The Lord of The Rings >>>> A SUPERB SIGNED CENTENARY EDITION - FIRST PRINTING THUS - SIGNED & DATED BY ALAN LEE <<<<

J.R.R. Tolkien

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ISBN 10: 0261102303 ISBN 13: 9780261102309

Published by HarperCollins, UK, 1991

Language: English

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A near fine UK centenary edition first printing thus - in a near fine unclipped dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED & DATED BY ALAN LEE - Pictures available upon request.

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Title: The Lord of The Rings >>>> A SUPERB SIGNED CENTENARY EDITION - FIRST PRINTING THUS - SIGNED & DATED BY ALAN LEE <<<<
Publisher: HarperCollins, UK
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0261102303
ISBN 13: 9780261102309
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Alan Lee
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Illustrator(s)

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS J.R.R. TOLKIEN ILLUSTRATED BY ALAN LEE 2ND EDITION BOOKS 1 TO 6, SINGLE VOLUME This edition contains fifty full colour illustrations specially commissioned from artist Alan Lee to commemorate the centenary of J.R.R. Tolkien's birth. It also includes Tolkien's appendices and maps. Books 1 through 6 in single volume. Hard cover. Dust cover + attached ribbon bookmark. 2nd edition. Includes: - ANNALS OF THE KINGS AND RULERS - THE TALE OF YEARS - FAMILY TREES (HOBBITS) - CALENDARS - WRITING AND SPELLING - INDEXES

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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

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