The Lord of the Rings: Collector's Edition

Tolkien, J.R.R.

ISBN 10: 0395193958 / ISBN 13: 9780395193952

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1987

Collector's edition, bound in full red leather decorated in blue and gilt, near fine hardcover in near fine matching slipcase with both showing hardly a trace of wear. Three books in one volume combine for over 1200 pages with a couple of maps including a foldout at rear. Lovely example of this popular collector's edition of the author's famed trilogy. Near fine in near fine slipcase. Seller Inventory # 34942

Synopsis:

A one-volume collector's edition boxed and bound in handsome red leatherette with gold, green, and blue foil stamping, two-color text setting, and large format fold-out maps containing the complete texts of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, and six appendices. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but ever he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. On his eleventy-first birthday Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest -- to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard, Merry, Pippin, and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.

About the Author:

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, but even as he studied these classics he was creating a set of his own.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Lord of the Rings: Collector's Edition
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: Later printing.