Emilien wrote:

Nice !!!

Congratulations Max

Your 1st HoME set was not cheap, am I wrong ?

It wasn't cheap at all but I'd say it was worth it.

Great stuff Max!

I saw a 1st LOTR on ebay the other day...I wish I would have known, I would have sent it your way.

Mr. Underhill wrote:

Great stuff Max!

I saw a 1st LOTR on ebay the other day...I wish I would have known, I would have sent it your way.

Really? Must have missed it even though I look every day. How much did it sell for?

I'll wait for the next one...

Max wrote:

Mr. Underhill wrote:

Great stuff Max!

I saw a 1st LOTR on ebay the other day...I wish I would have known, I would have sent it your way.

Really? Must have missed it even though I look every day. How much did it sell for?

I'll wait for the next one...

Not sure if it sold or not, it was listed in a set of a few other firsts for a couple thousand dollars...

Found it

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JRR Tolkien 1st Printing Deluxe Editions Unfinished Tales Lord Of The Rings set

233938468977

Seller: watchd0g

(68)

Ended Mar 28, 2021

This item ended more than 90 days ago

Oh yeah I saw it but I already own all other books in the listing.

Thanks anyway.

I broke one of my own rules and I took a shot at $20 USD and a stock photo and it actually paid off!

Tree & Leaf: UnwinHyman '88

Wow! Nice find Mr. Underhill!

Nice shot Mr. Underhill ! :)
Did the same on abebooks 4 months ago without any visual (but the description was accurate)

This edition is really hard to find nowadays (only 1000 [@uruloke correction] 2000 copies), and first printing of Mythopoeia !
Now (if that's not the case yet) you have to find the 3 other UH edition of Farmer Giles, Tom Bombadil and Smith of Wooton Major, 1st printings, each limited to 1000 [@uruloke correction] 2000 copies...

Emilien wrote:

Nice shot Mr. Underhill ! :)
Did the same on abebooks 4 months ago without any visual (but the description was accurate)

This edition is really hard to find nowadays (only 1000 [@uruloke correction] 2000 copies), and first printing of Mythopoeia !
Now (if that's not the case yet) you have to find the 3 other UH edition of Farmer Giles, Tom Bombadil and Smith of Wooton Major, 1st printings, each limited to 1000 [@uruloke correction] 2000 copies...

Thanks Max and Emilien...someday! This one was hard enough to find :)

I didn’t know the Tree and Leaf was scarce. A couple of years ago I decided I wanted one and found a copy for 50NZD (25 pounds) about a week later. I must have been very lucky. Where does the 1000 copies information come from?