TOLKIEN, J.R.R. “The Silmarillion” [Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977] Fine 1st Printing

TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Silmarillion.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. First American Edition, stated first printing, with full number line and the “Father Giles of Ham” first printing error (for “Farmer Giles of Ham”) on the “Books by J. R. R. Tolkien” page. Octavo. Publisher’s green cloth stamped in gilt on the upper board. Complete with the large folding map at the rear, here entirely untouched and unopened. In the original unclipped dust jacket. Book Fine. Jacket Near Fine with light rubbing at the base of the spine panel. A particularly clean example of Tolkien’s posthumous mythology of Middle-earth, edited and assembled by Christopher Tolkien from his father’s extensive manuscripts. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.