Here's the UK copyright... U.S. can be seen on my website.

Jeremy - It isn't supposed to have a link, but I keep it like that in hopes that TolkienBooks.net may someday be updated and I can link to it. It follows the same format as the rest of my site.

So clearly a Frances Lincoln produced book. And I read from those copyright's that the UK edition is the primary one.

Thanks for that discount on that US book, Jeremy!

So can someone (Jeremy?) please confirm the official publication date and release dates for each version? I'm a bit confused as I had both pre-ordered and received my UK copy on May 20 (Book Depository) and my US copy on June 13 (Amazon).

I will dig in and find out. The “official” date is June 9th from both, but I know that Princeton was shipping these for direct orders in early May (my copy shipped May 13th but others shipped a few days before that, May 10th or earlier).