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29 Jan, 2012
2012-1-29 8:16:15 PM UTC
The original claim was that it was (as far as the vendor knew) the first time that 'Beorhtnoth' appeared in print. Whether the word appeared on the cover of a book before or since is not in itself very significant. For one thing, the title is abbreviated - from 'The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son'.

As I've said in a previous post, one of my favourites is this -

http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/details.php?reference=33420

- at only 300 copies, this one is actually rare.
29 Jan, 2012
2012-1-29 8:30:12 PM UTC
Trotter wrote:

"I think this is probably correct, Essays and Studies(1953) does not mention the articles on the cover."

Hang on, I'll just get my copy... here we are; the contents are listed on the rear cover of the dustjacket, with 'The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son by JRR Tolkien' in first place.
29 Jan, 2012
2012-1-29 8:33:58 PM UTC
Did not look at the back of my copy
29 Jan, 2012
2012-1-29 8:38:28 PM UTC
got some of those somewhere... (the limited edition that is... you guys post too much too fast)
29 Jan, 2012
2012-1-29 8:44:38 PM UTC
And this is why I asked the question - such an interesting discussion, and a reminder of a cool limited edition!

[Pay no mind to the sordid history leading up to this.....]
29 Jan, 2012
2012-1-29 8:51:27 PM UTC
Beren --got "some" of those! Do you need more than one of these? I don't have on...

BH
29 Jan, 2012
2012-1-29 9:06:30 PM UTC
Sorry Khamul... just last week was cleaning out some book shelves and re-organizing things when I noticed that I had several copies. If I remember well I got them with other purchases I did - probably from Thorntons who gave them away as mathom (now a long long time ago). I think that is how I ended up having more then one copy.
29 Jan, 2012
2012-1-29 9:15:09 PM UTC
And when are going to send it to me?
30 Jan, 2012
2012-1-30 6:48:04 PM UTC
While we're on the subject - the first time Tolkien's paper 'Ancrenne Wisse and Hali Maethad' appeared in print was in 'Essays and Studies' Vol. XIV, 1929. Tolkien's name, and the name of the paper, appear on the front of the dustwrapper, as part of the contents.

Same goes for his papers 'Some Contributions to Middle English Lexicography', and 'The Devil's Coach-horses', which appear in The Review of English Studies, Vol.I, 1924.

Without getting up, I'm pre-tty sure the same is true for his paper 'English and Welsh', in 'Angles and Britons'.

Of course, these facts - if indeed they are all facts - don't mean a lot when it comes to valuations. It's all just sales guff.
30 Jan, 2012
2012-1-30 7:07:15 PM UTC
*just checked - it's Tolkien's name only on Angles and Britons; not the name of his paper.
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