Tolkien: A Biography
Humphrey Carpenter
1988 Houghton Mifflin Edition
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
ISBN: 0395486769
Trade paperback
viii, 328 pp.
Photographs by various
Hammond Page Ref.: pp. 334-335
Notes
Includes a large number of previously unpublished extracts from letters, poems and other writings by Tolkien together with a reproduction of a page from the manuscript of The Lord of the Rings.
1st Printing: October 28, 1988 – 7,500 copies
Two printings issued.
RRP: $8.95; $10.95 with the 2nd Printing.
