The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King (Collector's Edition)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 7x3x10. 17th printing of the collector's edition. Includes publisher's slipcase. Minor scuff on fore edge, minimal wear to slipcase corners, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked, folding map present and intact. 1991 Hard Cover. viii, [2], 423, [1], 352, 440 pp. 8vo. Red leatherette boards, matching slipcase, gilt titles, gold, blue, and green metallic decorations. Fold-out map of the West of Middle-Earth at the End of the Third Age follows text. "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. This edition includes the fiftieth-anniversary fully corrected text setting and an extensive index.