The Good Old Days

I like coming across these old advertising brochures! Nice find, and thanks for the picture. I have a few similar items (packed up at the moment) but maybe I have some pictures to share as well if I can find them.

Thanks for posting. The old ads and catalogues are great. I reckon that was the best era for Tolkien books. The quality was high, the cover designs were traditional and un-fussy, and the range was relatively static, rather than being designed to squeeze a dime out of every last bit of material, good or not. Some of the stuff that passes for "Collectors Editions" out of HarperCollins wouldn't even have passed muster as a paperback thirty years ago.

Plus it was in the days where books sold for RRP, so there was less corner cutting in the production.

I wonder how the Tolkien book landscape will look in another thirty years -- whether there will even be physical copies being produced?

Only hundred pounds for what I'm so desperately looking for ..........
Great ad by the way.