FIRST EDITION. 1st impression. 8vo. (9 x 5.8 inches). Original publishers black boards with the spine ruled and lettered in gilt. In the original dustwrapper, with printed price (£17.95) on inside flap. A near fine, bright and clean copy with just a little creasing to the top and bottom of the book's spine in a fine dustwrapper of the sixth volume of Tolkien's History of Middle Earth.