THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
- Hardcover
- Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1955]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1955]. First American Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 423 pages. In Very Good minus condition, with a Good dust jacket.
Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Mild shelf wear to boards, including bumping to head, tail, and corners; sun-fading to spine (lettering remains clear and legible); cocking to spine (boards shaken, slight shelf lean, gutter visible between front paste-down and front free endpaper, binding intact); age-toning to text block; notations in pencil on verso of page 423 and back free endpaper; fold-out map re-attached to back paste-down with non archival tape; light age-toning to interior pages, text remains clear and legible.
Dust jacket protected by a mylar covering; spine yellow with red lettering. Moderate wear to dust jacket, including chipping and tears with material loss to head, tail, and corners; non-archival tape applied to exterior and interior of jacket on corners, along hinge, and across spine; sun-fading to spine (lettering to spine affected yet legible); age-toning to dust jacket, particularly to margins of flaps.
WH consignment. Shelved in Case 8. First installment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
First American Edition, Third Printing, with no date to copyright page, no price to jacket, with joint Houghton Mifflin Company imprint, no printings listed on copyright page. Printed in the UK. From the sheets of the third UK impression, which is the second U.S printing, as the second and UK impression was not sent over and does not exist in the U.S. One of 3,000 copies sent to the U.S. 1399140. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Mild shelf wear to boards, including bumping to head, tail, and corners; sun-fading to spine (lettering remains clear and legible); cocking to spine (boards shaken, slight shelf lean, gutter visible between front paste-down and front free endpaper, binding intact); age-toning to text block; notations in pencil on verso of page 423 and back free endpaper; fold-out map re-attached to back paste-down with non archival tape; light age-toning to interior pages, text remains clear and legible.
Dust jacket protected by a mylar covering; spine yellow with red lettering. Moderate wear to dust jacket, including chipping and tears with material loss to head, tail, and corners; non-archival tape applied to exterior and interior of jacket on corners, along hinge, and across spine; sun-fading to spine (lettering to spine affected yet legible); age-toning to dust jacket, particularly to margins of flaps.
WH consignment. Shelved in Case 8. First installment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
First American Edition, Third Printing, with no date to copyright page, no price to jacket, with joint Houghton Mifflin Company imprint, no printings listed on copyright page. Printed in the UK. From the sheets of the third UK impression, which is the second U.S printing, as the second and UK impression was not sent over and does not exist in the U.S. One of 3,000 copies sent to the U.S. 1399140. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.