"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. Narn I Chîn Húrin. The Tale of the Children of Húrin . Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Octavo, original light and dark blue paper boards, original slipcase. $850.

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

In his introduction, Christopher Tolkien explains that "there was a good case for presenting my father's long version of the legend of the Children of Húrin as an independent work, between its own covers, with a minimum of editorial presence, and above all in continuous narrative without gaps or interruption" for those readers who find Tolkien's other versions of the legends of the Elder Days "strange and inaccessible in mode and manner." Preceded by the London first edition of the same year. With a promotional slip for the deluxe edition laid in.

Fine condition.