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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket and illustrations by Alan Lee (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '1' on copyright page. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£18.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, with foldout map at rear as called for. 315pp, lavishly illustrated by Alan Lee. Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of 'The Children of Hurin' will reunite fans of 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' with Elves and Men, dragons and dwarves, eagles and orcs, and the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien. There are tales of Middle earth from times long before 'The Lord of the Rings', and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West, lands where Treebeard once walked, but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World. In that remote time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron, in the North and the tragedy of Turin and his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the Elves. Their brief and passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Hurin, the man who had dared to defy and to scorn him to his face. Against them he sent his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Into this story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, the Dark Lord and the Dragon enter in direly articulate form. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulated the fates of Turin and Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled. The earliest versions of this story by J.R.R. Tolkien go back to the end of the First World War and the years that followed, but long afterwards, when 'The Lord of the Rings' was finished, he wrote it anew and greatly enlarged it in complexities of motive and character: it became the dominant story in his later work on Middle earth. But he could not bring it to a final and finished form. In this book his son Christopher Tolkien (1924-2020), has constructed, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. John Howe; (illustrator). First Thus. (vi) 503 pp. Light wear on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; bumped on the upper left of the front cover; no interior markings. This story collection contains: Part One: The Fall of Numenor and The Lost Road: The Early History of the Legend; The Fall of Numenor: The Original Outline; The First Version of the Fall of Numenor; The Second Version of The Fall of Numenor; The Further Development of the Fall of Numenor; The Lost Road: The Opening Chapters; The Numenorean Chapters; and The Unwritten Chapters; Part Two: Valinor and Middle-Earth before The Lord of the Rings: The Texts and Their Relations; The Later Annals of Valinor; The Later Annals of Beleriand; Ainulindale; The Lhammas; Quenta Silmarillion; and Part Three: The Etymologies: Appendix: The Genealogies; The List of Names; and The Second Silmarillion Map; followed by an Index. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by the author (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, second impression, published later the same year. Top of page block dyed dark blue as issued. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised,some faint spotting to page fore edges, not price clipped (£4.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, all text and maps complete, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 365pp, illustrated. The forerunner to THE LORD OF THE RINGS, which gives an account of the Elder Days when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwells in Middle Earth, and the High Elves make war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. Scarce in this first impression.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine (see description). Photo Cover (illustrator). First Edition. -----------( 1st printing of the First UK Edition ) ---hardcover, a Fine example in a Fine dustjacket, colour photo frontispiece of a page of manuscript text by Tolkien, ---233 pages, ---"The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur. --The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain, may well be regarded as his finest and most skillful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative metre, in which he brought to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave and fateful nature of all that is told: of Arthur's expedition overseas into distant heathen lands, of Guinevere's flight from Camelot, of the great sea-battle on Arthur's return to Britain, in the portrait of the traitor Mordred, in the tormented doubts of Lancelot in his French castle. --Unhappily, The Fall of Arthur was one of several long narrative poems that he abandoned in that period. In this case he evidently began it in the earlier nineteen-thirties, and it was sufficiently advanced for him to send it to a very perceptive friend who read it with great enthusiasm at the end of 1934 and urgently pressed him 'You simply must finish it!' But in vain: he abandoned it, at some date unknown, though there is some evidence that it may have been in 1937, the year of the publication of The Hobbit and the first stirrings of The Lord of the Rings. Years later, in a letter of 1955, he said that 'he hoped to finish a long poem on The Fall of Arthur'; but that day never came. Associated with the text of the poem, however, are many manuscript pages: a great quantity of drafting and experimentation in verse, in which the strange evolution of the poem's structure is revealed, together with narrative synopses and very significant if tantalising notes. In these latter can be discerned clear if mysterious associations of the Arthurian conclusion with The Silmarillion, and the bitter ending of the love of Lancelot and Guinevere, which was never written."---, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE /// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch) --- Size: 5.75w x 9h Inches. Not Signed. NOT Price Clipped.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Alan Lee (illustrator). First Edition. -----------( 1st Printing of the First UK Edition ) ---hardcover, a Fine example in a Fine dustjacket, feels unread, ribbon marker as issued, 296 pages plus a map of Middle earth, 11 colour playes by Alan Lee plus a double page endpaper colour illustration by Lee as well as numerous duo-tone illustrations (partial page size), plus map rear endpapers showing The West of M-E at the End of the Third Age, maps are by Christopher Tolkien and coloured by Nicolette Caven, ---"J.R.R. Tolkien's writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume. -----J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a 'dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told'. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dûr and the rise of Sauron. -----It was not until Christopher Tolkien published The Silmarillion after his father's death that a fuller story could be told. Although much of the book's content concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, there were at its close two key works that revealed the tumultuous events concerning the rise and fall of the island of Númenor. Raised out of the Great Sea and gifted to the Men of Middle-earth as a reward for aiding the angelic Valar and the Elves in the defeat and capture of the Dark Lord Morgoth, the kingdom became a seat of influence and wealth; but as the Númenóreans' power increased, the seed of their downfall would inevitably be sown, culminating in the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. -----Even greater insight into the Second Age would be revealed in subsequent publications, first in Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, then expanded upon in Christopher Tolkien's magisterial twelve-volume The History of Middle-earth, in which he presented and discussed a wealth of further tales written by his father, many in draft form. -----Now, adhering to the timeline of 'The Tale of Years' in the appendices to The Lord of the Rings, editor Brian Sibley has assembled into one comprehensive volume a new chronicle of the Second Age of Middle-earth, told substantially in the words of J.R.R. Tolkien from the various published texts, with new illustrations in watercolour and pencil by the doyen of Tolkien art, Alan Lee."---, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 5.75w x 9h Inches. Not Signed. NOT Price Clipped.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No Cover Art (illustrator). First Edition. ----------(1st Printing of the First Edition ) ---hardcover, a Very Good example, corners are gently rubbed, some small faint spots on the edges of the text block, a few pages are slightly crinkled or have very small creases to the corner tips, no dustjacket, , 455 pages, ---one of the scarcest of the MIDDLE EARTH series of books, ---contents are: Preface / Part One: The Fall of Númenor and The Lost Road (includes) 1. The Early History of the Legend 2. The Fall of Númenor . The Lost Road (Includes the texts of the poems: Ilu Ilúvatar en Káre Eldain a Fírimoin; King Sheave; The Nameless Land (as published in Realities: An Anthology of Verse); two versions of The Song of Ælfwine / Aelfwine ) /// Part Two: Valinor and Middle-earth Before The Lord of the Rings: 1. The Texts and Their Relations 2. The Later Annals of Valinor 3. The Later Annals of Beleriand 4. The Ainulindalë 5. The Lhammas (Includes The Lhammas itself, with reproductions of two versions of a diagram entitled The Tree of Tongues / It is followed by a shorter but related piece called Lammasethen, which reproduces a further version of The Tree of Tongues and another diagram - The Peoples of the Elves. 6. Quenta Silmarillion / Part Three: The Etymologies Appendix I - The Genealogies Appendix II - The List of Names Appendix III - The Second 'Silmarillion' Map ---Index, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 5.75w x 9h Inches. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Maps by Christipher Tolkien (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, third impression, published later the same year. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, burgundy cloth with gilt titles, top of page block dyed burgundy as issued, in scarce 'blue' variant jacket, which means that although background is deep burgundy the titles and illustration are picked out in blue. Not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, foldout map at end as called for, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, looks hardly read. 472pp, illustrated. An extraordinary discovery is waiting for you on these pages. Mythic lore and forgotten legends unearthed by Christopher Tolkien from his father's archives unveil never-before-told stories of the three ages of ancient Middle-earth. Quite scarce in this unfaded variant jacket and early impression.

Fine. Condition: Fine. Middle Earth (Imaginary place). Fantasy fiction.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American.Edition. Original First American Edition 2024 John Howe Illustrated Dust Jacket. One Volume from the set. Very Good+ Hardcover Fine Dust Jacket Price intact and free of any chips or flaws on John Howe color illustrated cover. This is the Final volume in the History of Middle Earth and includes rare Tolkien material not offered anywhere else. Hardcover itself Very Good+ and would itself be Fine but for krinkled rear free endpaper that must have occured in manufacturing else Very Good+ Tight binding. NOT a library copy clean pages No writing in text. Plus Number 1 on title page for edition in the 2024 series. See our scans of cover, edition and krinkled endpaper offered at a bargain price Scans.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American edition ; unknown printing ; 385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm ; ISBN: 0395366143; 9780395366141 ; LC: PR6039.O32; F; Dewey: 823.912 ; OCLC: 21847514 ; "A collection of early stories and original ideas by J.R.R. Tolkien, presented and analyzed by his son Christopher Tolkien. Each tale is accompanied by notes and commentary." ; Contents: The tale of Tinuviel --; Turambar and the foaloke --; The fall of Gondolin --; The nauglafring --; The tale of Earendell --; The history of Eriol or Elfwine and the end of the tales. ; black cloth in red, grey gold dustjacket ; ownership stamp on front endpaper ; else FINE/FINE. Book.