Publisher's quarter blue cloth binding with gray paper sides
with lightest of wear to the covers
Oscar and Lucinda won the 1988 Booker Prize and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award
light discolouration around the opening
pale green and dark green hand-made endleaves
The Silmarillion Agatha Christie Publisher's quarter blue cloth bindingThe Silmarillion, by J. R. R. Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977. First edition (British), first printing, the domestic edition, printed by Billing & Sons, priced 4. 95 to the inner front flap of the (unclipped) dust jacket. An export issue, printed by William Clowes, was published simultaneously. Octavo, 365 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped on spine in gilt with lettering and heraldic device of Lthien Tinviel after a drawing by Tolkien.