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First American edition. Fold out map at back. 365. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. Fine in very good unclipped dust jacket Fold out map at back. 365. 1 vols. 8vo. Seller Inventory # 60909
Title: The Silmarillion. Edited by Christopher ...
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Publication Date: 1977
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First American edition.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: F-. Fifth Impression. F-/F-. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt (prev. owner's name to FFE, a trifle rubbed & marked) in dustwrapper priced £4.95 net in UK only (slightly rubbed); pp. 366 (last blank) with 2 maps (one folding). A near fine copy. This edition was printed by Unwin Brothers Limited, with both errors corrected. Seller Inventory # 034111
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Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Ninth Printing. F-/VG+. 8vo. original green cloth gilt in dustwrapper (slightly rubbed & nicked); pp. 366 (last blank) with 2 maps (one folding). A near fine copy. From the collection of Geoffrey Farmer, with his bookplate. Seller Inventory # 017535
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Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition, Second Issue. VG/VG. 8vo. original navy blue cloth gilt (a trifle rubbed & marked, some scattered spotting, prev. ownership details in pencil to FFE) dustwrapper priced £4.95 net in UK only (a trifle rubbed & nicked, sunning to spine); pp. 366 (last blank) with 2 maps (one folding). A relevant newspaper clipping is tipped to RFE. A very good copy of the first UK trade edition printed by Billing & Sons Ltd, but with both errors uncorrected. Seller Inventory # 034117
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Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Hardback, approx 9 x 5.5 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine. Blue top edges. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Spine slightly faded. Rubbed along edges. Small split to top end of spine. Handling marks. Not price clipped). Cover clean and bright, Page edges tanned. Else generally clean and tight copy. 365pp. With large fold out map at back. Tolkien?s the Silmarillion, the history of The First Age in Tolkien?s world. Seller Inventory # 100121
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Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Condition: Fine. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Sept. 1 (holiday sale item)* first printing of the first American edition, with the complete number row; 365 pp., folding map; Hardcover, fine in a fine dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Seller Inventory # ZB1328982
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Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
8vo. [6], 380 pp. Numerous plates, maps. Black cloth, gilt lettering (slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. (very slight shelfwear), NF/NF copy. First edition, 1st printing of this uncommon Volume IV of the History of Middle Earth. This work includes the chronological and geographical structures of te legends of Middle-Earth and Valionor, as well as the only account ever given of the structure of the imagined universe. Seller Inventory # 62349
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Seller: Anthony Smith Books, London, LND, United Kingdom
8vo. Seventh impression of this edition. First published in 1977. Original quarter bound in blue, stamped in gold foil on grey boards, and housed in a matching slipcase. Navy silk marker ribbon. Colour frontispiece showing Tolkien's painting of Hallas of Manwe (Taniquetil) appears for the first time. Folding map of Beleriand and the Lands to the North, printed in red and black, at rear. Bought in the original shrink-wrap which has been removed in order to catalogue the book. As new. This anniversary edition includes a fourteen page letter written by the author in 1951 containing his account of the mythology of Middle-earth. Seller Inventory # 8648
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Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. First Printing. A Very Fine copy in black paper covered boards, in a Very Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 296pp. With Illustrations by Alan Lee. Map of Middle Earth at end. Q19026. Seller Inventory # Q19026
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Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Hardback. 9 x 5.75 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. Grey top edge. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Light rubbing along edges Handling marks. Not price clipped.). Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 380 pp. With b/w plates. The fourth volume of the earliest of Tolkien?s Middle Earth books. the chronology of the First Age takes shape with myths and legends, some in Anglo-Saxon, with the earliest version of the Silmarillion., Seller Inventory # 100123
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Seller: Thompson Rare Books - ABAC / ILAB, Hornby Island, BC, Canada
*** A Note to our America Customers on Tariffs: All of Our Books ship from Canada and are Duty and Tariff Free. We do all the Paperwork in advance and the Tariff Rate on our books is Zero%. Book Shipments to the USA are uninterrupted *** (illustrator). First Edition (& 1st printing). First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth titled & decorated in gilt on spine panel, top page edges stained blue. 365 pp, map of The Realms of the Noldor and the Sindar inserted facing page 121, large folding map of Beleriand and the Lands to the North tipped in at rear, both maps printed in red and black. The correct first printing of the first edition: "First published in 1977" on copyright page with no statement of reprinting. Printed by William Clowes & Sons, the dust jacket with no price (and not price clipped!) on the lower front flap. Technically, this is the UK edition, Export issue; these copies were printed first for export to Canada and precede the UK Domestic issue which was printed by Billing & Sons by offset lithography from this edition. The jacket is correct as well, the Export edition was issued with an unpriced jacket and the later UK Domestic issue has a price of £4.95 on the jacket flap. The issue points for THE SILMARILLION are actually very simple: The UK Export edition precedes all others, and is identified by the points mentioned above. There was a worldwide release date of September 15, 1977; copies of the Export issue were printed first in order to be available in Canada on the date of publication. There are several other so-called issue points: "missing full stop on page 330 line 4 after "Feanor"; "Lord of the Waters" and "King of the Sea" in italics on p 352 line 39"; but these errors are true of both the Export and the Domestic issue (the Domestic issue being reproduced by offset lithography from the export issue). The only real issue points that matter are the printer listed on the copyright page (it must be Clowes) and the unpriced jacket. CONDITION: Mild fading to top page edges, touch of fading to top edges of the cloth; ink inscription on front free endpaper (Christmas, 1977). Light rubbing and a few tiny marks to the jacket. A bright, very good or better copy; quite nice, map intact. Note: The red lettering on the spine panel is very prone to fading, heer it is unfaded, crisp and bright. The Silmarillion is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic works, edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay. The Silmarillion, along with J. R. R. Tolkien's other works, forms an extensive, though incomplete, narrative that describes the universe of Eä in which are found the lands of Valinor, Beleriand, Númenor, and Middle-earth within which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place. After the success of The Hobbit, and prior to the publication of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's publisher requested a sequel to The Hobbit, and Tolkien sent them an early draft of The Silmarillion. But through a misunderstanding, the publisher rejected the draft without fully reading it, with the result that Tolkien began work on "A Long Expected Party", the first chapter of what he described at the time as "a new story about Hobbits", which became The Lord of the Rings. The Silmarillion comprises five parts. The first part, Ainulindalë, tells of the creation of Eä, the "world that is". Valaquenta, the second part, gives a description of the Valar and Maiar, the supernatural powers in Eä. The next section, Quenta Silmarillion, which forms the bulk of the collection, chronicles the history of the events before and during the First Age, including the wars over the Silmarils which gave the book its title. The fourth part, Akallabêth, relates the history of the Downfall of Númenor and its people, which takes place in the Second Age. The final part, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age, is a brief account of the circumstances which led to and were presented in The Lord of the Rings. [Wiki]. Seller Inventory # 313759
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