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.] BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE SECOND EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Description: Allen & Unwin,, [1967]. 3 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, Second Impression, with 3 folding maps in red and black; red cloth, gilt backs, red tops, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrappers, the wrappers rubbed at extremities and mildly age-soiled on (predominantly white) rear panels. With uniform personal bookplate on front free endpapers. 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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