Lovely Copy with Original Dust Jacket & Folded Map Beautiful hardback copy with unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with coloured map, and large fold-out map at the rear. Published by Book Club Associations, London, 1977. Publisher’s original navy cloth board with gilt lettering on spine. The book and dust jacket are in very good condition. Firm and well-bound copy. A name with ink on inside front cover page. Bright and clean pages. The large map is complete and in excellent condition with slight closed tear to the margin (Please see pictures). Book Dimensions: 23.5 x 14.5 cm and Number of Pages: 365. ========================= The Silmarillion The Silmarillion is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic works, edited and published posthumously by his son, Christopher Tolkien, in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay, who later became a noted fantasy writer. The Silmarillion, along with J. R. R. Tolkien's other works, forms an extensive, though incomplete, narrative that describes the universe of Eä in which are found the lands of Valinor, Beleriand, Númenor, and Middle-earth within which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place. After the success of The Hobbit, Tolkien's publisher requested a sequel. Tolkien sent them an early draft of The Silmarillion but through a misunderstanding, the publisher rejected the draft without fully reading it. The result was that Tolkien began work on "A Long Expected Party", the first chapter of what he described at the time as "a new story about Hobbits", which became The Lord of the Rings =================================