The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Selected and edited by Humphrey Carpenter
with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien
1981 First U.S. Edition
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
ISBN: 0395315557
Hardcover in dust-jacket
x, 470 pp.
Cover design by G.G. Laurens*
Hammond Page Ref.: pp. 351-352
Notes
Typeset chiefly as for the Allen & Unwin 1981 First Edition.
This collection includes 354 letters, and extracts from letters and draft letters written by J.R.R. Tolkien.
1st Printing: October 15, 1981 – 100,000 copies**
2nd Printing: 1991 – 3,000 copies
Jacket price: $16.95.
*A letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Charles Furth at Allen & Unwin (dated February 4, 1938) is printed in facsimile on the back cover of the dust-jacket. The same letter is printed as a frontispiece in the Allen & Unwin 1981 First Edition.
**Many copies of the 1st Printing were remaindered due to poor sales.
