Hi everyone, here are some of my acquisitions for the last months.
Upper row (from left to right)
- The Collected poems of J.R.R Tolkien (HC, 2024)
- The Lord of the rings Millenium Edition, unfaded spines, with CD (HC, 1999)
- The Hobbit, first japanese edition, second printing 1973. (First (1965) and second (1973) printings - the only ones published during Tolkien's lifetime are quite tricky to find)
- Tolkien on Chaucer (OUP, 2024)
- J.R.R Tolkien, scholar and storyteller, Essays in Memoriam (Cornell University Press, 1979), whith an unfaded spine. This appears to be a second printing, as printed on the copyright page. According to tolkienbooks.net (https://tolkienbooks.net/php/details2.php?id=800), we thought that only one printing was published, but it actually appears that there was at least one reprint.)
- Tolkien Studies Volume IV (West Virginia University Press, 2007), including texts by Tolkien (reprint of The Name ‘Nodens’; The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth: Philology and the Literary Muse by Thomas Honegger including extracts from unpublished drafts of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth; Ae Adar Nín, featuring handwritten notes by Tolkien on the back of a postcard give a partial translation of The Lords Prayer into Sindarin.)
- C.S. Lewis's Oxford (Bodleian Library, 2024)
Mid row :
- A dictionnary of chivalry, first edition (Prentice Hall Press, 1968) including many beautiful colour and B&W drawings by Pauline Baynes
- J.R.R Tolkien, A biography by Humphrey Carpenter (GA&U, 1977). Review copy, signed by H. Carpenter and addressed to Keith Brace, litterary editor at the Birmingham Post. Brace is known for interviewing Tolkien at his home in 1968 ("In the Footsteps of the Hobbits" , published in the Birmingham Post, 25 May 1968)
- The Hobbit (GA&U, 6th impression 1954)
- The Hobbit (GA&U, 10th impression 1958)
- The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1st edition, GA&U 1962), review copy with publisher slip, also addressed to Keith Brace. Love the 'S' missing to 'Adventure' on the publisher slip.
- Le Seigneur des Anneaux, 1978-79, Christian Bourgois Editeur. Very scarce french edition. This edition is a refurbishing of later prints of the first french edition from 1972, and rejacketed with Bakshi's movie visuals. These are very hard to find, especially volume 2. Volume 1 and 2 also exist with cardboards cover featuring Bakshi artwork (which are *a bit* more common).
Lower row :
- Viga-Glums Saga by G. Turville-Petre (First edition, OUP/Oxford English Monographs 1940). Tolkien was a General Editor for the series and is credited in the Preface.
- Origins of icelandic litterature by G. Turville-Petre (First edition, OUP 1953). Tolkien is credited and thanked in the preface.
- Shenandoah:Vol.18, No.2, Winter 1967, Washington and Lee University (A Tribute to Wystan Hugh Auden on his Sixtieth Birthday, containing the poem For W.H.A by Tolkien).
- The Hobbit, Facsimile Gift Edition, first printing, HC, 2018.
And below my growing collection of Hobbits second and third editions. I have completed the range of all printings from the 50's (1951-1959), including a mix of GA&U and HMCO printings.
From left to right : '51 (GA&U), '54 (GA&U), '55 (GA&U), '56 (HMCO), '57 (HMCO), '58 (GA&U), 59 (HMCO), '63 (HMCO), '67 (GA&U), '72 (GA&U), '65 (18th printing, HMCO)
And an update on my Hobbitses collection as a whole :)
Upper row (from left to right)
- The Collected poems of J.R.R Tolkien (HC, 2024)
- The Lord of the rings Millenium Edition, unfaded spines, with CD (HC, 1999)
- The Hobbit, first japanese edition, second printing 1973. (First (1965) and second (1973) printings - the only ones published during Tolkien's lifetime are quite tricky to find)
- Tolkien on Chaucer (OUP, 2024)
- J.R.R Tolkien, scholar and storyteller, Essays in Memoriam (Cornell University Press, 1979), whith an unfaded spine. This appears to be a second printing, as printed on the copyright page. According to tolkienbooks.net (https://tolkienbooks.net/php/details2.php?id=800), we thought that only one printing was published, but it actually appears that there was at least one reprint.)
- Tolkien Studies Volume IV (West Virginia University Press, 2007), including texts by Tolkien (reprint of The Name ‘Nodens’; The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth: Philology and the Literary Muse by Thomas Honegger including extracts from unpublished drafts of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth; Ae Adar Nín, featuring handwritten notes by Tolkien on the back of a postcard give a partial translation of The Lords Prayer into Sindarin.)
- C.S. Lewis's Oxford (Bodleian Library, 2024)
Mid row :
- A dictionnary of chivalry, first edition (Prentice Hall Press, 1968) including many beautiful colour and B&W drawings by Pauline Baynes
- J.R.R Tolkien, A biography by Humphrey Carpenter (GA&U, 1977). Review copy, signed by H. Carpenter and addressed to Keith Brace, litterary editor at the Birmingham Post. Brace is known for interviewing Tolkien at his home in 1968 ("In the Footsteps of the Hobbits" , published in the Birmingham Post, 25 May 1968)
- The Hobbit (GA&U, 6th impression 1954)
- The Hobbit (GA&U, 10th impression 1958)
- The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1st edition, GA&U 1962), review copy with publisher slip, also addressed to Keith Brace. Love the 'S' missing to 'Adventure' on the publisher slip.
- Le Seigneur des Anneaux, 1978-79, Christian Bourgois Editeur. Very scarce french edition. This edition is a refurbishing of later prints of the first french edition from 1972, and rejacketed with Bakshi's movie visuals. These are very hard to find, especially volume 2. Volume 1 and 2 also exist with cardboards cover featuring Bakshi artwork (which are *a bit* more common).
Lower row :
- Viga-Glums Saga by G. Turville-Petre (First edition, OUP/Oxford English Monographs 1940). Tolkien was a General Editor for the series and is credited in the Preface.
- Origins of icelandic litterature by G. Turville-Petre (First edition, OUP 1953). Tolkien is credited and thanked in the preface.
- Shenandoah:Vol.18, No.2, Winter 1967, Washington and Lee University (A Tribute to Wystan Hugh Auden on his Sixtieth Birthday, containing the poem For W.H.A by Tolkien).
- The Hobbit, Facsimile Gift Edition, first printing, HC, 2018.
And below my growing collection of Hobbits second and third editions. I have completed the range of all printings from the 50's (1951-1959), including a mix of GA&U and HMCO printings.
From left to right : '51 (GA&U), '54 (GA&U), '55 (GA&U), '56 (HMCO), '57 (HMCO), '58 (GA&U), 59 (HMCO), '63 (HMCO), '67 (GA&U), '72 (GA&U), '65 (18th printing, HMCO)
And an update on my Hobbitses collection as a whole :)
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