First edition. Octavo. Publisher’s burgundy cloth, lettered gilt to the spine, in the original dustwrapper. 
 
A fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped, dustwrapper. The spine is slightly faded, but the spine lettering nevertheless retains far more blue than is usual.
 
A collection of narratives from Middle-earth and Numenor stretching from the Elder days of The Silmarillion, to the age of The Lord Of The Rings.