Reprint. 1200pp, with fifty full page colour illustrations specially commissioned from Alan Lee to commemorate the centenary of Tolkien's birth, and includes Tolkien's maps of Middle Earth and appendices. Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt decoration and gilt-stamped lettering on spine. Fawn endpapers. Red satin ribbon marker bound in. Cloth very slightly pushed at spine base else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original, illustrated glossy dust wrapper, a little rubbed on corners and spine ends. Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.
