Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd, 1987, London
ISBN: 0048233498

[Book #12317]

A most beautiful First Edition/First Printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket with a smallest (1/10") closed tear on the back-panel with the original price of £16.95 printed on the jacket. A total of 6,000 copies were printed;

The fifth volume of "History of Middle Earth" contains versions of 'The Fall of Númenor'; The lost road with the poem 'The Nameless Land' and later versions; the 'later Annals of Valinor'; the 'later Annals of Beleriand'; the 'Ainulindalë'; the 'Lhammas' (or 'Account of Tongues') ; the 'Quenta Silmarillion' (the third version of 'The Silmarillion' ) and the 'Etymologies'; The History of Middle-Earth; Vol. 5