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By remy
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Hompen 1947 - Two States of First Edition

11 Jul, 2022
2022-7-11 7:03:43 PM UTC

For anyone interested, there appears to be 2 states of the 1947 first swedish edition of the hobbit (Hompen).

The spacing between lines at the top of the copyright page is larger in one versus the other. And I can confirm this to be the case as I have both "states" in hand. Never noticed this before.

https://boklistor.se/wiki/index.php/Ho ... resa_Dit_och_Tillbaksigen
12 Jul, 2022
2022-7-12 9:01:57 AM UTC
That's interesting Remy. Will check mine when i get home from hollidays.
12 Jul, 2022
2022-7-12 3:23:20 PM UTC
I also found it interesting, thanks for sharing!
12 Jul, 2022
2022-7-12 6:03:13 PM UTC
Hi Remy, looks like my copy is 20mm in height

5090_62cdb74faeac7.jpeg 2801X1563 px
12 Jul, 2022
2022-7-12 7:31:42 PM UTC
The person who discovered this has recorded 5 with a spacing of 20mm and 4 with 28mm.

So yours makes it 6 to 4 at the moment.
13 Jul, 2022
2022-7-13 6:02:06 AM UTC
Hi Remy, looks like my copy is 28mm in height

2174_62ce5fcca2207.jpg 3804X2084 px
13 Jul, 2022
2022-7-13 7:28:47 AM UTC
My copy adds another with 20mm.
13 Jul, 2022
2022-7-13 7:42:01 PM UTC
Many thanks.

Another piece of information from UlfK (the author of the article - link in OP):

"Fiddling around with my copies over the weekend I also noted that the spine has the correct dwarf runes for "HOMPEN", but the runes on the map is not translated to swedish, even though the map is redrawn by Charles Sjöblom."
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