You may be right - the ISBN Amazon has (First in my previous post) appears to be an old one. Also only the "mustard" one is listed on tolkien.co.uk

http://www.tolkien.co.uk/titles/83935 ... r-r-tolkien-9780007523221

It seems like you have a special interest in Silmarillions, Khamûl? Or maybe it's just me misinterpreting you...

See, this is the problem I have with Amazon: their lackadaisical attitude to the most simple of details; & the ongoing caveat of "this is the information provided by the publisher". They're even different prices!

As Trotter says, there appears to only be a 448 pg., mustard coloured, ISBN 978-0007523221 copy. Therefore the Amazon entry, with mustard cover, is in error in regard to the number of pages. It's also not anywhere near 3.4cm thick. The other "edition", with ISBN which probably doesn't exist in any copies (or with that cover), doesn't even have a thickness dimension. The other dimensions are pretty close. It's not inconceivable that Amazon don't know what a ruler is...

You are indeed misinterpreting me, Morgan. In fact, I'm not sure if I quite understand what you're implying?!

BH

Jemima Catlin on Twitter

I will be at Oxonmoot 20th-21st Sept talking about my work & showing some illustrations for the new ed of The Hobbit

A good opportunity to get my books signed

Why release this rubbish?

http://www.tolkien.co.uk/titles/83973 ... r-r-tolkien-9780007525539

Horrible copy, no way that I will buy this edition

The Hobbit: Pocket Hardback

The classic bestseller behind this year’s epic second instalment The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, now in a perfectly-sized pocket hardback. This new film tie-in edition features the complete story of Bilbo Baggins’ adventures in Middle-earth, with a striking cover image from Peter Jackson’s film trilogy and drawings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Pub Date: 07 November 2013

Format: Hardback Film tie-in edition
ISBN: 978-0-00-752553-9
Price: £9.99

To answer your first question: for Christmas perhaps?

BH

I don't think most of the regulars here are the target market for movie tie-in editions...

Is a nice painting on the cover if you are a movie fan.

Yep, won't be getting that one!

Stu wrote:

Trotter wrote:
I suspect it is the same Pocket book as last year, but with a film cover on it. If so I doubt it will be on Stu's Xmas list.

Bah!!! Humbug!!! etc.

Stu wrote:
Yep, won't be getting that one!

I was right

Urulöké wrote:

I don't think most of the regulars here are the target market for movie tie-in editions... Is a nice painting on the cover if you are a movie fan.

Ok, but the bookcover for me is nowhere near as good as J.R.R. Tolkien's cover, so why not stick with one of the acknowledged best Dust jackets ever made?

Trotter wrote:

Stu wrote:

Trotter wrote:
I suspect it is the same Pocket book as last year, but with a film cover on it. If so I doubt it will be on Stu's Xmas list.

Bah!!! Humbug!!! etc.

Stu wrote:
Yep, won't be getting that one!

I was right

Urulöké wrote:

I don't think most of the regulars here are the target market for movie tie-in editions... Is a nice painting on the cover if you are a movie fan.

Ok, but the bookcover for me is nowhere near as good as J.R.R. Tolkien's cover, so why not stick with one of the acknowledged best Dust jackets ever made?

I'm definitely predictable!

I think the main issue I have with the branding of the movie stuff is that I really don't like the movie logo at all. The Lord of The Rings branding wasn't quite as nasty, but the Hobbit title looks horrible. And hell will freeze over before I buy a book that has "Now a major motion picture" on the cover!