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21 Dec, 2014
2014-12-21 11:26:21 PM UTC
Do you not think they look at little short to be the leather editions?

BH
21 Dec, 2014 (edited)
2014-12-21 11:56:35 PM UTC

Khamûl wrote:
Do you not think they look at little short to be the leather editions?

BH

I don't think so. If you rotate "The Hobbit" deluxe and stick it next to the HoME as a scale comparison, it appears there is enough room for the Deluxe HoME to fit in the box. I think the box is much deeper than it looks, which accounts for the optical illusion of the books within the box looking much smaller (relative to those stacked on top).

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22 Dec, 2014
2014-12-22 8:04:09 AM UTC
The picture refers to a competition that HC are running at the moment.

http://www.tolkienchristmas.com/

If you look at that page you will see the same books but with the current slipcased HOME 3 volume.

I think they were doing a publicity photo and the current HOME 3 volumes would not fit in the box, so they used the leather 3 volume HOME instead.
8 Jan, 2015
2015-1-8 12:14:55 AM UTC
Easton Press Beowulf

Design-wise, I think EP have done a better job of this than with some of their other Tolkien offerings. Thankfully they left the back board blank, rather than covering it with an excess of gilt pattern-work. If they had only left the border off the front (and spine),it would be better, but overall, I think it is a decent enough looking book.

Unfortunately, unlike HarperCollins, they do not include the original cover art as a frontispiece.

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26 Feb, 2015 (edited)
2015-2-26 11:32:55 AM UTC

Trotter wrote:
Believe that this is probably the last of the pocket books, though I suppose Leaf by Niggle, Mr Bliss, Father Christmas Letters are also candidates as well for this book format.

Smith of Wootton Major

Published on 26th February 2015.

I received the book today and it looks to be very similar to the 2005 hardback.

http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/details.php?reference=54350

but with one extra section, which is an additional gallery showing Pauline Baynes redrawn illustrations that appeared in Poems & Stories

http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/details.php?reference=63790

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9 Mar, 2015
2015-3-9 4:01:04 PM UTC
My copy states the copyright as 2005, with "1" beneath denoting first printing; pretty much as the 2005 edition would say! Don't see any mention of "2015" on the copyright pg. at all.

BH
10 Mar, 2015
2015-3-10 7:19:29 AM UTC
Yep, mine is the same. Another copyright page goof!
10 Mar, 2015
2015-3-10 7:37:28 PM UTC
Yes, it was an oversight, the next printing will have the correct details according to HC.
1 Apr, 2015
2015-4-1 3:47:12 AM UTC
27 Apr, 2015
2015-4-27 8:57:14 PM UTC
This one will be interesting:

J.R.R.Tolkien: Codemaker, Spy-master, Hero: au unauthorised biography

by Elan Sea (Author), Mr Alexander Lewis (Consultant Editor), Ms Elizabeth Currie (Consultant Editor)
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