The Road Goes Ever on by Tolkien, First Edition (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 3rd impress. ~Foreword by Donald Swann. Pale brown dustwrapper printed in red & black unfaded, unclipped, and protected in removable clear plastic sleeve. Very small unobtrusive water tide mark at top of front panel of dustwrapper. Inscription dated 1973 to front endpage. Text printed in red & black.~Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders. Size: ix, 67pp. Binding sound, text unmarked.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Quarto. ix, 68pp. Original pale boards with red titles. Faint spotting to covers, otherwise very good indeed in a slightly worn, marked and edge nicked, unclipped, very good dust jacket. 1968 1st edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1967. This US edition is the true first edition of this book, printed a year before the George Allen & Unwin edition. It has red covers with gilt decoration, and is printed on a slightly darker tone of paper to the UK edition. Unclipped dustjacket is generally bright, with a 1 inch tear to the top of the spine, and a small scuff and tear to the bottom of spine. Both of these had small historical tape repairs to the inside which have been carefully removed. The lower being replaced with archival quality repair tape. Jacket is in a tidy removable protective wrapper. Fresh red cloth covers, bright gilt decoration and lettering to the front plus spine. Clean pages, no inscriptions. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, first impression, published in 1968 by George Allen & Unwin. (Originally published a year earlier in the USA by Houghton Mifflin). Price clipped dust jacket a little age toned, with some spots and small tears to the edges, a 1 inch closed tear to the bottom edge of the rear panel. Jacket now in a smart removable protective wrapper. Cream paper covered boards are bright, some light spotting to the boards and edge of page block, securely bound, pages are clean and bright, previous owners inscription in pen to the free endpaper. Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing 1967 Houghton Mifflin. This US edition is the true first edition of this book, printed a year before the George Allen & Unwin edition. It has red covers with gilt decoration, and is printed on a slightly darker tone of paper to the UK edition. Dust jacket has three very neat archival tape repairs to the inside, one to the top right of the front, the others to the top and bottom edges of the rear flap approx. These are very neatly holding small tears of approximately 1.5 cm each. Jacket price clipped and is in a neat removable protective wrapper. Red covers with bright gilt titles plus decoration to the front, with gilt and black letters to the spine. Clean pages, a previous owners unobtrusive name stamp to rear free endpaper. Very good condition.

[978-0-00-731269-6] 2009, 1st printing. (Hardcover) Fine, no dust jacket. 63pp. Red cloth with color pastedown illustration. Map, illustrations, large folding map in pocket. Based on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien--The Lord of the Rings. Illustration by John Howe. (Fantasy).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Text appears clean and unmarked. Very minor shelf and perusal wear. The red boards are unfaded, the gilt lettering bright. Minor bumping on all corners. Pages are well bound. There is a small smudge/stain on the text block edge at about the half way mark. DJ is in good shape, but not great. Price has been clipped. There is wear on all edges, with some chipping. DJ top of spine has been repaired with tape. There is a new mylar cover to prevent further deterioration. Pictures upon request.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First. Music by Donald Swann. Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien and with decorations by Tolkien & Samuel Hanks Bryant, printed in red & black on every page. Thin folio, original gilt-stamped red cloth, tan printed d.w. (price-clipped and just a touch sunned but otherwise totally intact). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First American edition (preceded the U.K. edition by one year). A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.

First UK edition. Quarto. Publisher's cream paper-covered boards, lettered red, in the original dustwrapper decorated by Tolkien in Tengwar. A very good copy, in a very good dustwrapper, a little dusty, particularly to the spine and lower cover. The first UK edition of this attractively produced volume featuring Tolkien's poems of Middle-earth set to music by Donald Swann. It includes music for seven poems: The Road Goes Ever On, Upon the Hearth the Fire is Red, In the Willow-meads of Tasarinan, In Western Lands, Namárië, I Sit Beside the Fire and Errantry, and also includes translations of Namárië and A Elbereth Gilthoniel. The work was published in the US in October 1967 in an edition of 20,000 copies, before being issued in the UK in the present edition in February 1968.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression hardback in Near Fine condition with a like unclipped jacket. Boards bumped, toe of the spine slightly marked, otherwise a clean copy in a tight and square binding. Jacket has light edge wear, now protected in a removable clear plastic sleeve. A splendid copy after 55 years. Free registered postage worldwide.

First edition. 4to. Original cream coloured paper covered boards in dustwrapper with decoration by Tolkien. A fine copy with an ownership inscription on the front free-endpaper, in a fine (price-clipped) dustwrapper with a hint of tanning on the spine. Decorative borders throughout by Tolkien. A beautifully produced book, in which Donald Swann sets to music Tolkien's poems of Middle-Earth. Swann and Tolkien met at Priscilla Tolkien's home in May 1965, and Swann gave a private performance of his compositions for 'The Road Goes Ever On', 'Upon The Hearth The Fire Is Red', 'In The Willow-meads Of Tasarinan', 'In Western Lands', 'I Sit Beside The Fire' and 'Namarie'. Tolkien enjoyed the performance and Swann's company greatly, and after successful radio performances the scores were eventually published, with 'A Elbereth Gilthoniel' and 'Errantry' added in the meantime, and 'In Western Lands' discarded. Hammond B28B.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket.