The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings)The Two Towers; Being the Second Part.'The Return of the King: being the Third Part; 3 volumes

Tolkien, J. R. R.

ISBN 10: 0395082544 / ISBN 13: 9780395082546

Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1967

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3 volumes, black, decorated cloth, 2nd edition,(revised) volumes 2 & 3 being the 3rd printing and volume 1 being the 4th printing, with new forward by author. folding map at rear of all volumes, dust jacket price all volumes is $6.50.CONDITION: top of spine of d.j. sunned on all volumes making titles on 1 &2 unable to be read,.light wear to foot of dust jacket spines in all vols., 3 lines in ink with former owners name and address on front blank of vol.1. Publisher's box not present.all vols in protective mylar jackets.

Seller Inventory # 1125558447

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings)The Two Towers; Being the Second Part.'The Return of the King: being the Third Part; 3 volumes
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
• Publication Date: 1967
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395082544
• ISBN 13: 9780395082546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Cover illustration by Robert Quackenbush
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Printing: 3rd Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Children's /Juvenile's
  • Science Fiction

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Synopsis

Large print hardback edition of the first volume of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure, The Lord of the Rings, complete with fold-out map.

Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power – the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring – the ring that rules them all – which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.
In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.
Now available in large print and impossible to describe in a few words, JRR Tolkien’s great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. By turns comic and homely, epic and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scene and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail.

Review

‘An extraordinary book. It deals with a stupendous theme. It leads us through a succession of strange and astonishing episodes, some of them magnificent, in a region where everything is invented, forest, moor, river, wilderness, town and the races which inhabit them.’
The Observer

‘Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century.’
Sunday Telegraph