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Publishing The Lord of the Rings
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Unpublished Manuscript Found?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 Book Club Edition 1960.
Readers Union.
(with George Allen & Unwin)
London.
Hardback in dustwrapper.
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 1960.
Price: 12s per volume.

The Fellowship of the Ring
2,979 copies bound.

The Two Towers<.span>
2,978 copies bound

The Return of the King
2,973 copies bound.

For further details see Printing and Binding The Lord of the Rings.

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