The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
1967 Second Edition
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
Library of Congress CC#: 67-12275*
ISBN: 0395082560
Hardcover in dust-jacket
5-444 pp.
Cover illustration by Robert Quackenbush
Hammond Page Ref.: pp. 140-141
Notes
Revised; typeset as for the Allen & Unwin 1966 Second Edition.
1st Printing: February 27, 1967** – 13,300 copies
2nd Printing: March, 1967
3rd Printing: October, 1968
4th Printing: November, 1969
5th Printing: November, 1970
6th Printing: July, 1971
7th Printing: March, 1972
8th Printing: December, 1972
9th Printing: October, 1973
10th Printing: March, 1974
11th Printing: November, 1974
12th Printing: July, 1976
13th Printing: April, 1977
Several printings (3rd-11th, 13th)*** were issued as a Book Club Edition by the Book-of-the-Month Club (starting December, 1969). These can be distinguished from the trade editions by the lack of a printed price on the front flap of the dust-jacket.
The runes bordering the central panel on the front cover of the dust-jacket read (repeating): ‘THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRANSLATED FROM THE RED BOOK’.
Jacket price: $6.00; $6.50 (3rd Printing); $7.50 (7th Printing); $8.50 (10th Printing); $9.95 (12th Printing). Sold in a set with The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.
*The copyright page for the 3rd-13th Printings of The Fellowship of the Ring incorrectly gives this same number (67-12275).
**Although the copyright date given is 1966 (1965 in later printings), the correct date of publication is 1967.
***The 6th and 11th Printings have been seen only as a Book Club Edition.
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