The Return of the King (1978)

The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
1978 Houghton Mifflin Edition
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
ISBN: 0395272211
Trade paperback
3-450 pp.
Cover illustration based on a design by J.R.R. Tolkien
Hammond Page Ref.: pp. 152-153

Notes
Typeset as for the Houghton Mifflin 1967 Second Edition.

1st Printing: October 2, 1978*

Six printings issued.**

Sold in a set with The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King and later including The Hobbit.

*Hammond’s Bibliography gives this date as October 28, 1978.

**The first four printings have number lines, the 5th Printing has not yet been seen and the 6th Printing does not have a number line.

 


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