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Harper Collins, 2108. ~Dustwrapper unfaded and unclipped. A little toning near top of fore-edges. No ownership marks. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. . 1st edn. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 302pp. 8 plates. Binding sound, text unmarked.

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Fall of Gondolin. Edited by Christopher Tolkien with illustrations by Alan Lee. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwë, chief of the Valar: he is called the Lord of Waters, of all seas, lakes, and rivers under the sky. But he works in secret in Middle-earth to support the Noldor, the kindred of the Elves among whom were numbered Húrin and Túrin Turambar. Following his presentation of Beren and Lúthien Christopher Tolkien has used the same 'history in sequence' mode in the writing of this edition of The Fall of Gondolin. In the words of J.R.R. Tolkien, it was 'the first real story of this imaginary world' and,… Read More