The Two Towers (1988)

The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
1988 Houghton Mifflin Edition, 19th Printing
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston

ISBN-10: 0395489334
ISBN-13: 9780395489338
Hardcover in dust-jacket
352 pp.
Cover illustration by Alan Lee
Hammond Page Ref.: p. 162

Notes
19th Printing: March 3, 1988

In use from the 19th Printing until at least the 52nd Printing.

Also issued as a Book Club Edition. This can be distinguished from the trade edition by the lack of a number line on its copyright page.

For the 20th Printing, a barcode was added to the dust-jacket’s back cover. Further changes were made to the dust-jacket for the 21st Printing (April, 1991) including the addition of the Tolkien monogram at the top of the spine.

The runes on the front cover of the dust-jacket read (in order of top, bottom, right side, left side): ‘ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL, ONE RING TO FIND THEM, ONE RING TO BRING THEM ALL AND, IN THE DARKNESS BIND THEM’.

Jacket price: $16.95; $18.95 with the 21st Printing; $21.95 by the 30th Printing$22.00 by the 34th Printing. Sold in a set with The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King.


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