Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
John Garth
2005 First U.S. Paperback Edition, 2nd Printing
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston / New York
ISBN-10: 0618574816*
ISBN-13: 9780618574810
Trade paperback
xviii, 400 pp.
Cover photograph © Imperial War Museum
Photographs by various; illustrations by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien Collector Ref.: Issue no. 28, p. 14
Notes
Includes numerous quotations from unpublished correspondence, diaries and notebooks. Also quotes (mostly only in part) from many pieces of early poetry, some of which were previously unpublished or hard to find.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.
At least fifteen printings issued and is available new.
RRP: $14.00; $14.95 with the 3rd Printing; $31.95.
*The ISBN for the 2003 Hardcover Edition (0618331298) is erroneously stated on the copyright page. The correct ISBN (0618574816) is stated on the back cover. This may be an indication that the sheets of this paperback book actually come from unused copies of the 2003 Hardcover Edition, 2nd Printing.
