with lightest of wear to the covers
pale green and dark green hand-made endleaves
Type: Bembo with Baker Signet for display
Publisher's quarter blue cloth binding with gray paper sides
light discolouration around the opening
The Silmarillion Agatha Christie with lightest of wear toThe Silmarillion, by J. R. R. Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977. First edition (British), first printing, the domestic edition, printed by Billing & Sons, priced 4. 95 to the inner front flap of the (unclipped) dust jacket. An export issue, printed by William Clowes, was published simultaneously. Octavo, 365 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped on spine in gilt with lettering and heraldic device of Lthien Tinviel after a drawing by Tolkien.