Books

Octavo [22.5 cm] Green leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and gilt stamped decorative patterns on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Moire endsheets. Satin ribbon page markers. With laid in maps. Prior owner's ex-libris sticker affixed to the front free endpaper or front pastedown of each volume. A few soft scratches to gilt textblock edges. A beautiful leatherbound edition of Tolkien's beloved fantasy series, with his own illustrations. This set would make a perfect gift for any Middle-earth devotee.

The Silmarillion is a collection of mythopoeic stories by the English writer J.R.R. Tolkien, edited and published posthumously by his son, Christopher Tolkien, in 1977, with assistance from fantasy fiction writer Guy Gavriel Kay. It is the primary source of Middle-earth's ancient history and provides a background to his other works, including 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'