Tree and Leaf
J.R.R. Tolkien
1965 First U.S. Edition
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
ISBN: 0395082536*
Hardcover in dust-jacket
[2], viii, 118 pp.
Cover illustration by Robert Quackenbush
Hammond Page Ref.: pp. 191-192
Notes
Typeset based on the Allen & Unwin 1965 First Edition.
Brings together Tolkien’s essay/lecture On Fairy Stories (first published in Essays Presented to Charles Williams, 1947) with his short story Leaf by Niggle (first published in The Dublin Review, 1945).
1st Printing: March 3, 1965 – 4,500 copies
2nd Printing: March, 1965
3rd Printing: April, 1966
4th Printing: January, 1974
5th Printing: September, 1976
6th Printing: November, 1977
Eight printings issued.
The dark blue binding was changed to red with the 5th Printing.
Jacket price: $4.00; $4.50 with the 4th Printing; $7.95 with the 5th Printing; $8.95 with the 7th Printing; $9.95 with the 8th Printing.
*ISBN assigned with the 4th Printing and moved from the copyright page to the dust-jacket’s back cover with the 7th Printing.
