12 Jul, 2010
2010-7-12 10:38:25 PM UTC
Hi I am selling my collection of Tolkien books on ebay. Items include The Tolkien Library boxed set of hardback Silmarillion, Hobbit & LOTR, LOTR deluxe edition, boxed set of Carpenter Biography & Foster Middle Earth Guide paperbacks and more, all in very good condition. Listings commence Tuesday 13th July 21.00 for ten days, low start price, sensible reserves or none at all in some cases. Happy bidding!
13 Jul, 2010
2010-7-13 9:51:46 PM UTC
Here are most of his auctions if you are interested - very nice looking Tolkien Library!!!
13 Jul, 2010
2010-7-13 9:53:19 PM UTC
PS - Jimbo, one of your auctions (
270606798788) does not mention "Tolkien" anywhere in it, and thus does not show up in my widget above. Probably also means that you are not getting as many search results on eBay as you would like, so you might want to add it to the description or title somehwere.
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14 Jul, 2010
2010-7-14 7:53:46 PM UTC
Can anyone comment on The Silmarillion in The Tolkien Library boxset? Haven't bothered to look anything up here or anything, but two previous copies I've noted had 4th impressions of The Silmarillion. Also, with a school presentation certificate? --& only in The Silmarillion? Would I be presumptious to think this might not be the original copy?
BH
14 Jul, 2010
2010-7-14 8:42:23 PM UTC
I am guessing here, but the seller mentions at the very top:
I was given these books as a school prize but I already had the paperbacks, so they have stayed in their box for over thirty years.
Based on that statement, I think that explains the presentation certificate (they picked one of the books to put it in, rather than on the box or making one for each book). The printing I can't answer to without being in front of my handy Hammond for a bit more research.
14 Jul, 2010
2010-7-14 8:44:25 PM UTC
14 Jul, 2010
2010-7-14 9:42:15 PM UTC
Hmmm... pretty expensive school prize. Cost £24 in late 70's (according to Hammond)... still, I should have read the description!
BH
15 Jul, 2010
2010-7-15 4:15:49 AM UTC
The copy of the Silmarillion in my Tolkien Library is the 4th impression. I think the key point is that the books in this boxset are all published in 1978 so you would not expect to find a 2nd impression (1977 printing) in this book. I think Khamul may be right and it is not the original copy.
15 Jul, 2010
2010-7-15 11:18:54 AM UTC
The Silmarillion in our Tolkien Library set is a 2nd impression, and the set came to Christina directly from the Tolkien books Allen & Unwin/Unwin Hyman had kept for consultation in their library, but which they eventually gave to the Bodleian or discarded. There were in fact many copies of the Allen & Unwin 2nd impression Silmarillion still in the warehouse as late as 1992, when HarperCollins issued them in a Centenary dust-jacket.
Wayne & Christina
15 Jul, 2010
2010-7-15 4:25:35 PM UTC
Thanks Wayne!
Out of (very idle) curiosity, why were they making more printings of
The Silmarillion through 1992 if they still had a bunch of second impressions in the warehouse?
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