The Tolkien Reader
J.R.R. Tolkien
1986 Ballantine Edition, 38th Printing
Ballantine Books
New York
ISBN: 0345345061
Mass market paperback
xviii, 254 pp.
Illustrated by Pauline Baynes
Hammond Page Ref.: None
Notes
This anthology includes:
- The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son
- Tree and Leaf (On Fairy Stories & Leaf by Niggle)
- Farmer Giles of Ham
- The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
38th Printing: November, 1986
40th Printing: September, 1988
41st Printing: February, 1989*
44th Printing: March, 1991
46th Printing: December, 1992**
In use until the 59th Printing.
At least one printing (after the 47th Printing) lacks a print number.
RRP: $2.95; $3.95 and $4.95 with the 41st Printing*; $5.99 after the 47th Printing but no later than the 51st Printing (between these printings the price was moved from the front cover to the spine and back cover); $6.99 by the 52nd Printing.
*At least three printings state ‘Forty-first Printing: February, 1989‘; their copyright pages are identical but they show different prices on their covers ($3.95, $4.95 or $5.99).
**Beginning with the 47th Printing a number line was used to indicate the print number.