The Lord of the Rings

Tolkien, J R R

ISBN 10: 0261103202 / ISBN 13: 9780261103207

Published by Harpercollins Publishers, 1994

About this Item

VGC.HarperCollins,1994. Seventh printing of this edition (7 9 8). One Volume Edition With The Appendices And Index. Green hardback (gilt lettering to the spine, small dents, nicks and scratches on the edges of the cover and spine) with Dj (small creases, nicks and scratches on the outer and inner edges of the Dj cover). Illustrated with b/w maps. Nice and clean pages with small ink marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges, some creases and small nicks on the edges of the pages. Please note that the last 4 pages of the book have been teared off including 2 maps. The book is in VGC with some shelf wear and also missing 2 maps. 1156pp including Note on the text, foreword to the second edition, appendices I to IX, indexes. Price clipped. Heavy book (approx. 1.7 Kg).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lord of the Rings
• Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0261103202
• ISBN 13: 9780261103207
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 5th or later Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 14.9W x 22.8H x 6.9D centimeters 14.9 centimeters width by 22.8 centimeters height by 6.9 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1050 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Synopsis

This special 50th anniversary hardback edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic masterpiece includes the complete revised and reset text, two-fold out maps printed in red and black and, unique to this edition, a full-colour fold-out reproduction of Tolkien's own facsimile pages from the Book of Mazarbul that the Fellowship discover in Moria. Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fantasy and epic adventure has touched the hearts of young and old alike. Over 100 million copies of its many editions have been sold around the world, and occasional collectors' editions become prized and valuable items of publishing. This one-volume hardback edition contains the complete text, fully corrected and reset, and features for the very first time the pages from the Book of Mazarbul, illustrations done by Tolkien and intended for inclusion in the famous 'Bridge of Khazad-dum' chapter. Also appearing are previously unpublished family trees and two, full-size fold-out maps. Sympathetically packaged to reflect the classic look of the original, this revised edition of the bestselling hardback will prove irresistible to collectors and new fans alike.

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