Book. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin . Published: 1981. First Edition. Comments: Edited by Humphrey Carpenter with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien. Black cloth with gilt illustration, very good, bumped to spine and one corner. Dust jacket in new Brodart clear protective cover, very good-, sunned to spine and edge, remains of label to corner, price unclipped. Pages very good+. Binding sound and tight.