First edition, first printing. Publisher's original dark green boards with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with a double page colour frontispiece and a further 19 illustrations and maps in black and white throughout the text. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents, with just two small square shadows on the blank front endpaper, are otherwise clean throughout and free from inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper, that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£17.95 net to the lower front flap).
The eighth instalment in the 12 volume The History of Middle-Earth series.
Stock code: 28832
£150
London: Unwin Hyman.
1990