The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
1988 Houghton Mifflin Edition (Revised), 7th Printing
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
ISBN: 0395272211
Trade paperback in dust-jacket
456 pp.
Cover illustration by Alan Lee
Hammond Page Ref.: pp. 166-168
Notes
7th Printing: October, 1988
In use until at least the 16th Printing.
The Tolkien monogram was added the the top of the book’s spine for the 8th Printing (1991). The back cover of the dust-jacket for the 8th-12th Printings carried the Tolkien Centenary Logo.
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: $7.95; $9.95 by the 9th Printing; $10.95? by the 11th? Printing; $11.95 by the 15th Printing. Sold in a set with The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.
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