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19 Nov, 2021
2021-11-19 7:53:26 PM UTC
The UK 2nd Impression Hobbit is probably my favourite GA&U edition. I love the colour illustrations, whilst the US firsts are nice I don't like the weird 'butchering' of the colour illustrations that took place.

I also like the dust-wrapper 'blurb' in the 2nd Impression, which was only ever used for this one printing.

If you have one of these without a dust-jacket then make sure that you get a 2nd Impression facsimile and not a 1st Impression facsimile.
19 Nov, 2021
2021-11-19 10:47:42 PM UTC
Congratulations Mr Hobbit LanceFormation !!
23 Nov, 2021
2021-11-23 1:38:09 AM UTC
And they arrived in one piece (despite just being sent in a bubble-wrap bag....)

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23 Nov, 2021
2021-11-23 3:07:54 AM UTC

Stu wrote:

And they arrived in one piece (despite just being sent in a bubble-wrap bag....)

Fortunately! they seem to be in very good condition despite the "poor" packaging ?
23 Nov, 2021
2021-11-23 4:38:31 AM UTC

ShadowFx wrote:

Stu wrote:

And they arrived in one piece (despite just being sent in a bubble-wrap bag....)

Fortunately! they seem to be in very good condition despite the "poor" packaging ?

Yeah, minor bump to the DJ of Bombadil in the indentation next to the spine, but otherwise no problems. My heart sank when I saw the bubble mailer, but I got lucky and they are really nice for 30 year old books. Very clearly unread.
23 Nov, 2021
2021-11-23 10:56:34 AM UTC
Awesome. I can imagine your reaction to the sight of the postman and his envelope ?... I wonder if some sellers know that they send books instead of slices of ham ?
24 Nov, 2021
2021-11-24 4:22:49 PM UTC

Stu wrote:

And they arrived in one piece (despite just being sent in a bubble-wrap bag....)

Stu do they have the adhesive label pasted to the copyright page? Mine do, which is, I think most common to these editions.
26 Nov, 2021
2021-11-26 6:56:24 PM UTC
A busy autumn.

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26 Nov, 2021
2021-11-26 7:22:15 PM UTC
Very nice northman !! Congrats !
26 Nov, 2021
2021-11-26 7:30:54 PM UTC
Loving the look of that Leaf by Niggle. Can you give us some details on it please, Northman.
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