The History of Middle-earth — Parts I, II & III — Slipcased Hardback Set — HarperCollins

The History of Middle-earth by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Edited by Christopher Tolkien.
HarperCollins Publishers, London.

Slipcased hardback edition, collecting:

The History of Middle-earth, Part I
The History of Middle-earth, Part II
The History of Middle-earth, Part III

ISBN: 9780007105083.
Originally issued in 2002; this example is a later printing of the standard trade slipcased edition.

This handsome three-volume set presents Christopher Tolkien’s monumental editorial work tracing the development of his father’s legendarium, from the earliest Lost Tales through successive drafts of The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings.

Each volume is bound in black cloth with silver lettering to the spine and housed together in the publisher’s black slipcase, decorated to the side with Tolkien’s monogram in gilt. The spines are lettered “Tolkien I”, “Tolkien II”, and “Tolkien III”, with coloured volume numerals.

This is the regular HarperCollins slipcased hardback set (not the unissued India paper deluxe version).

Condition:
A sealed, unopened example in the original publisher’s shrinkwrap. The slipcase remains sharp and structurally sound. The shrinkwrap shows minor handling creases and small splits at the edges, as visible in the photographs, but the set itself remains protected and unread.

An attractive and substantial collector’s set of Christopher Tolkien’s indispensable study of the making of Middle-earth.

Photographs shown are of the exact set offered.

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