Octavo. Black cloth covered boards and spine wwith shiny gilt lettering and

Octavo. Black cloth covered boards and spine wwith shiny gilt lettering and shiny violet foil ornament on the spine and a shiny gilt and violet foil ring/eye of Sauron illustration on the front board. Book has a very slight bumping at the head and tail of the spine. Light violet endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 440 pages. Folded map laid into the rear of the book, as well as a tall slender strip of white paper still fixed onto the free rear endpaper where it was once affixed. Dust Jacket-has very light rubbing at the hedad and tail of the spine and just the faintest trace of rubbing at the extreme tips of the outside corners. Some light accompanying wrinkles on the bottom 2/3" of the tail of the spine-now flat. Faint scratch on the rear cover. Printed $10.95 price on the upper corner of the front inside flap. Slight musty scent. Not perfect, but a clean, tight, attractive copy of the third book in Tolkien's famous fantasy story cycle.