26 Sep, 2010
2010-9-26 12:52:40 PM UTC
26 Sep, 2010
2010-9-26 1:02:25 PM UTC
I have two copies, both identical, and in the box with the white label on the front. There was only one impression of this wasn't there?
26 Sep, 2010
2010-9-26 2:36:15 PM UTC
Mine have the box. I enquired of this book as well. Has someone simply changed the box/cover? Maybe?
26 Sep, 2010
2010-9-26 3:36:55 PM UTC
Mine has the box as well.
The similar LOTR deluxe was only issued in a slipcase up to 1974. As Deagol says on his website (for LOTR) "in 1974 the slipcase was replaced by a box with a printed label on the lid. Presumably the decision had been made to replace the slipcase with a box, but existing stocks of slipcases were used up before the change was made."
It would seeem odd therefore for a 1980 Poems and Stories to be in a slipcase though the seller makes a clear statement that the book "was provided by the company without the label usually attached to the front of the sleeve."
26 Sep, 2010
2010-9-26 4:45:49 PM UTC
Every copy that I have ever seen has a box, additionally they should also be wrapped in tissue paper.
26 Sep, 2010
2010-9-26 4:53:51 PM UTC
Yes, I think the seller is confusing the lid of the box (which has a label) with the slipcase. I agree with the consensus so far; AFAIK the book came only in a box, with, as Trotter notes, a tissue guard (sadly mine doesn't have this, but as it cost me only a tenner in a remainder shop many years ago, I'm not complaining).
I wonder whether this slipcase might be one that a previous owner had made privately?
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