The Silmarillion — 2004 First US Printing, Illustrated by Ted Nasmith

The 2004 Illustrated Silmarillion — First US Printing

The Silmarillion. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 2004. Edited by Christopher Tolkien; illustrated by Ted Nasmith. ISBN 0-618-39111-8.

This is the second illustrated edition, expanding the 1998 presentation of Tolkien’s First Age with further paintings by Ted Nasmith. Its forty-five colour illustrations accompany the revised and corrected text, Christopher Tolkien’s preface and Tolkien’s 1951 letter to Milton Waldman. The book is bound in dark blue, with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine, beneath Nasmith’s original pictorial dust jacket.

The copyright page identifies the American publisher and the Belgian printer, Proost N.V. of Turnhout. Its complete HC 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 number line confirms the first US printing of November 2004. The photographs show the title and copyright pages, several of the colour plates, the dust jacket from all sides and the blue binding beneath it.

Condition

An attractive, clean example. The jacket retains bright colour and presents well in the photographs, with only light signs of handling visible. The blue boards, gilt spine lettering and photographed pages appear clean. The rear folding map has not been unfolded for these photographs, so its condition is not individually described.

A first US printing of the expanded Ted Nasmith illustrated Silmarillion, complete with its original dust jacket.

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