The Silmarillion
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977. First UK Edition. Hardcover. 365 pp. 8vo. Fine dust jacket with extremely minimal edge wear, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with gold titling, very light sunning to top edge of boards, small bumping to bottom of rear corner board. Clean within. This is the true 1st Edition. Also called the British Export Edition, printed by William Clowes & Sons, London. The British domestic issue was later printed by Billington. George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., London, UK, 1977. The foldout map is present and in Fine condition inside the rear endpaper. Top edge stained blue as per this edition. The unpriced export edition preceded the (priced) domestic edition, and contains all first impression points (misprints on pages 330 and 352 that were corrected in a later impression or impressions). The True 1st Edition includes the following points: (1) no price on jacket; (2) printed by William Clowes on copyright; (3) no period after Feanor on p.330, line 4; (4) the word "and" between "Lord of Waters and King of the Sea" is in italics on p.352, line 39.
. Fine / Fine. Item #3046
ISBN: 0048231398
Price: $215.00