Was chatting with James Tauber and Trotter last night on Twitter about book club editions of The Book of Lost Tales Part 1 US book club editions (bce) - Berelach has put together a fantastic list of eight variants seen of these over on tolkienbooks.us. I was somehow unaware of this table, and did not know there were so many variants!

One of my bce copies doesn't appear on that table, so I thought I would mention it here:

  • Copyright page: lacks ISBN
  • Jacket front flap: 'Book Club Edition' present
  • Jacket back cover/ book club number: 02005
  • Binding: paper over boards, black paper spine
  • Book's spine lettering: green
  • Fore-edge: deckle edge
  • Gutter code p. 297): BB4


Anyone else have a copy of this and a variant not listed on the table linked above?