The Lord of the Rings. [DELUXE EDITION]

J.R.R. TOLKIEN

ISBN 10: 0261103687 / ISBN 13: 9780261103689

Published by London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2002

DELUXE EDITION, fourth impression. Three parts in one volume; leather-bound with slipcase; hardcover; octavo (25 x 15.5 cm); xiv, 1137, [1] pp. English text printed on India Paper. Beautifully bound in publisher's quarter black leather; cloth sides; gilt titles and designs to spine; gilt motif to front cover; leather slipcase with gilt motif to front; all page edges gilt; map endpapers printed in red and black; some diagrams in the text; index at rear in double columns. Condition: NEAR FINE. Covers and contents very well-preserved. Slipcase with slight brown marking on the inside. Without previous ownership markings. An excellent copy. Notes: Rare deluxe edition finely bound in quarter leather with leather slipcase. Three parts in one book, consisting: Part I. The Fellowship of the Ring; Part II. The Two Towers; Part III. The Return of the King. Seller Inventory # MFR1223

Synopsis:

Like new. Never read.

Review: This is a single-volume edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, in which the hobbit Frodo and his elfish friends get swept up in a mighty conflict with the dark lord Sauron (who owes much to proud Satan in Paradise Lost), the monstrous Gollum, the Cracks of Doom, and the awful power of the magical Ring. The book's characters--good and evil--are recognizably human, and the realism is deepened by the magnificent detail of the vast parallel world Tolkien devised, inspired partly by his influential Anglo-Saxon scholarship and his Christian beliefs. (He disapproved of the relative sparseness of detail in the comparable allegorical fantasy his friend C.S. Lewis dreamed up in the Chronicles of Narnia, though he knew Lewis had spun a page-turning yarn.) It has been estimated that one-tenth of all paperbacks sold can trace their ancestry to J.R.R. Tolkien. But even if we had never gotten Robert Jordan's The Path of Daggers and the whole fantasy genre Tolkien inadvertently created by bringing the hobbits so richly to life, Tolkien's epic about the Ring would have left our world enhanced by enchantment. --Tim Appelo

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Lord of the Rings. [DELUXE EDITION]
Publisher: London: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine