The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
1988 Houghton Mifflin Edition, 19th Printing
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
ISBN-10: 039548930X
ISBN-13: 9780395489307
Hardcover in dust-jacket
448 pp.
Cover illustration by Alan Lee
Hammond Page Ref.: p. 162
Notes
19th Printing: March 3, 1988
In use from the 19th Printing until at least the 50th Printing.
Also issued as a Book Club Edition. This can be distinguished from the trade edition by the lack of a number line on its copyright page.
For the 20th Printing, a barcode was added to the dust-jacket’s back cover. Further changes were made to the dust-jacket for the 21st Printing (April, 1991) including the addition of the Tolkien monogram at the top of the spine.
The runes on the front cover of the dust-jacket read (in order of top, bottom, right side, left side): ‘ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL, ONE RING TO FIND THEM, ONE RING TO BRING THEM ALL AND, IN THE DARKNESS BIND THEM’.
Jacket price: $16.95; $18.95 with the 21st Printing; $21.95 by the 30th Printing; $22.00 by the 34th Printing. Sold in a set with The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.
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