The Fellowship of the Ring (1988)

The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
1988 Houghton Mifflin Edition (Revised), 7th Printing
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
ISBN: 0395272238
Trade paperback in dust-jacket
viii, 424 pp.
Cover illustration by Alan Lee
Hammond Page Ref.: pp. 163-168

Notes
7th Printing: October, 1988

In use until at least the 17th Printing.

The Tolkien monogram was added the the top of the book’s spine for the 9th Printing (1991). The back cover of the dust-jacket for the 9th-13th? Printings carried the Tolkien Centenary Logo.

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: $7.95; $9.95 by the 10th Printing; $10.95? by the 12th? Printing; $11.95 by the 16th Printing. Sold in a set with The Hobbit, The Two Towers and The Return of the King.

 


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