The Lord of The Rings Trilogy. London: George, Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1974. Revised Second Edition (12th, 11th, 9th, Impressions). Uniform set, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket.

A fine bright set in burgundy cloth-covered boards, with the top edges of the page blocks stained burgundy by the publisher, and each complete in the correct revised second edition dust wrappers. Jacket of Return of the King is price-clipped.

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.