price-clipped). Frontispiece. No owner name or internal markings. Tight, bright and clean. VERY GOOD INDEED in like jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. (v), 297 pages. See Hammond/Anderson. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping** [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History, Dorothy L. Sayers, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, and The Inklings. ]

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London: London: HarperCollinsPublishers (Harper Collins) 1991 Second Impressions 5 vols 8vo ISBN 0-261-10202-8 et al, 1991 The History of Middle-Earth Vols. 1-5. A Very Fine uniform matching set of the Harper Collins hardcover reprint series, all in Fine Dust Wrappers, protected in Brodart sleeves. This set is comprised of The Book of Lost Tales Parts I & II, The Lays of Beleriand, The Shaping of Middle-Earth, and The Lost Road and Other Stories. These five volumes together comprise the bulk of J.R.R. Tolkien's early writings on Middle-Earth, from The Book of Lost Tales, the first major work of imagination by J.R.R. Tolkien, begun in 1916-17 when he was 25 years old, taking in such sustained works as the Lay of the Children of Hurin, and the Lay of Leithian; writings detailing the mythological background of Middle-Earth, such as the Ambarkanta or Shape of the World; th e Annals of Valinor & Beleriand which chronicle the First Age of Middle-Earth; the earliest versions the Silmarillion;… Read More