Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first edition, early printing hardcover copy of The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien. Illustrated by the author.
The book is in Very Good condition with clean, lightly faded boards, strong silver title gilt on a straight spine and strong gilt on the illustrations on both front cover and spine. Also, foxed page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Very Good condition with a short gift inscription to the previous owner on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
No dust jacket.
A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien’s imaginative writing, a work that he could not publish in his lifetime because it grew with him. Its origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit. But The Hobbit was caught up in what Tolkien called “the branching acquisitive theme” he began in The Silmarillion, and eventually The Lord of the Rings emerged from this as well.
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