The Silmarillion – Book Club Associates Edition, 1978

The 1978 Book Club Associates edition of The Silmarillion, published in London.

The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Silmarillion printed by Book Club Associates, London, United Kingdom, 1978

In origin, The Silmarillion precedes even The Hobbit, and tells the story of the First Age of Tolkien's Middle-earth. Tolkien worked on it, changed it, and enlarged it throughout his life. It was edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay. The earliest drafts date back to 1917. 

Book Club edition by arrangement with George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd.
Includes note of pronunciation, tables (genealogies), index (names of persons and places) and an appendix (elements in Quenya and Sindarin names).

Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine.
Surface marks to page ends but text is clean. Boards show slight wear - corners bent slightly/ crease to back top corner, surface marks.
Jacket is unclipped and shows £ 4.95 price. Dust jacket has numerous tears to the top and front and shows
wear to the bottom and top of the jackets both front and back.

While the book looks fine the jacket has seen better days. Still a very nice copy!

Smaller in size than the first impressions of The Silmarillion, this is a comfortable reading copy.
A nice copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's lifetime work containing his account of the mythology of Middle-earth, edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien.

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