FIRST EDITION. (9 x 5.8 inches). Original publishers green boards with the spine ruled and lettered in gilt. In the original dustwrapper, with printed price (£17.95) on inside flap. A fine, bright and clean copy in a fine dustwrapper of the eighth volume of Tolkien's comprehensive History of Middle Earth, published in 12 volumes between 1983 and 1996, the works compiled and edited by his son Christopher. Very faint "1st edition" in pencil on inside cover.