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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Second edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Near Fine. 3 vol. 8vo. [7], 6-423, [5]; [6], 9-352; Black cloth with an orange and gold design (the ring and the eye of Sauron) on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; orange topstain. Black cloth with a red and gold design on the front board (the eye of Sauron on the ring), gold lettering on the spine; red topstain. Black cloth with a purple and gold design (the same design as the other two volumes) on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Housed in a black paper slipcase with a red paper label printed in green. Price of $6.00 on each jacket's front flap. Jacket designs by Robert Quackenbush. The first volume illustrated with a few full-page maps and a fold-out map printed in red and black at the end of the volume. The second volume with the same map as the first, and the third volume illustrated with a chart and the same map in the rear. Hammond and Anderson A5f…

The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings by the English author J.R.R. Tolkien. It is followed by The Two Towers and The Return of the King. The story begins with the discovery of the One Ring, which had been lost for centuries, and follows a group of heroes who set out on a quest to destroy it and prevent the dark lord Sauron from fulfilling his malevolent designs.