The Road Goes Ever On
Words by J.R.R. Tolkien
Music by Donald Swann
1978 Second Revised Edition
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
ISBN: 0395247586
Hardcover in dust-jacket
xiv, 82 pp.
Illustrated by J.R.R. Tolkien
Hammond Page Ref.: pp. 318-319
Notes
Partly reset; revisions include a rewritten foreword, the addition of performance directions, the inclusion of a new setting, ‘Bilbo’s Last Song’, and a number of corrections. The Allen & Unwin 1978 Second Revised Edition was published in October, 1978.* Illustrations by Samuel Hanks Bryant are omitted.
Includes music for eight poems by J.R.R. Tolkien: 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, Errantry and Bilbo’s Last Song.
1st Printing: May 25, 1978 – 10,000 copies
Not reprinted?
Jacket price: $10.00.
*The publication order of the U.S. and U.K. editions is erroneously reversed in Hammond’s Bibliography (The Tolkien Collector, no. 4, p. 15).