The Fellowship of the Ring (1967)

The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
1967 Second Edition
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
Library of Congress CC#: 67-12274*
ISBN: 0395082544
Hardcover in dust-jacket
iv, 428 pp.
Cover illustration by Robert Quackenbush
Hammond Page Ref.: pp. 139-141

Notes
Revised; typeset as for the Allen & Unwin 1966 Second Edition.

1st Printing: February 27, 1967** – 13,300 copies
2nd Printing: March, 1967
3rd Printing: May, 1968
4th Printing: October, 1968
5th Printing: November, 1969
6th Printing: November, 1970
7th Printing: July, 1971
8th Printing: March, 1972
9th Printing: December, 1972
10th Printing: October, 1973
11th Printing: March, 1974
12th Printing: November, 1974
13th Printing: July, 1976
14th Printing: April, 1977

Several printings (4th-12th, 14th)*** were issued as a Book Club Edition by the Book-of-the-Month Club (starting December, 1969). These can be distinguished from the trade editions by the lack of a printed price on the front flap of the dust-jacket.

The runes bordering the central panel on the front cover of the dust-jacket read (repeating): ‘THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRANSLATED FROM THE RED BOOK’.

Jacket price: $6.00; $6.50 (5th Printing$7.50 (8th Printing); $8.50 (11th Printing); $9.95 (13th Printing). Sold in a set with The Two Towers and The Return of the King.

*The copyright page for the 3rd-13th Printings erroneously gives this number as 67-12275 (the same number used for The Return of the King).

**Although the copyright date given is 1966 (1965 in later printings), the correct date of publication is 1967.

***The 7th and 12th Printings have been seen only as a Book Club Edition.

 


 
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