THE SILMARILLION {The British / UK 1st Edition} F / NF

A Fine/Fine bright copy. This is the British / UK 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Stated First published in 1977, and printed by Billing & Sons on the copyright page. The jacket is price clipped. George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., London, UK, 1977. A Fine bright, crisp, clean book in a Near Fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy of this British First Edition / First Impression. The book is Fine and unmarked. The foldout map is present and in Fine condition inside the rear endpaper as called for. Top edge stained blue as called for. The points for the True First Export Edition on p. 330 and 352 have been corrected. The Dust Jacket is in Near Fine condition: price clipped; tiny surface chip to spine, top rear corner lightly worn; bottom rear corner has a 1.4 cm split with corresponding crease of 5 cm at bottom edge, else Near Fine (and placed in fresh brodart jacket sleeve after photographing). Overall, a Very nice copy. Includes a number of shorter works besides The Silmarillion, Genealogies, The Sundering of the Elves, Note on Pronunciation, Index of Names, Appendix, Elements in Quenya and Sindarin names plus a color map of the Realms of the Noldor and the Sindar. Guy Gavriel Kay spent a year editing this book at the request of Christopher Tolkien. PLEASE SEE our other items for more Tolkien, C S Lewis, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, G K Chesterton, Le Carre, Atwood and Rowling and many more, including signed modern 1st editions. WE BUY BOOKS Please contact us if you have books or a collection to sell. ROBUST SHIPPING.…