Roccondil I do not have favorite books! Everyone has a special story. However, I attach photos of the books for me important. My collection includes over 1500 books, and it is hard to choose ...

Jacob Grimm An address delivered at the annual meeting of the Philological society on Friday, May 7, 1915
di William Paton Ker, 1915
Goblin Feet in Oxford Poetry 1914-1916 / 1° ed. 1917
Goblin Feet in Fifty New Poems for Children / 1° ed. 1922
Goblin Feet in Fifty New Poems for Children / 2° impr. 1924
Goblin Feet in Oxford Poetry 1915 / - 1° ed. 1915, 3° impr. 1916
Goblin Feet in The Open Door to poetry: An Anthology, 1° ed. 1931
Goblin Feet in The Open Door to poetry: An Anthology, 1° ed. 1931 (book: different version)
The Devil's Coach Horses, 1980(?)
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, 1° ed., 2° impr 1958 / signed by prof. John Leyerle
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, 1° ed. 5° impr. 1971
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 1° ed. 1925
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 2° impr. 1930
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 3° impr. 1936
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 4° impr. 1946
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 5° impr. 1949
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 9° impr. 1963
Ancrene Wisse 1° ed. 1962
Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose. [WithGlossary], 7° impr. 1944
Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose[With Glossary], 13° impr. 1962
Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose [With Glossary], 16° impr. 1970
Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment, 1950
Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment, 5° ed. 1963
O'Donnell Lectures: Angles and Britons 1° ed. 1963
Sir Orfeo, 1° ed. 1954
Elizabethan Acting, 1° 1951
The Peterborough Chronicle 1070-1154, 1° ed. 1958
Pearl, 1° ed. 1953
Pearl, 4° impr. 1966
Middle English “Losenger”, 1° ed. 1953
Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment, 1° ed. 1914
Þe Liflade ant te Passiun of Seinte Iuliene, 1° ed. 1961
Tolkien. The Man WhoCreated Nine Languages in Quinto Lingo, n. 7, 1969
Proceedings of theseventh International Congress of Linguistis, 1° ed. 1956
Wales: a study in geography and history 1° ed. 1941 signed by Vera Chapman
The Ancrene Riwle, 1° ed. 1955
Centenary Essays on Dante, 1° ed. 1965
An Introduction to Old Norse, 1962
The Oxford book of Greek verse in translation, 1° ed. 1938
Chaucer The Pardoner’s Tale, 1966
The Making of The Lord of the Rings, Rayner Unwin, special edition in 12 copies, 1992

Again:

The Lord of the Rings [Trilogy], 1954-1955 2°, 2°, 2°
The Lord of the Rings [Trilogy], 1960
The Lord of the Rings [Trilogy], 1966 1°, 1°, 1°
The Lord of the Rings [Trilogy], 1974

The rarest italian editions:
Il Signore degli Anelli, 1° ed. 1970
La Compagnia dell'Anello, 1° ed. 1967
Il Signore degli Anelli, 1° ed. 1970 (only 300 esemplar ad personam)
Il Signore degli Anelli, 1984
Il Signore degli Anelli, 1997
Il Signore degli Anelli, 1° ed. 1977

Last but not least

The Hobbit, 1° ed., 2° impr. 1938
(Dj not original)

again... the firts edition in Polish, Hungarian, Hebrew, French, Dutch, Armenian, Farsi, Bulgarian, Canadian, Swiss, Spanish.. and much more

Lovely and six copies of Sir Gawain (the mad theory indeed!)

Fantastic collections!!! Hope to have something similar one day

Focusing on the Silmarillion ...

- wellinghall

... and on the Book of Lost Tales part II.

- wellinghall

That's quite a few copies of The Silmarillion wellinghall! Why so many? They all look the same to me...

BH

If you don't tell anyone, Khamûl, I'll let you into a little secret. I've really only got one copy, but I've been practising my Photoshop skills.

- wellinghall

Sadly for you that's not quite true. I fear you probably have a few shelves of identical looking spines there...

EDIT: Btw, was that a 1982 Silmarillion I saw on one of the earlier photos you posted? I thought you never had one?

BH

In my humble opinion, collecting multiple Silmarillions is a very wise thing to do.

After the Hobbit films I guess there is a high probability that Silmarillion will be filmed. So the price of the original books will just go up!

"High probability"? If you mean, by this, ever; then, yes, I suppose. But it's not likely to be filmed while it's in copyright I don't think. Incidentally, I only have one or two actual duplicates. And, I don't have a photograph of all of them to post here.

BH