Great additions! The Kilby book is in excellent condition on top of the signature. Very cool find.

The cover on the Egyptian Silm looks to be AI-generated art, to me, fwiw. ^_^

DMRoberts wrote:

The cover on the Egyptian Silm looks to be AI-generated art, to me, fwiw. ^_^

And this is the cover of the matching Hobbit.

Some months are busier than others. Here are some of the arrivals this summer:

picture 1:
- Between the covers rare books - catalog. Issue with items from the George Bixby collection including W.H. Audens proof copy of Tree and Leaf. I have bought some items from that collection and this catalog was a welcome mathom.
- Mongolian first edition 'fellowship of the ring'. This is one of 100 special copies made for the launch event in Ulaanbaatar. Remy I am eternally grateful.
- Encounter Magazine november 1954 with W.H. Audens FotR review
- #2 out of 12 specially bound 2nd edition volumes of Rayner Unwins the making of the lord of the rings.
- Rundtomrask - the norwegian Roverandom first edition. Fiendishly hard to find.
- the mongolian translation of Ainulindale. 1 of 200 copies.

Picture 2:
- University of Leeds calendar 1921-22, thank you Matt!
- Beowulf the monsters and the critics 5th printing
- A speculation of the silmarillion by Jim Allan
- Happy Birthday J.R.R. Tolkien
- Hobbitin from iceland
- Radiotimes postcard

Picture 3:
-3 wonderful recent exhibition cataloges/books

Picture 4:
- 2002 korean edition first printings

pictures 5 and 6
-Club degli Editori edition ...first printings 1993

Picture 7:
- 2 recent hobbits

Pictures 8 - 10
- sample of the first chapter of the first german edition of the lord of the rings. Giving publication date indications for the 3 volumes and a possible price for the upcoming first volume.
-the 'converted' 1977/ 1992 silmarillion.
-uncorrected Houghton Mifflin proof for the silmarillion.

Pictures 11-12
-the 'encore variant' box set
-50th anniversary box set
-Readers union set

Picture 13:
- 3 box sets I was happy to see arrive up here :)

Astounding additions northman! Congratulations on your finds.

Those Club degli Editori editions are really cool! I like how the spines form their own image without being separate from the front covers.

Out of curiosity, what do the boards on the Mongolian FotR look like? Are they the black textured paper that seems to be common today, or are they cloth bound?

Congrats on these great finds!

Absolutely superb. So many fantastic editions in those pics! Big congratulations.

Wonderful acquisitions northman, these are amazing. Big haul !

The Silmarillion proof looks tasty. Great collection update.

Very nice!