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Lord of the Rings

“THE MOST INFLUENTIAL FANTASY NOVEL EVER WRITTEN”

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings. London, 1954-55. Three volumes.

First editions, in original first edition dust jackets, of all three volumes of Tolkien's stirring tour de force: his richly imagined, elegantly crafted and wildly popular vision of the battle for the fate of Middle-Earth. A beautiful copy. $125,000.

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Hobbit

“IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND THERE LIVED A HOBBIT”

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. Hobbit. London, 1942.

First edition, third printing of the fantasy classic—"among the very highest achievements of children's authors during the 20th century" (Carpenter & Pritchard, 530), with the color frontispiece not included in the first printing. $18,500.

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Lord of the Rings

FIRST REVISED EDITION OF "THE MOST INFLUENTIAL FANTASY NOVEL EVER WRITTEN," HANDSOMELY BOUND

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings. London, 1966. Three volumes.

Second edition—with the author's new foreword and his revisions to the text throughout—of Tolkien's stirring tour de force, handsomely bound with the spines gilt-decorated in a design after Tolkien's drawing of the Gate to Moria. $11,000.

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Children of Húrin

"THEN TÚRIN SET THE HILTS UPON THE GROUND, AND CAST HIMSELF UPON THE POINT OF GURTHANG, AND THE BLACK BLADE TOOK HIS LIFE"

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. Children of Húrin . Boston and New York, 2007.

"Deluxe" first American edition, with a fold-out map by Christopher Tolkien and eight color illustrations and twenty-five sketches by artist Alan Lee. $850.

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