J R R Tolkien Edited Christopher (170 results)

Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. Alan Lee (illustrator). ***Simply Brit*** Welcome to our online used book store, where affordability meets great quality. Dive into a world of captivating reads without breaking the bank. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate. All orders are shipped within 24 hours and our lightning fast-delivery within 48 hours coupled with our prompt customer service ensures a smooth journey from ordering to delivery. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Black bakground paperbacks in very clean condition (pages look unread).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good +. Bill Sanderson (illustrator). First Thus. 377 pages. Light wear along edges of brown-hued background dustjacket, not price-clipped. Very clean hardback binding with light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Pages very clean.

Condition: New. 2025. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Reprint paperback. Cover illustration by Roger Garland. Condition: Good. Cover with creases and small closed edge tear. Very little edge wear. Slight age toning to page edges. Binding firm. Size: 8x5in / 20x13cm. 439pp. Weight: 320g.

Condition: New. 2024. Hardcover. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Alan Lee (illustrator). 1st Edition. The earliest versions of this story go back to the end of the First World War and the years that followed, but after the Lord of the Rings was finished he wrote it anew and greatly enlarged it in complexities of narrative and character. There is some spotting to the endpapers. The boards, textblock and dust jacket are all square, tight and clean. Book price includes 2nd class postage in UK only.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First US Edition; First Printing. In FINE crisp black boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. Lower corners VERY slightly bumped - negligible, NO damage. Remaining corners sharp. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket. Not clipped - intact. Appears unread. The d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover - As NEW. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing with the Correct Printers Key - 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Internally NO Inscriptions or marks. (8) + 377 pp. Colour frontispiece plate (3 pps before the title) reproducing a page of Tolkien's manuscript. Small black & white vignettes in the text. 'The New Lay of the Volsungs' and 'The New Lay of Gudrun'. With Commentary and Appendices. A FINE copy in a FINE dust jacket. The first publication, published simultaneously with the UK version, of a previously unknown work by J. R. R. Tolkien, his own version, in verse form, of the great legend of Northern antiquity which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrun, and the Fall of the Nibelungs. See Images; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. GUILD PUBLISHING SECOND IMPRESSION 1986. THE DUSTWRAPPER IS STUCK TO THE BOOK BY THE APPLICATION OF A CLEAR ADHESIVE WRAP. THIS HAS RESULTED IN A FEW LIGHT MARKS ON THE END PAPERS WHERE THERE IS A FAINT GLUE LINE. ON THE REAR COVER THERE ARE A FEW DOTS OF WHITE PAINT- THIS ONE MUST HAVE BEEN FLICKED WITH PAINT FROM A CLOSE-BY DECORATING ENTERPRISE. TOP OF BLOCK BROWNED AND SPOTTED. EDGE OF BLOCK TANNED, WITH A FEW LIGHT MARKS. THE TEXT IS CLEAN AND TIDY. TOP CORNER OF PAGES 69 TO 78 HAVE A SMALL CREASE. PREVIOUS OWNER'S NAME AND ADDRESS PRINTED ON THE FRONT END PAPER.OVERALL IN FAIR CONDITION AND OK AS A STUDY COPY BUT NOT IN COLLECTIBLE CONDITION.

softcover. Condition: good. Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages age toned.Ex-Library book with usual stamps and labels.Pictures available upon request. ND.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Alan Lee; (illustrator). 1st Edition. Includes a fold-out map. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; pale gray endpapers; headband; illustrated with drawings and colour plates by Alan Lee; wraparound dj art also by Alan Lee. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. This story collection contains: Preface; Introduction; Narn I Chin Hurin - The Tale of the Children of Hurin; Genealogies: The House of Hador and the People of Haleth; The House of Beor; and The Princes of Noldor; followed by Appendices: The Evolution of the Great Tales; and The Composition of the Text. Size: 8vo. Book.

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: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Illustrated by Alan Lee (illustrator). 1st UK Edition; Fifth Printing. Fine blue cloth boards with bright gilt titling to the spine In the original publisher's pictorial dust-jacket. A Near Fine / 'As New' unworn, unmarked, book in a fine dust-jacket. The dust-jacket is not price clipped (Original price £18.99) . The only reason for this copy not being marked New is that the page edges/fore-edges have some faint pale foxing (tiny pale spots) hardly noticable - negligible. This copy is a 5th Impression of the 1st Edition - Numbered "5" on the publisher's details page. The dust-jacket and 8 other full page, full colour illustrations are by the great ALAN LEE. Internally NO Inscriptions or Marks. 320 pp . Edited by Christopher Tolkien. With Genealogies, Appendices, and a Fold-out map at the end in b/w and red. Lovely copy. See Images ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1994 Book Club edition. Blue cloth, gilt titles, unclipped pictorial dustjacket illustrated by John Howe. B/w maps at end. Condition: Very good book in very good dustjacket. No inscriptions. Bumping to spine ends, spotting to top edge. Pages age toned, binding firm. Dj with sunning to spine, crumpling to spine ends. Now in removable plastic sleeve. Size: 9.5x6in / 24x15cm. 365pp. Weight: 640g.

Condition: Brand New. Ted Nasmith (illustrator). New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Reprint. The Book of Lost Tales was the first major work of imagination by J.R.R. Tolkien, begun in 1916-1917 when he was twenty-five years old and left incomplete several years later. It stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor, for the Lost Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Size: Small Octavo. 297 pages. Pages browned at edges. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Australian::Australian Fauna; Gardening; Horticulture. ISBN: 0048232815. ISBN/EAN: 9780048232816. Inventory No: 274246.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st American edition, 4th printing. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light even toning on the endpapers and writing on the ffep. Good DJ with some chips/tears and toning. Solid binding. Includes a map.

Reprint. Octavo-size paperback. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Third Impression. 315pp, + fold out map. Size: 8vo.

Condition: Fine. 8vo. hardcover. 233pp. Fine. / Fine d/w.

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.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Alan Lee (Illustrations) (illustrator). 1st Houghton Mifflin Paperback Edition: 313 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and very light shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Alan Lee (illustrator). First Trade. A collector's edition preceded this publication. Unmarked, unread and protected in mylar wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 4th impression. The Lays of Beleriand, first published in 1985, is the third volume of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume book series, The History of Middle-earth, in which he analyzes the unpublished manuscripts of J. R. R. Tolkien. With a frontispiece, contents - Preface I. "The Lay of the Children of Húrin" First version Second version II. Poems Early Abandoned: "The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor" "Fragment of an alliterative Lay of Eärendel" "The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin" III. "The Lay of Leithian" Canto I Canto XIV Unwritten Cantos Appendix: Commentary by C. S. Lewis IV. "The Lay of Leithian Recommenced" Index . A very good copy in very good price clipped dustjacket. ; 230 x 150mm; [vi], 393 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition; Third Impression. Book and dust-jacket VG. Part Two in this series is near identical to the Allen and Unwin Publication, and published by Guild Publishing by arrangement with them. Brown cloth covered boards with Bright Gilt titling to the spine. The dust-jacket is in a plum/browny colour, titled/decorated in gold and white. Perhaps some minor 'sunning' has caused a slight colour change to the base colour of the spine, but negligible and not noticable as the d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and the d/j looks Very Good Plus. INTERNALLY FINE. NO INSCRIPTIONS or MARKS. The Second Volume in The History of Middle-Earth. Part II = Preface; The Tale of Tinuviel; Turamber and The Foaloke; The Fall of Gondolin; The Nauglafring; The Tale of Earendel; The History of Eriol, or Elfwine and The End of the Tales. Elfwine of England - All 'Tales' with Notes and Commentaries, etc. Appendix; Index. See Images. ; The History of Middle-Earth Series Edited by Christopher Tolkien. ; Large Tall 8vo 8" - 9".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. small chip and short tears to jacket edges, otherwise clean and sound, moderate usage, octavo, 483 pages, book club edition.

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: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Bill Sanderson (illustrator). First Edition. No signatures. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; [vi], 377, [1 (blank)] pages + colour frontispiece. Black boards with gilt lettering and monogram "JRRT" on spine. Page dimensions: 221 x 142mm. "Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first time, of the great legend of Northern antiquity, in two closely related poems to which he gave the titles The New Lay of the Voelsungs and The New Lay of Gudrun.In the Lay of the Voelsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fafnir most celebrated of dragons, whose treasure he took for his own; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes who were named the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood-brotherhood. In that court there sprang great love but also great hate, brought about by the power of the enchantress, mother of the Niflungs, skilled in the arts of magic, of shape-changing and potions of forgetfulness.In scenes of dramatic intensity, of confusion of identity, thwarted passion, jealousy and bitter strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild, of Gunnar the Niflung and Gudrun his sister, mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd at the hands of his blood-brothers, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudrun. In the Lay of Gudrun her fate after the death of Sigurd is told, her marriage against her will to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), his murder of her brothers the Niflung lords, and her hideous revenge.Deriving his version primarily from his close study of the ancient poetry of Norway and Iceland known as the Poetic Edda (and where no old poetry exists, from the later prose work the Voelsunga Saga), J.R.R. Tolkien employed a verse-form of short stanzas whose lines embody in English the exacting alliterative rhythms and the concentrated energy of the poems of the Edda." - Christopher Tolkien, from dust-jacket blurb.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ted Nasmith (illustrator). Illustrated Edition. Illustrated edition 1998 near fine hardback, light foxing to page edges, in a very good dust wrapper, corners and edges lightly rubbed, small closed tear, covers slightly creased. Protected by clear removable archival covering. No inscription. Not price clipped. 365 pages with index. Appendix. Genealogies. Full Colour illustrations by Ted Nasmith. Endpaper Maps.