Great acquisitions northman !
Wonderful hardback edition of 1915 OP and Hobbit 16th printing ! Welcome to the club.

Raoul Duke : magnificent. I'm still missing this one, hope for a decent price one day...

Really nice Tree and Leaf 1988 edition here. I think these are pretty rare, but I'm not so sure. It almost feels brand new in real life. Beautiful little book.

Good find - that a lovely copy of an edition which I rarely see.

Absolutely incredible Atlas here. Just stole this thing off Ebay! Sorry if any of you were looking at it.

I couldn't let that pass up. Gonna look great next to my HoME.

1st printing too.

I've recently gathered some copies of publications with contemporary reviews of LOTR:

- W.H. Auden reviewing ROTK for the New York Times Book Review - lovely full page spread with the cover art for the HMCO dust jacket.

- W.H. Auden reviewing FOTR for Encounter magazine (a copy of the New York Times Book Review with his review is also on its way to me).

- Naomi Mitchison reviewing FOTR for The New Statesman and Nation (see Letters #154 and #155).

- The novelist Howard Spring reviewing FOTR in Country Life Magazine.

- H.A. Blair reviewing TT and ROTK for Theology (it seems Blair was an acquaintance of C.S. Lewis).

In praise of local charity book shops.

In amongst all the wonderful and rare items this thread reveals, I thought I would show something that I guess we all know, which is that local charity bookshops can be a mine of interesting Tolkien books and I have purchased a fair number from my local one over the last year, shown here. None are especially rare, but all have been of low cost. The most expensive was £50, two others were above £10 each and the rest probably averaged £5-6 each.

None were already in my collection (if I also count different impressions) and I was very pleased to find them.

Roccondil wrote:

In praise of local charity book shops.

Couldn't agree more Roccondil. I've found a couple really great items in the past from charity shops that I hadn't seen anywhere else.

Roccondil wrote:

In praise of local charity book shops.

In amongst all the wonderful and rare items this thread reveals, I thought I would show something that I guess we all know, which is that local charity bookshops can be a mine of interesting Tolkien books and I have purchased a fair number from my local one over the last year, shown here. None are especially rare, but all have been of low cost. The most expensive was £50, two others were above £10 each and the rest probably averaged £5-6 each.

None were already in my collection (if I also count different impressions) and I was very pleased to find them.

Nice finds! Charity shops are a great place to frequent - you never know what you might find.

Urulókë wrote:

Roccondil wrote:

In praise of local charity book shops.

In amongst all the wonderful and rare items this thread reveals, I thought I would show something that I guess we all know, which is that local charity bookshops can be a mine of interesting Tolkien books and I have purchased a fair number from my local one over the last year, shown here. None are especially rare, but all have been of low cost. The most expensive was £50, two others were above £10 each and the rest probably averaged £5-6 each.

None were already in my collection (if I also count different impressions) and I was very pleased to find them.

Nice finds! Charity shops are a great place to frequent - you never know what you might find.

The guy I bought my 1988 tree and leaf from said he found it at a flea market for $1.

And it's in perfect condition lol.

Thanks to Berelach, I was able to complete my collection of double-signed Children of Húrin by acquiring a US edition from the New York release event, to go with my two UK editions from the UK release event and the Super-deluxe edition.

I like the fact that they all different heights