The Two Towers, 1955, 1st US edition, 1st printing, J R R Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, published by Houghton & Mifflin& Co Scarce 1st printing of The Two Towers, which is particularly rare in the 1st state dust jacket that has the required nick in the vertical of the 'r' in the word 'Towers'. This only appears on 1st printing jackets. It is recognised as the hardest to find, with a dust jacket, in 1st edition 1st printing, of all of the Lord of the Rings books, either UK or US Only one thousand copies of the 1st printing of The Two Towers were bound by Houghton Mifflin & Co for the whole of the United States. The dust jacket, has losses, closed tears, rubbing and chipping but is not price clipped. The text is clean; no signatures or inscriptions; there is a bookplate on the front free end paper. The map is present.