Buy this book on-line TOLKIEN**, J. R. R: : The Fellowship of the Ring: BEING THE FIRST PART OF THE LORD OF THE RINGSLONDON.GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN,1978. ISBN 0048230464.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,revised 2nd edn,10th
imp. [True 1st edn orignally published 1954,the 2nd revised edn in 1966 with five following yearly impressions,restarting 2 years later,then a 3 year gap upto 1978, with first the 9th imp and then the 10th imp,this edition in that year.
NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrpn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj,with white+ blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top edges coloured red - as issued,fore-edges though slightly thumbed,generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases nor foxing - would appear unread.Bright,crisp,clean, publisher's original sharp-cornered plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and near immaculate plain white endpapers.Immaculate and tear-free fold-out map to rear pastedown present and in situ.Approx 1/5th" abrasion with concomitant loss,to top edge of front board.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, rev'd 2nd edn,10th imp,6-423pp [paginated] includes foreword,contents list/table,a prologue (concerning Hobbits and other matters),Book One and Two comprising 11 and 10 chapters respectively.Plus [unpaginated] 2pp blanks,half-title+title pages,an epigraph,and Books' separator pages.Described hard,but fairly and honestly,reads worse than actually is - too much detail?
'The Lord of the Rings' is not a book to be described in a few sentences.It is a heroic romance,in the words of the novelist Richard Hughes 'something which has scarcely been attempted on this scale since Spenser's 'Faerie Queen',so one can't praise the book by comparisons - there is nothing to compare it with.'
By an extraordinary feat of imagination Tolkien has created,and maintains in every detail,a new mythology in an invented world.The English-speaking world is divided into those who have read 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' and those who are going to read them.
Which one are you?
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