Selected and edited by Humphrey Carpenter with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien 1981 First U.S. Edition Houghton Mifflin Company Boston ISBN: 0395315557 Hardcover in dust-jacket x, 470 pp. Cover design by G.G. Laurens* Hammond Page Ref.: pp. 351-352 Notes Typeset chiefly as for the Allen & Unwin 1981 First Edition. This collection includes 354 letters, and extracts from letters and draft letters written by J.R.R. Tolkien. Jacket price: $16.95. *A letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Charles Furth at Allen & Unwin (dated February 4, 1938) is printed in facsimile on the back cover of the dust-jacket. The same letter is printed as a frontispiece in the Allen & Unwin 1981 First Edition.