An Illustrated Tolkien Bibliography The First Deluxe Edition
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The Lord of the Rings - First Deluxe Edition 1964

The Fellowship of the Ring.
The Two Towers.
The Return of the King.

First Deluxe Edition 1964.
George Allen & Unwin.
Hardbacks in slipcase.
Fold-out maps attached at rear.
22.8cm x 14.8 cm.
Hammond p.98.

Published: December 1964.

Price: £6.6s.0d.

A set of 1963 impressions of the sheets of the standard trade edition, bound in black buckram, and issued in a Pauline Baynes illustrated slipcase.

1,000 sets of books were bound in November 1964.

1,000 slipcases were produced in November or early December 1964 and 500 sets were boxed immediately.  Another 500 were boxed in October[?] 1965.

50 replacement slipcases were made in January 1967.

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