volume one: "the fellowship of the ring" (1954), q.v. for listing of the whole work, and links.
cover art and interior b+w illustration by jack gaughan (credited and art signed)
cover price 75¢
448pp? including titles, indica etc.
no statement of copyright as ace books' case for being able to publish their editions of the three books depended upon the at least defencible claim that houghton mifflin, tolkien's merkin publishers, had inadvertently put the work into the u.s. public domain by infringement of merkin copyright law.