By
Stu
6 Dec, 2015
(edited)Edited by Stu on 2015-12-6 6:49:46 AM UTC
2015-12-6 3:19:04 AM UTC
Hi All, Does anyone happen to know what price was printed on the 1942 Hobbit DJ. I know it was 7s. 6d. NET on the 1946, but I'm imagining it was potentially a lesser amount on the '42?
6 Dec, 2015
2015-12-6 7:24:23 AM UTC
All four of the GA&U first edition Hobbits were 7s6d.
The Foyles edition was 2s6d.
The first hardback price rise was the 5th edition (1951) which was one shilling more, 8s6d.
6 Dec, 2015
2015-12-6 8:09:37 AM UTC
Trotter wrote:
All four of the GA&U first edition Hobbits were 7s6d.
The Foyles edition was 2s6d.
The first hardback price rise was the 5th edition (1951) which was one shilling more, 8s6d.
Marvellous. I knew you would have the answer (on account of having all the books!!!)
6 Dec, 2015
2015-12-6 2:38:19 PM UTC
I now have the first thirty GA&U hardback impressions (with Tolkien's design for the dust-jacket), from 1937 to the 50th Anniversary edition in 1987, and am stopping there, sadly two of these copies are price-clipped so am still looking for better copies
6 Dec, 2015
2015-12-6 9:43:01 PM UTC
You don't have a
first impression do you?
BH
7 Dec, 2015
2015-12-7 5:18:35 AM UTC
Khamûl wrote:
You don't have a first impression do you?
BH
Yes I do :)
8 Dec, 2015
2015-12-8 9:08:57 AM UTC
I suspect that Trotter is as Mad as a lorry.
Khamul isn't much better with his Silmarillions, mind...
8 Dec, 2015
2015-12-8 7:17:27 PM UTC
The only time I have actually heard anyone say it was on Chris Morris' controversial spoof news show, "Brass Eye" back in the late 90s, where Chris was interviewing notorious London gangster "Mad Frankie Fraser" (who didn't know it was a spoof). He asked him a series of questions and asked him to rate each question as to how mad it would make him, on a scale which had "Mad as a Lorry" at the upper end.
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