The Lord of The Rings Trilogy. The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of The King. London: G. Allen, 1965. First Edition, Eleventh & Fourteenth Impression Set. Publisher’s red cloth covers, title in gilt to spines, in distinctive first edition issued dust jackets. Mild age-toning to jackets but overall a fine bright set. Housed in custom-made slipcase.

Each volume with a large folding map after Christopher Tolkien at rear. A lovely collectable set of the single most important work of fantasy literature in the twentieth century.

Tolkien’s masterpiece trilogy ‘The Lord of the Rings’ where he created an amazing new mythology. The publishing history of Tolkien’s trilogy is very complex, with a bewildering number of editions and impressions being produced in the years since ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ first appeared in 1954, the other two volumes in the trilogy in 1955.

“To have created so enthralling an epic-romance, with its own mythology, with such diversity of scene and character, such imaginative largess in invention and description, and such supernatural meaning underlying the wealth of incident, is a most remarkable feat. Mr Tolkien is one of those born storytellers who makes his readers as eager as wide-eyed children for more. His style, in prose and verse, is fresh and fluent and equally apt to the expression of unearthly beauty, homely humour, or stark horror.” [Extract from a review of the first volume in the trilogy which appeared on 20 August, 1954]