THE SILMARILLION

TOLKIEN, J.R.R.

Edité par George Allen & Unwin, London, 1977

First edition. Octavo. Original publisher's navy cloth, top-edge black, lettered gilt to spine, in the original dustwrapper. A black and red fold out map to rear. A very good book in a very good dustwrapper. Some minor toning internally to front and rear endpapers. Some very light spotting to the rear map, but internally sound. Spine is sunned. Gift inscription to first free endpaper in ink. The first edition of Tolkien's life's-work. Tolkien began work on The Silmarillion, the account of The Elder Days, or First Age of Middle-earth, in 1914. He continued to work on the book throughout his life, never finalising it into a publishable form. During the writing and publication of The Lord Of The Rings, set in the Third Age of Middle-earth, Tolkien saw the narratives of it and The Silmarillion as inseparable, and sought publication of them together as "one long Saga of the Jewels and the Rings". Tolkien's publisher's on the other hand, wanted what they had asked for; a sequel to The Hobbit, and so the sprawling mass papers that were The Silmarillion remained unpublished on Tolkien's death. These papers were marshalled into a publishable form by Christopher Tolkien with the assistance of Guy Gavriel Kay in the years after Tolkien's death in 1973. It was eventually published in September 1977 in an edition of 200,000 copies (both domestic and for export). N° de réf. du vendeur 2227

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : THE SILMARILLION
Éditeur : George Allen & Unwin, London
Date d'édition : 1977
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette
Edition : Edition originale