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Publishing The Lord of the Rings
V The First Impression of RotK
VI The First Boxed Edition
VII The Readers Union Edition
VIII The First Deluxe Edition
IX Printing and Binding LotR
XIV LotR: A Bibliography
XV LotR: A Bibliography of Slipcases
The History of Middle-earth series
Other Articles
Christopher Tolkien Bibliography
I Think I've Got A Hobbit
Missing Images
Nasty Tricksy Hobbits
Printing and Binding The Hobbit
Songs for the Philologists
The Princess Hobbit
-- Letter from J. R. R. Tolkien
-- Gandalf: Not 'Magician' but 'Wizard'
-- Visions of Gollum
-- Of Smaug and the Jabberwock
-- Magazine Gallery
Tolkien Calendars
Tolkien the Esperantist?
Tolkien's Languages and Alphabets
Unpublished Manuscript Found?
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The Fellowship of the Ring. The Two Towers. The Return of the King. J.R.R. Tolkien. First Deluxe Edition 1964. George Allen & Unwin. London. Hardbacks in slipcase. 22.8cm x 14.5 cm. Hammond Page Ref: p.98. The maps are inserted on fold-out sheets at the rear of each volume.
Published: December 1964. A set of 1963 impressions of the sheets of the standard trade edition, bound in black buckram, and issued in a Pauline Baynes illustrated slipcase. 1,000 sets of books were bound in November 1964. 1,000 slipcases were produced in November or early December 1964 and 500 sets were boxed immediately. Another 500 were boxed in October[?] 1965. 50 replacement slipcases were made in January 1967, due to some of the sets of books being too large for the slipcases.
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