Unfinished Tales (1988)

Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien
Edited by Christopher Tolkien
1988 Ballantine Edition (Reset)
Ballantine Books
New York
ISBN: 0345357116
Mass market paperback
xiv, 498 pp.
Cover illustration by Michael Herring
Hammond Page Ref.: pp. 238-239

Notes
Reset; based on the Houghton Mifflin 1980 First Edition.

1st Printing: September, 1988
2nd Printing: February, 1989
3rd Printing: August, 1989
4th Printing: ?
5th Printing: June, 1990
6th Printing: ?
7th Printing: August, 1991
8th Printing: March, 1992
9th Printing: November, 1992
10th Printing: September, 1993*

At least thirty printings issued.

With the 19th or 20th Printing the “Fifty Years of Tolkien…” statement was removed from the front cover.

RRP: $5.95$5.99 with the 8th Printing; $6.99 by the 20th Printing.

*Beginning with the 11th Printing a number line was used to indicate the print number.