Author: TOLKIEN J. R. R.
Title: The Lord of the Rings. [Complete set comprising The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King.]. [Second Edition, Second Impression.] REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE SECOND EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPERS
Description: Allen & Unwin,, [1967]. 3 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, Second Impression, with 3 folding maps in red and black, inscriptions on front free endpapers; red cloth, gilt backs, red tops, an unusually bright, crisp set in dustwrapper (one wrapper price-clipped), the wrappers mildly age-soiled on (predominantly white) rear panels. FIRST REVISED EDITION. 'A number of errors and inconsistencies that still remained in the text have been corrected, and an attempt has been made to provide information on a few points which attentive readers have raised…This edition offers this Foreword, an addition to the Prologue, some notes and an index of the names of persons and places' (Author's Foreword). Hammond A5.e.i; A5.e.ii; A5.e.iii respectively (recording the first impressions).

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