I ordered from Amazon DE, the order has now changed to delivery on the 28th but is now not shipped.

They will arrive when they arrive, I guess. I'd rather they take the time to get it right, and I'm kind of hoping they have found another source for the jacket (done on a modern A3+ scanner with no lossy compression or joins between multiple scans). That would be the best result, but I'll be OK wth whatever at this stage; It isn't an expensive book.

The Tolkien Society think it will be ready at the weekend, they have tweeted about it.

https://twitter.com/TolkienSociety/status/779030622190833664

I have had no confirmation of this from HarperCollins.

Trotter wrote:
The Tolkien Society think it will be ready at the weekend, they have tweeted about it.

https://twitter.com/TolkienSociety/status/779030622190833664

I have had no confirmation of this from HarperCollins.

We know it is arriving at some point soon. They aren't going to chuck away all the books because of the jacket. I do wonder if it wll get multiple prints and the first print will be passable and subsequent prints get a better jacket. There are several fine first impression jackets out there in the big wild world that would suit their needs, and as copyright holders they should be able to get the scans that no one else can get permission to access because of the Tolkien Estate's restrictions.

(BTW - I'm pleased that the error that I thought I had made on the cleaned-up scan I supplied to HC is - in fact - not an error; It is on the original and is correct - I shouldn't second guess myself!).

https://tolkieniano.blogspot.co.nz/201 ... ellharpercollins-sul.html

Nothing that we don't already know in here, except for it appears that the print run is 4,000 copies. I'm glad all the defective jackets were destroyed, as there are enough of the bad facsimiles upon which it was based in the world causing confusion (I had thought about asking David for one, and then thought -- 'God, no -- I really don't want one of the damnable things!').

Bookdepository says my copy is on the way!
It will be interesting to see what actually arrives.

If it looks more or less like this, I'll be happy. The green they were looking at is quite a bit brighter than this, though, and my gut feel is the true colour is probably somewhere in between their colour and my colour. Not sure if they changed it or not. #ColoursAreHard

Interesting reference to Alice in Wonderland in the original DJ. Hard to imagine a time when Tolkien was unknown and his publisher used this sort of comparison.

Morinehtar wrote:
Interesting reference to Alice in Wonderland in the original DJ. Hard to imagine a time when Tolkien was unknown and his publisher used this sort of comparison.

79 Years is a long time! Note that "Dodgeson" has the "e" inked out with pen. There was a bit of discussion as to whether they would go without the pen correction, but (assuming nothing changed last minute, of course), the jacket will have the ink correction (it would have been very odd to have not had it, given all the 1937 copies were corrected in this way before leaving the printers).

Does that mean they will print the name with the correct spelling or reproduce the ink mark?