The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien
Edited by Christopher Tolkien
1977 First U.S. Edition
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
ISBN-10: 0395257301
ISBN-13: 9780395257302
Hardcover in dust-jacket
120, [2], 121-366 pp.
Cover illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien (colored by H.E. Riddett)
Hammond Page Ref.: pp. 221-223
Notes
Typeset chiefly as for the Allen & Unwin 1977 First Edition.
Published September 15, 1977.
1st Printing: August, 1977* – 325,000 copies
2nd Printing: August, 1977*
3rd Printing: September, 1977*
4th Printing: September, 1977*
5th Printing: September, 1977
6th Printing: September, 1977
7th Printing: October, 1977
8th Printing: October, 1977
9th Printing: October, 1977
10th Printing: October, 1977
11th Printing: November, 1977
12th Printing: November, 1977
Multiple printers were used for the 1st Printing. There are two variants** (no priority):
1. Page 229 shows loss of text on right edge of type block.
2. Page 229 is undamaged.
All 1st Printings have a misprint on page 3 (‘Father Giles‘ for ‘Farmer Giles‘); this was corrected for the 2nd Printing.
Also issued as a Book Club Edition. This can be distinguished from the trade edition by having one or more of the following: a blind stamp on the back board, no price on the inside jacket flap, no ISBN on the jacket’s back cover The copyright pages are identical to the trade edition (some printings show a gutter code). A similar book club edition was published the following year: 1978 Book Club Edition.
Jacket price: $10.95. In 1981 surplus copies of this edition were remaindered at a sale price of $3.98 (Beyond Bree, September 1981, p. 9).
*The first four printings were printed before publication.
**A total of five variants have been noted in Hammond’s Bibliography with the first being a publisher’s advance copy. Of the other four, one is as variant 2 above while the other three are subtle variations within variant 1 above concerning the color of the paper and color of the gold/silver/copper stamping on the binding.
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