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.
I have , but never read - will I read ? the three books in paperback as a tri-set. well it should have been but my cousin lost one and I got an alternate from elsewhere, will the three fit in the card binding - nope - I wonder why (this comment is from another edition of this book)