The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King. Three Volumes. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1959. Eighth, Sixth & Fifth Impressions. Publisher’s red cloth boards, titles in gilt to spines. Light shelf-wear and toning to cloth, corners bumped Bookplates & neat ownership name to endpapers, contents pages bright & clean. Housed in publisher’s cardboard box.

First published between 1954 & 1955, The Lord of the Rings is one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. A great classic of fantasy literature, containing amazing details of a new mythology. 

Ex library publisher & author Colin Smythe, with his ownership name & bookplates to endpapers. Smyth published Terry Pratchett’s early works, and later became his agent.