Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New in As New dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo
Publisher: Houghton and Mifflin, 2006, New York
ISBN: 0618391134

[Book #13027]

A handsome set of this First Edition/First Printing reference work in As New/As New condition, packaged as a box set. Unread two-volume set still protected by original shrink-wrap;

An important reference work for readers and students of Tolkien's work, including a who's who of important individuals, a guide to places and institutions, details concerning Tolkien's source material, his social circle, his service as an infantryman in World War I in the Reader's Guide. The Chronology details the parallel evolutions of Tolkien's works and his academic and personal life in minute detail, including almost sixty years of work on Middle-earth, drawing on contemporary sources such as school records, war service files, biographies, correspondence, the letters of his close friend C. S. Lewis, and the diaries of W. H. Lewis; Vol. 12