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The Book of Lost Tales, Part One – J.R.R. Tolkien – Third Printing of the 1984 American Edition
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Third printing of the first American edition of The Book of Lost Tales, Part One, Houghton Mifflin (edition first published in 1984), in the original green dust jacket.

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The Book of Lost Tales, Part One – J.R.R. Tolkien – Third Printing of the 1984 American Edition


Third printing of the first American edition of The Book of Lost Tales, Part One, Houghton Mifflin (edition first published in 1984), in the original green dust jacket.



The opening volume of The History of Middle-earth presents Tolkien’s earliest sustained mythology, with Christopher Tolkien’s extensive commentary and textual history.

Bibliographical details:
– Author: J.R.R. Tolkien; edited by Christopher Tolkien
– Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
– Edition: First American edition, third printing
– Edition first published: 1984; exact year of this third printing not stated
– Format: Hardcover in dust jacket
– ISBN 0-395-35439-0

Condition report:
The green dust jacket shows light shelf rubbing and minor edge wear; the cloth boards and interior appear clean and securely bound. The original jacket price is present in the photographed copy.

A desirable early American printing of the volume that opened the monumental History of Middle-earth.

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