First edition. Octavo. Publisher’s burgundy cloth, lettered gilt to the spine, in the original dustwrapper.
 
A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, with only a hint of the fading that normally plagues the spine of the jacket.
 
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.