Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
John Garth
2003 First U.S. Edition
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston / New York
ISBN-10: 0618331298
ISBN-13: 9780618331291
Hardcover in dust-jacket
xviii, 398 pp.
Jacket photograph © Imperial War Museum
Photographs by various; illustrations by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien Collector Ref.: Issue no. 28, p. 14
Notes
Typeset as for the HarperCollins 2003 First Edition.
Includes numerous quotations from unpublished correspondence, diaries and notebooks. Also quotes (mostly only in part) from many pieces of early poetry, some of which were previously unpublished or hard to find. In 2014 Garth published an expanded account of Tolkien’s time at Exeter College: Tolkien at Exeter College: How an Oxford undergraduate created Middle-earth.
1st Printing: December 1, 2003
Two printings issued.
Jacket price: $26.00.
