"This is now at nearly £80 with 50 bids, and still 1 day to go, I hope that shill bidding is not taking place"

It looks likely that a newbie ebayer has been stitched up food and proper - 66% of the losing bidder's bids are with that seller - covering a lot of different item categories too.

The three impressions listed were out of print long before the first boxed sets were put together, so I would take any _dogfark_ auction descriptions with a pinch of salt.

He doesn't include a photo of the box because he mixes and matches them between sets depending on what the customer is looking for.... I kid you not.

The handwriting looks like that of Edith Tolkien

You can read it on Amazon.

There is 1 paragraph on page 60 that claims The Swan pub in Leek was "one of the locations for J.R.R. Tolkien's writings". Sound familiar?!!