Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first edition, first 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 with a moderate to heavy warp to both boards. Also with, strong silver title gilt on a straight spine and strong gilt on the illustrations on both front cover and spine, lightly foxed page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and bumped corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition without any marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership . The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
The first issue dust jacket is in Very Good condition with mild surface wear, heavy edge wear, the $10.95 price on the front flap. A brilliant cover illustration by Tolkien that looks great in a new archival wrap.
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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