Unfinished Tales

1st thus. 40th anniversary edition. 490pp plus 18 full colour plate illustrations, coloured maps on endpapers. In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles. Silk ribbon marker bound in. 8vo, . Volume in near fine condition, with just a hint of rubbing at the head of spine, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust jacket (a little warped, rubbed at edges). Issued to commemorate the 40th anniversary of its first publication, this illustrated edition of a collection of Middle Earth stories features 18 colour paintings by John Howe, Alan Lee and Ted Nasmith, and presents Christopher Tolkien's pivotal step towards mapping out the posthumous publishing of Middle Earth.