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Paul Kocher.
Master of Middle-Earth: The Achievement of J. R. R. Tolkien.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974 (previously issued in hardback 1972).
ISBN 0140038779.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the UK by Cox & Wyman.
Size: 110×180×13mm.
Size: 222pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the covers on this copy are scuffed and rubbed, its spine is slightly skewed, but not creased from reading; pages yellowed with age, a bit foxed on the edges; previous owners’ names on the half-title page, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

This item £4.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Pimlico reissue in print at £9.00]
Weight without packaging: 136g.

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Emphasis on Tolkien’s fiction rather than his academic work.

Contents: Middle-earth — an imaginary world?; The Hobbit; Cosmic order; Sauron & the nature of evil; The free peoples; Aragorn; Seven leaves.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 1 page (‘bibliographical note’)
Index: yes

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