The History of Middle-earth: The Book of Lost Tales, Part I; The Book of Lost Tales, Part II; The Lays of Beleriand; The Shaping of Middle-earth; The Lost Road, and other writings; The Return of the Shadow; The Treason if Isengard; The War of the Ring; Sauron Defeated; Morgoth's Ring; The War of the Jewels; The Peoples of Middle-earth. Edited by Christopher Tolkien [Complete in 12 vols.]

Publication details: George Allen & Unwin/ Unwin Hyman, 1983-1996,

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A superb set of this monumental expansion of the author's imaginative world, drawing on material - prose, poetry, and pictures - from throughout his career.

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1996, 8vo, original boards of different colours, backstrips lettered in gilt, the first four volumes with matching colours to top edges, one volume with a couple of very faint spots to fore-edge, dustjackets, one with publisher's re-pricing sticker to front flap, none clipped, a hint of fading to the backstrip panel of volume 9, volume 11 with tiny nick at head of backstrip panel, near fine

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