Middle Earth – US Tolkien Bibliography

1938 – The Hobbit – 1st Edition – Hardcover in Dust-Jacket – Houghton Mifflin Company

See here for details in Hobbit First Editions: https://www.tolkienbooks.us/hob/us/hc/the-hobbit-1938

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1948 – An Inheritance of Poetry (Goblin Feet, Hobbit: Riddles in the Dark, Road Goes Ever On, Lullaby for Bilbo Baggins) – 1st Edition – Hardcover in Dust-Jacket – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Goblin Feet, Hobbit excerpt: Riddles, Song: Road Goes Ever on, Poem: Lullaby for Bilbo Baggins.

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1959 – Anthology of Children’s Literature (Riddles in the Dark) – 1st Tolkien Content Edition [3rd Revised] – Hard Cover with Dustjacket – Houghton Mifflin Company

This is technically the 3rd edition of the anthology but it is the first one with Tolkien content.

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1962 – Wonder Lands (Hobbit First Chapter) – 1st Edition – Hardcover– Golden Press

This has two simultaneously released variants and I am including both here in one entry. The variant with the blue spine has heavy duty construction and was meant for institutional use.

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1964 – Roads To Follow (Roads Go Ever On) – 1st Edition – Hardcover– Scott Foresman and Company

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1965 – Roads To Follow (Roads Go Ever On) – 1965 Edition – Hardcover– Scott Foresman and Company

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1966 – The Golden Treasury of Children’s Literature (The Hobbit First Chapter) – 1st Edition – Hard Cover with Dustjacket – Western Publishing

This book took and combined selected chapters from the earlier The Golden Treasury of Children’s Literature series and combined them into an omnibus edition.

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1968 – J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit Script (Printed Narrative Adaptation) – 1st Edition – Booklet – Dramatic Publishing

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1970– Anthology of Children’s Literature (Riddles in the Dark) – 4th Edition – Hard Cover with Dustjacket – Houghton Mifflin Company

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1971 – The Golden Treasury of Children’s Literature (The Hobbit First Chapter) – 1971 Edition – Hard Cover with Dustjacket – Western Publishing

This book took and combined selected chapters from the earlier The Golden Treasury of Children’s Literature series and combined them into an omnibus edition. This variant has additional text on the cover.

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1972 – To Turn a Stone (Riddles in the Dark) – 1st Edition – Hardcover– Ginn and Co

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1975 – A Tolkien Compass (Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings) – 1st Edition – Hardcover with Dustjacket – Open Court Publishing Company

Contains an essay titled “Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings”. It has in the first three editions of the book but removed from later editions. Tolkien originally wrote this guide to assist translators of The Lord of the Rings. He was reacting to some early foreign editions (specifically the first Dutch

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1975 – A Tolkien Compass (Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings) – Open Court Paperback Edition – Trade Paperback – Open Court Publishing Company

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1976 – Kingdoms of Sorcery (The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm) – 1st Edition – Hardcover with Dustjacket– Doubleday

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1979 – Whitman The Lord of the Rings Coloring Book (Printed Narrative Adaptation) – 1st Edition – Booklet – Western Publishing Company

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1980 – A Tolkien Compass (Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings) – Random House Paperback Edition – Mass Market Paperback – Random House Publishing Group

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1985 – The Golden Treasury of Children’s Literature (The Hobbit First Chapter) – 1985 Edition – Hard Cover with Dustjacket – Golden Books

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1985– Anthology of Children’s Literature (Riddles in the Dark) – 5th Edition – Hard Cover with Dustjacket – Houghton Mifflin Company

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1996 – The Hobbit: An Adventure Play (Printed Narrative Adaptation) – 1st Edition – Booklet – Dramatic Publishing

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2017 – A Poem for Every Day of the Year (All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter) – 1st Edition – Hard Cover with Dustjacket – Macmillan Press

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2022 – J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript (Manuscripts and Artwork) – 1st Edition – Hardcover – Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University

From : https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/J.R.R._Tolkien:_The_Art_of_the_Manuscript J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript is an exhibition catalogue which accompanies an 2022 exhibition of the same name. The exhibition was held between 19 August and 23 December 2022, organized collaboratively by Marquette University’s Raynor Memorial Libraries and the Haggerty Museum of Art, curated by Tolkien Archivist William M. Fliss

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2022 – J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript (Manuscripts and Artwork) – Paperback Edition – Paperback – Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University

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