First editions, first printings of all three volumes.
 
All in the publisher’s original red cloth bindings, with gilt lettering and decoration to the spines. Top edges red. A bright, near fine set. Armorial bookplate of Ernest Frederick Colvile to each front pastedown, small namestampt of E.J. Kenney to each front free endpaper.
 
A complete set of first printings of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings.
 
The Fellowship of the Ring was published in July 1954 in an edition of 3,000 copies. The Two Towers followed in November 1954 in an edition of 3,250 copies, before The Return Of The King completed the trilogy in October 1955 in an edition of 7,000 copies.