Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1977, 2^nd pr.  ISBN 0-395-25730-1.  Hard cover, 365 pages including Index and Appendix.  Green cloth with gold decoration on front board, silver and gold on spine.  Corners show wear, with tiny loss to cloth at lower front corner; some soil/spots on boards; binding sound with headbands and red top stain; no jacket.  Interior clean and unmarked; black & white map plus folded map affixed to rear end paper.  ‘… an account of the Elder Days or the First Age of the World … legends deriving from a much deeper past, when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils.’ (from Foreword)