The Silmarillion

London: George Allen and Unwin,, 1977.

First Edition, fourth impression (same year as first printing). Publisher's dark blue cloth with the excellent, unclipped dust-jacket. 365 pages, folding map at back. Top edge of the pages stained blue, as issued. With a couple of old inscriptions to the front endpaper. The Silmarillion is a collection of Tolkien's works, edited by his son Christopher Tolkien and published posthumously in 1977 with assistance from fantasy writer Guy Gavriel Kay. It covers the history of the world of Arda from the birth of Eä to the end of the Third Age. The bulk of the book consists of the Quenta Silmarillion, which is mainly concerned with the deeds of the Noldor and the tales of the First Age of Middle-earth.