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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography (1978)

Tolkien: A Biography
Humphrey Carpenter
1978 First U.S. Paperback Edition (Reset)
Ballantine Books
New York
ISBN: 0345272560
Mass market paperback
viii, 328 pp.
Photographs by various
Hammond Page Ref.: pp. 332-333

Notes
Includes a large number of previously unpublished extracts from letters, poems and other writings by Tolkien together with a reproduction of a page from the manuscript of The Lord of the Rings.

1st Printing: September, 1978

At least three? printings issued.

RRP: $2.50. Sold in a set with A Guide to Middle-earth, Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings and Master of Middle-earth.


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