The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien
Edited by Christopher Tolkien
1978 Book Club Edition (Reset)
Science Fiction Book Club / Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
ISBN: 0395346460*
SFBC #: 015909
Hardcover in dust-jacket
xii, 372 pp.
Cover illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien (colored by H.E. Riddett)
Hammond Page Ref.: pp. 223-224
Notes
Typeset based on the 1st Printing of the Houghton Mifflin 1977 First Edition (page 3 error ‘Father Giles‘ continued). Map printed on endpapers.
1st Printing: 1978
2nd Printing: 1980
3rd Printing: 1983?
4th Printing: 1985
5th Printing: 1986
This edition differs from the 1977 First Edition (as well as its corresponding Book Club Edition) and can be distinguished by the following features: smaller size, different texture/color binding, no price on the dust-jacket’s front flap, map printed on endpapers, no headband or top stain, no number line on copyright page and no ISBN on jacket’s back cover. Some of the printings have a gutter code on p. 367 (the 1st Printing’s code is I 16).
RRP: $6.98 in 1983, possibly earlier. Also sold together (SFBC# 53967) with Unfinished Tales for $11.50; $11.98 (Fall 1984).
*This ISBN is seen on the copyright page of the 3rd and 4th Printings and is shared with the Houghton Mifflin 1983/1991 Trade Paperback Edition.
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