Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York, & London, 1992
ISBN 10: 0395606497 ISBN 13: 9780395606490
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket. First edition. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 482pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. First American edition with full number line ending in 1. Original price of $22.95 present on front flap. Jacket illustration by Alan Lee. Binding is tight and square. The History of Middle-Earth Volume IX.
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1992
Seller: Muir Books [Robert Muir Old & Rare Books], PERTH, WA, Australia
First Edition
Boards in d.j. 1st US Edition. 1st US ed., original black cloth boards with gilt lettering spine, dustjacket, colour frontis plate, b&w plates, pp xi, 482. Near-fine condition in near-fine d.j. In the first part of Sauron Defeated, Christopher Tolkien completes his account of the writing of The Lord of The Rings. The second part introduces 'The Notion Club Papers', published here for the first time. The book also includes a new version of the Numenorean legend, 'The Drowning of Anadune', and concludes with an elaborate account of the structure of the Adunaic language.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company (1984), Boston, 1996
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine to Fine. First American edition. 12 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. All volumes in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine and dark orange endpapers and pastedowns. All dust jackets with their correct prices. Several of the jackets with art from Alan Lee. Volume one illustrated with a full-page map and an in-text illustration; volume two illustrated with one plate; volume three with two full-page illustrations; volume four illustrated with seven full-page illustrations and one plate; volume five illustrated with a few in-text illustrations; volume six illustrated with a color frontispiece and with five full-page illustrations; volume seven illustrated with a color frontispiece and with eight full-page illustrations; volume eight illustrated with a double-sided color frontispiece and with eight full-page illustrations; volume nine illustrated with a color double frontispiece and with nine full-page illustrations; volume ten illustrated with a color frontispiece; volume eleven illustrated with five full-page illustrations; volume twelve illustrated with a few charts. Hammond and Anderson A21c (second issue with corrected US sheets); A22b; A23b; A24b; A25b; A26b; A27b; A28b; A29b. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. The complete History of Middle Earth, in the American first edition. A pleasing set. A name on each free front endpaper, toning to the edges of the textblock on volume one, volume one's front board with a few spots of discoloration; volume one's jacket with light edge wear, volumes three, four, and five's jacket flaps toned. Very Good or better to Near Fine.