First edition. Octavo. Publisher’s pictorial paper covered boards, with a full-colour wraparound design illustrated by Pauline Baynes, in the original dustwrapper of the same design.
 
Illustrated by Pauline Baynes in line and with full-page illustrations in black and orange.
 
A near fine copy in a bright, very good dustwrapper, a couple of closed tears to the upper panel.
 
The final book set in Middle-Earth to be published in Tolkien’s lifetime.