The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
1978 Houghton Mifflin Edition, 14th Printing
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
ISBN: 0395082560
Hardcover in dust-jacket
5-444 pp.
Cover illustration based on a design by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien Collector Ref.: Issue no. 16, p. 27
Notes
14th Printing: March, 22, 1978*
15th Printing: May, 1978
16th Printing: December, 1978
17th Printing: 1984
The 13th and 15th Printings were issued as a Book Club Edition.* These can be distinguished from the trade editions by the lack of a printed price on the front flap of the dust-jacket. Additionally, the jacket’s back cover is blank.
This edition is similar to the 1986 Book Club Edition and the 1987 Revised Edition but can be distinguished from them by the following features: page top edges stained, headband, ISBN and ‘6-97073’ printed on bottom right corner of jacket’s back cover, color of boards, spine design and copyright page (with number line). The book club edition for this 1978 Edition shares these attributes except for that the jacket’s back cover is blank.
Jacket price: $10.95 (14th Printing); $11.95 (16th Printing); $14.95 (17th Printing). Sold in a set with The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.
*The first book club edition printing with this cover was the 13th Printing. There was no 13th Printing of a trade edition with this cover.
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