The UK spelling of cheque is used in the letter on the left, so I agree that it is very surprising that the US spelling check is in use in the right letter. I am sure that Joy Hill would not type cheque as check.

There is also nothing really tying these letters to this copy of the book, the letters refer to a signed US copy but they are reproductions and how do we know it is this copy that is referred to?

I was also curious about the publishing date on the book. I would have thought that would have been after 1973, probably 1975 or there abouts. Anyone else have a better date? The signature looks good, but something doesn't seem right. I also agree on the check vs cheque, a little unusual at best.

Yes, I went; and sadly, there were no posters like that for sale. Shame, really. All we got was a 4-page handout; listing what was on display, with brief write-up on Tolkien on the front page and an equally brief chronology of his life and works on the back page. Nothing fancy.

I don't think these were posters but would love to be proved wrong

Did anyone go to world reading day on March 4th?

Were they selling posters (see below)?

http://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/wordpress/archives/109

Hi there!

I am selling a series of Tolkien Pewter Figurines from the Tudor Mint - Pre-film and no longer available new.

Please look at my ebay site... http://shop.ebay.co.uk/michelleriot/m ... &_odkw=&_osacat=0&bkBtn=1

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Michelle

In response to JLong -

just to clarify on the US paperbacks:

there are five Ballantine/Del Rey paperbacks (mass market, 4" x 7" pocket size). BoLT1, BoLT2, Lays, Shaping and Lost Tales. These have been sold individually and in a boxed set as "The Histories of Middle-earth".



Houghton Mifflin has put out trade paperback (larger format) "History of The Lord of the Rings" books - 4 in all. These were also available individually or in a boxed set.

The Return of the Shadow
The Treason of Isengard
The War of the Ring
edit The End of the Third Age (from Sauron Defeated - only the portion of the hardcover that deals with the end of LOTR).

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/c ... il.cfm?titleNumber=682675

I am selling my vintage record albums from the 1970's. These are NEW - still sealed - and never played -
I have the J.R.R. Tolkien Reads & Sings The Hobbit; Lord of the Rings ; Two Towers / Fellowship of the Ring ; Silmarillion ; Poems & Songs of Middle Earth : 4-LP-boxed Set plus 4 more - all posted on a website at :
ReadYourOwnLips.com/J_R_R_Tolkien.html
Without going on eBay, does anyone know how I would find a collector that would like to have these?
Thanks for any help

vintage.vinyl.LPs@gmail.com

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I compared 3 of the volumes randomly between HC & HM--BLT 1, Shaping of Me, and War of the Jewels were all the same.

On a side note, I hate that the Del Rey paperbacks have completely different pagination--it is so annoying.

HM have also released books 1, 2, and 3 in paperback (I believe that is it); I sure wish they had done all of them. If anyone knows of any other HM paperbacks of HoMe books, please let me know.

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We have already established that the UK paperback and UK hardback's have exactly the same pagination, so a hardback index will work with the UK hardbacks. HC need to be careful when editing the books to make sure that the pagination remains the same, which is my main worry about this.

If anyone has the HC and HM hardbacks, are the page numbers the same, so does this index work for HM hardbacks?