1st edition, 1st printing (true first). 366pp, with full page coloured map and fold out coloured map of Beleriand tipped in at rear. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Top text block edge sprayed blue. 8vo. Cloth very slightly rounded at spine ends. Small mark on front panel. Text block edges a little toned. In its original dust jacket, lightly bumped on edges, not price clipped (with �4.95 pricing on the inner front flap). A very nice, presentable, true first of Tolkien's classic Silmarillion. Dust jacket now protected in an archival-quality Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.
Middle-earth, Tolkien, Modern Fiction Firsts, Hobbits,
