1917-1930
(In)
Oxford Poetry 1914-1916 (1917 Blackwell)
- contains 'Goblin Feet'
A Middle English Vocabulary (1922 OUP)
(1922 OUP, US)
(Ed)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1925 OUP)
(1925 OUP, US)
- with E V Gordon
The Devil's Coach-Horses (1925 Review of English Studies)
1931-1960
Songs for the Philologists (1936 Privately printed)
Beowulf : The Monsters and the Critics (1936 OUP)
(1972 Folcroft Editions)
The Hobbit or There and Back Again (1937 Allen & Unwin)
(1938 Houghton Mifflin)
Farmer Giles of Ham (1949 Allen & Unwin)
(1950 HM)
1961-1970
Ancrene Wisse (1962 OUP)
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil & Other Verses from the Red Book
(1962 Allen & Unwin)
(1963 HM)
- Pauline Baynes
Tree and Leaf (1964 A & U)
(1965 HM)
- essay
The Tolkien Reader (1966 Ballantine NY)
Smith of Wootton Manor (1967 A & U)
(1967 HM)
- Pauline Baynes
The Road Goes Ever On (1967 HM)
(1968 George Allen)
- verse, with music by Donald Swann
1971-1980
Bilbo's Last Song (1974 HM)
(1974 A & U)
- poster poem
(Trans)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (1975 A & U)
(1975 HM)
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth (1975 A & U)
The Father Christmas Letters (1976 A & U)
(1976 HM)
The Silmarillon (1977 A & U)
(1977 HM)
Pictures by J R R Tolkien (1979 A & U)
(in US as "The Pictures of J R R Tolkien" 1979 HM)
Poems and Stories (1980 A & U)
(1980 HM)
Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle Earth (1980 A & U)
(1980 HM)
1981 Onwards
Letters of (1981 A & U)
(1981 HM)
Mrs Bliss (1982 A & U)
(1983 HM)
Finn and Hengest : The Fragment and the Episode (1983 A & U)
(1983 HM)
The Monster and the Critics (1983 A & U)
(1983 HM)
The Book of Lost Tales : Part 1 (1983 A & U)
(1984 HM)
The Book of Lost Tales : Part 2 (1984 A & U)
(1984 HM)
The Book of Lost Tales : Part 3 (1985 A & U)
(1985 HM)
The Book of Lost Tales : Part 4 (1986 A & U)
(1986 HM)
The Lost Road & Other Writings (1987 Unwin Hyman)
(1987 HM)
The Return of the Shadow (1988 UH)
(1988 HM)
Treason in Isengard (1989 UH)
(1989 HM)
Lord of the Rings (1991 Harper Collins)
(1991 HM)
- New Edition. Alan Lee
Letters from Father Christmas (1995 Collins)
- edited by Baillie Tolkien
Roverandom (1998 Harper Collins £12.99)
[Originally written in 1937 but not published]
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Fellowship of the Ring, being the First Part of Lord of the Rings (1954 Allen & Unwin)
(1954 HM)
The Two Towers, being the Second Part of Lord of the Rings (1954 Allen & Unwin)
(1955 HM)
UK First offered in 1995 for £2500
The Return of the King, being the Third Part of Lord of the Rings (1955 Allen & Unwin)
(1956 HM)
Complete Set of First Editions (1954-5 Allen & Unwin)
- 3 vols
Offered in 2002 for £26.600
First Combined Edition (1962 Allen & Unwin)
- 3 vols in grey box
De Luxe Combined Edition (1964 Allen & Unwin)
- 3 vols boxed and decorated by Pauline Baynes
The Lord of the Rings (1960 A & U)
- 3 vols in slipcase
The Lord of the Rings (1966 A & U)
(1967 HM)
- revised edition
The Lord of the Rings (1977
Folio Society)
- 3 vols. I Grathmer & E Fraser
[Filmed in 1978 & in three parts 2001-2003]
The Hobbit
The Hobbit or There and Back Again (1937 Allen & Unwin)
(1938 Houghton Mifflin)
- Author
[A UK copy with the rare dustjacket sold at Sotheby's in 1997 for £8000 & a signed edition
was offered in 2000 for £45,000
In 2002 a copy of the US First, minus d/w, was offered for £4000 ]
Second Impression (1938 Allen & Unwin)
- 4 new colour plates by Author
Second Edition (1951 Allen & Unwin)
First Paperback Edition (1961 Puffin)
Third (Revised)
Edition (1966 Allen & Unwin)
Schools Edition (1972 Allen & Unwin)
De Luxe Edition (1976 A & U)
- slipcase
First Folio Society Edition (1976 Folio)
- Eric Fraser. slipcase
Second Folio Society Edition (1979 Folio)
- Eric Fraser. slipcase
Michael Hague Edition (1984 Houghton Mifflin)
(1984 Allen & Unwin - "The Illustrated Hobbit")
50th Anniversary Edition (1987 Allen & Unwin)
De Luxe 50th Anniversary edition (1987 Allen & Unwin)
- leather binding. 500 copies
The Annotated Hobbit (1988 Unwin Hyman)
(1988 Houghton Mifflin)
Centenary edition (1991 Harper Collins)
The Hobbit : The Graphic Novel (1991 Grafton)
- David Wenzel
READING
Paul Kocher : Master of Middle-Earth - The Fiction of J R R Tolkien (1973 Thames & Hudson)
J E A Tyler : The New Tolkien Companion (1979 Macmillan)
Humphrey Carpenter : J R R Tolkien - A Biography (1977 Allen & Unwin)
Barbara Strachey : Journeys of Frodo : An Atlas of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
(1981 Allen & Unwin)
T A Shippey : The Road to Middle Earth (1982 Allen & Unwin)
John & Priscilla Tolkien : The Tolkien Family Album (1992 Houghton Mifflin $24.95)
Wayne G Hammond & Douglas A Anderson : J R R Tolkien - A Descriptive Bibliography
(1993 St Paul's Bibliographies)
David Day : Tolkien's Ring (1994 Harper Collins £17.99)
- Alan Lee
Brian Sibley & John Howe : There and Back Again - The Map of The Hobbit
(1995 Harper Collins £4.99)
Joseph Pearce : Tolkien - Man and Myth (1998 Harper Collins £16.99)
Tom Shippey : J R R Tolkien - Author of the Century (2000 Harper Collins £16.99)
Michael White : Tolkien - A Biography (2001 Little Brown £16.99)
John Garth : Tolkien and the Great War - The Threshold of Middle-Earth (2003 Harper Collins £20)