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20 Mar, 2014
2014-3-20 11:39:44 PM UTC
This is great news. I am very excited with this new edition.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beowulf-Trans ... collsguid-21&linkCode=osi
20 Mar, 2014
2014-3-20 11:59:27 PM UTC
All of the HarperCollins "Hardback Deluxe" editions are RRP £60, so the Amazon list price (for what it's worth) of £75 is slightly odd.

BH
21 Mar, 2014
2014-3-21 12:15:22 AM UTC

Khamûl wrote:
All of the HarperCollins "Hardback Deluxe" editions are RRP £60, so the Amazon list price (for what it's worth) of £75 is slightly odd.

BH

Yeah, I saw that. I just assumed it was HC trying to fleece as much cash for the final edition. The GBP 60 editions of late have been available for about 35 (or that's what I paid for the last two, anyway), so one would assume a real price of 45 - 50 for this one. I won't be pre-ordering as (a) they never sell out quickly and (b) the price always drops AFTER the preorder guarantee expires. i.e. they drop the price below any of the preorder prices the day after it is released. I got UT and FoA from speedyhen.co.uk and was happy with price and shipping. Packing was on a par with book depository (i.e. rubbish).
21 Mar, 2014
2014-3-21 11:21:56 AM UTC
John Garth has some more information and a picture of the front cover in his blog.

http://johngarth.wordpress.com/2014/0 ... ic-spell-to-be-published/
21 Mar, 2014
2014-3-21 2:13:24 PM UTC
The standard version will have a lower price.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beowulf-Trans ... collsguid-21&linkCode=osi

I think the de luxe edition could be signed, due that price.
21 Mar, 2014
2014-3-21 8:19:22 PM UTC
John Garth's blog doesn't add anything that Pieter hasn't got up at TolkienLibrary: http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/1 ... commentary-by-tolkien.php (--for those who haven't read his news piece.)

£20 is also more than I'd expext for the standard Hb, tolkienbrasil. And, for £75, who are you imagining this will be signed by? The cover artist? Certainly not CT...

BH
21 Mar, 2014
2014-3-21 9:02:28 PM UTC

tolkienbrasil wrote:
The standard version will have a lower price.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beowulf-Trans ... collsguid-21&linkCode=osi

I think the de luxe edition could be signed, due that price.


It seems most unlikely that it would be signed, IMHO.
3 May, 2014
2014-5-3 9:48:41 AM UTC
It is a very beatiful edition. Just waiting now...

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26 Jan, 2017
2017-1-26 6:33:59 PM UTC
In tolkienbrasil's original post, are HoME (I, II, III), History of The Hobbit, Chronology and Guide, LOTR Reader's Companion just the traditional HC hardbacks...

http://www.tolkien.co.uk/product/9780 ... +History+of+Middle-earth+

http://www.tolkien.co.uk/product/9780 ... he+History+of+the+Hobbit+

http://www.tolkien.co.uk/product/9780 ... kien+Companion+and+Guide+

http://www.tolkien.co.uk/product/9780 ... ader%E2%80%99s+Companion+

...with the dust jackets removed? I didn't expect to see them in the "deluxe" line up as in the photo in the first post of the thread.

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26 Jan, 2017 (edited)
2017-1-26 7:39:46 PM UTC
No, it's the Deluxe Editions sans slipcases.

BH

EDIT: Sorry St. Troy, that's not what you asked.
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