The Lord of the Rings RARE! Reader's Union 1ST EDITION TOLKIEN 1954

  

The Lord of the Rings Set (UK). Readers Union George Allen & Unwin LTD. Trilogy; Octavo, original full bound red cloth boards with gilt stamped front and spine. Extremely scarce set of First Edition, First Impression (2,970 - 2,980) of J. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy.

In 1960, the Readers Union published this Single Impression, followed by no others and not offered for sale to the general public. Printing figures Hardly ever found, especially in such well-preserved Original Dust Jackets.

A spectacular example of this incredibly rare early printing. Tolkien (18921973) was a leading philologist, translator, and fantasy author best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. As a schoolboy he excelled in languages and in 1911 he received a scholarship to Oxford, where he specialized in Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Old and Middle English, and other Germanic languages. The Lord of the Rings began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's fantasy novel The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in stages between 1937 and 1949, much of it during World War II in letters to his son, and finally, having polished it to his own satisfaction, published it as a trilogy from 1954 to 1955, a volume at a time, impatiently awaited by a growing audience It is considered one of this centurys lasting contributions to that borderland of literature between youth and age It seems destined to become this centurys contribution to that select list of books which continue through the ages to be read by children and adults with almost equal pleasure.

Bindings tight with moderate slants. Boards clean and unmarked with bright gilt title to spine. Light bump to top edge of Part III and to corners and slight bow to boards with the greatest being Part II. Very minimal foxing to text blocks. Internally unmarked and nearly clean but for some light foxing to front and rear pastedowns, endpapers and first free pages. Dust Jackets present very well. Some wear with fading to panels and spine. Some small and larger closed tears at creases and corners Parts I and III with rubbing to corners and edges of all. Panels laminated with some bubbling to panels with laminant extending to verso on Parts I and III. Light repairs an same at spine head of Part II.

A very rare example of this Trilogy with unusually well-preserved Dust Jackets. A classic work considered by many to be amongst the best, including The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume, The Assistant by Bernard Malamud, At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien, Atonement by Ian McEwan, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, Call It Sleep by Henry Roth, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, The Catcher in the Rye by J. Salinger, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell, The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, A Death in the Family by James Agee, The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen, Deliverance by James Dickey, Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone, Falconer by John Cheever, The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, and The Great Gatsby by F. Others include titles such as, A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene, Herzog by Saul Bellow, Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, A House for Mr.

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• Binding: Hardcover
• Place of Publication: London, England
• Language: English
• Special Attributes: First Edition
• Region: Europe
• Author: J. Tolkien
• Publisher: Readers Union George Allen & Unwin LTD
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
• Topic: Classics
• Subject: Literature & Fiction
• Character Family: Bilbo Baggins
• Original/Facsimile: Original