The Book of Lost Tales: Part I by J.R.R. Tolkien [1984 HARDCOVER]

The Book of Lost Tales: Part I by J.R.R. Tolkien

BOOK CLUB EDITION [1984] HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

Dust jacket has visible edge wear and some minor tearing to edges.   

Book itself looks & reads like new. 

The Book of Lost Tales 1 stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor. Embedded in English legend and English association, they were set in the narratve frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriol (or Ælfwine) to Tol Eressëa, the Lonely Isle, where Elves dwelt; from them he learned their true story, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. In the Tales are found the earliest accounts and original ideas of Gods and Elves; Dwarves and Orcs; the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor; Nargothrond and Gondolin; and the geography and cosmology of the invented world.