The Lord of the Rings

Overview:

  • Title: The Lord of the Rings
  • Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Year: 1977
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
  • Price: $25.00
  • Pages: 423+352+440
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Omnibus
  • Title Reference: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Notes:
    • A boxed set of three volumes of The Lord of the Rings in hardcover editions.
    • Bound in black cloth and silver lettering with red "Eye of Sauron" on covers, cased in a red slipcase.
    • "Second Edition" on the title page and "Revised Second Edition" on the front jacket flap of each volume.
    • 14th printing of Fellowship, 13th of Two Towers and Return by number lines.
    • Each volume has a fold-out map in the back initialed "C.J.R.T." for Christopher Tolkien.
    • Each volume has a $9.95 price and jacket art by Robert Quackenbush, credited on the back jacket flap.
    • Date is given as "0267" on each front dust jacket flap; this was the date the second edition was first published.
    • Price from verifier's records.
    • ISBN's for each book: Fellowship 0-395-08254-4; Two Towers 0-395-082555-2; Return 0-395-08256-0.
    • LCCN for each book: Fellowship 67-12274; Two Towers 67-12276; Return 67-12275.