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Pauline Baynes signature

26 Sep, 2010
2010-9-26 11:38:59 AM UTC

Hi. Everyone! I am new to this forum, but not to Tolkien forums in general. To introduce myself a little, I have been buying and reading Tolkien books for many years. My first Tolkien book that I owned was the 1961 Puffin Hobbit that my mother bought for me the year it came out. It has long since fallen apart!

I now have a fairly large, and mostly un-catalogued Tolkien collection, mainly in boxes. I also have 2-3 boxes of works by C.S. Lewis and the other Inklings. Since I have recently made available a room that can be (partly) converted into a library area I now intend to catalogue my books and share anything of interest, but hopefully also to ask questions of the experienced posters on this site.

I look forward to talking to you all!

Firstly, I wonder if anyone could give a view on a Pauline Baynes signature that I acquired recently. (My only signature of her).

The book is Bilbo’s Last Song and it is the smaller blue edition that was published in 2002. It is signed under her printed name on the title. I was told by the vendor that he used to work at Random House Children’s Books and it was given to him as a gift by another employee that worked in the publicity department there and who had been at a book signing.

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26 Sep, 2010
2010-9-26 2:34:47 PM UTC
hi
Welcome
This looks good to me from others i have seen. I was going to go for this book as well but got times confused with another and missed it. A good purchase.

or maybe i should say its a fake and i will buy it from you at price you paid :)
26 Sep, 2010
2010-9-26 5:01:30 PM UTC
Looks okay to me, too.
27 Sep, 2010
2010-9-27 2:22:46 AM UTC
It's certainly Pauline's signature. We have many examples.

Wayne & Christina
27 Sep, 2010
2010-9-27 7:20:09 AM UTC
Just one thing, though: Roccondil writes -

"I was told by the vendor that he used to work at Random House Children’s Books and it was given to him as a gift by another employee that worked in the publicity department there and who had been at a book signing."

This brings up an interesting question: I'd always had the notion that Pauline Baynes didn't do book-signings; or am I wrong. ?
27 Sep, 2010
2010-9-27 8:14:53 AM UTC
The exact words used to me were
I used to work for RHCB and received this signed copy from a friend who worked in publicity and oversaw the book signing of this title.
27 Sep, 2010
2010-9-27 12:09:08 PM UTC
I also enquired about the book and the seller's reply to me was:

"The signature is genuine, as the books were signed in the editorial offices of Random House."
27 Sep, 2010
2010-9-27 1:30:16 PM UTC
Ah, then clearly Pauline did cross the Atlantic in her later years. I never knew that.
30 Sep, 2010
2010-9-30 1:49:07 PM UTC
I'd just like to thank everyone who replied with such useful comments on my first thread on this forum

I don't have much knowledge of signatures as I have never really collected them. The only other ones I have are some books signed by Michael Tolkien in his instantly recognisable fashion. These are in one of the boxes.... somewhere...
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