The Book of Lost Tales: Part I by J.R.R. Tolkien [FIRST EDITION] 1984 • Houghton Mifflin

THE BOOK OF LOST TALES: Part I by J.R.R. TOLKIEN edited by Christopher Tolkien (The History of Middle Earth #1)

U.S. FIRST EDITION [1982] HOUGHTON MIFFLIN

Second Printing / 1982. 

Stunning first edition.   

A hint of edge wear to an otherwise mint dust jacket with original jacket price in tact.

Ships in a new HQ jacket protector!

Book itself is excellent.  Clean black cloth boards.  

Pages look and read like new.  *Name of original owner and date written neatly in corner on underside of cover.  Otherwise pristine. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

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.