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TOLKIEN, J.R.R.

Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth.

Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth.

Stock Code 120107

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1980

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The first edition, first impression of this posthumously published collection of stories and essays by Tolkien, edited by his son Christopher Tolkien.

Unfinished Tales provides further information about characters, places, and events mentioned in The Lord of the Rings, including the origin of Gandalf and the Istari, and the founding of the kingdom of Rohan.

First edition, first impression; 8vo (23 x 15 cm); folding colour-printed map tipped-in to rear pastedown; publisher's maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top-edge stained red, brown pictorial dustjacket, slightly rubbed and frayed at extremities, very good plus; [8], 472pp.

Hammond A17a.

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