The Scarce Book Club Edition
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, & The Return of the King.
London: Readers Union George Allen Unwin Ltd, 1960.
Price: $4,000.00
About the item
First Book Club edition, approx. 3000 sets produced for members of the Readers Union, and not for general sale. 423 pp., with folding map; 352 pp., with folding map; 416 pp., with folding map. 8vo. Brown cloth-textured paper-covered boards. Grey dust jackets with sunning to spine: Fellowship's jacket with some wear along edges, bit of loss to foot of spine, old tape repairs, and former ownership signature to ffep; Two Towers with slight wear along foot of front flap hinge of jacket; otherwise it and Return are very good or better. Custom slipcase. Hammond, p. 98.
Item #374045
Hammond contends that this edition was printed from the 9th impression of the first Unwin edition, repackaged, with new art for the dust jacket.
