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17 Feb, 2014
2014-2-17 8:25:45 PM UTC
If HarperCollins were a small press (&/or had any sense) they would have marked this, as is common in the book trade, "PC" (i.e. printer's/publisher's copy). In the absence of any such non-numbering marking the owner is now free to mark this copy, if they are inclined to such shenanigans, with any number they desire e.g. #1, which would presumably command a higher price. Slightly odd HC didn't do this in this instance.

BH
17 Feb, 2014
2014-2-17 8:42:12 PM UTC
I have several of such books... they are author copies.
They are either unnumbered or get the initials of those who they are for. Like I have some copies with PC in them.
17 Feb, 2014
2014-2-17 9:21:55 PM UTC
Indeed; but it's poor practise not to mark them for the reasons I cited. It may well have been unnumbered unintentionally, I suppose.

BH
27 Feb, 2014
2014-2-27 3:19:21 PM UTC
I bought a copy of this Canadian magazine on eBay that contains the Plimmers' interview with Tolkien that was first published in The Daily Telegraph: http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/details.php?reference=55110

I hadn't known about this reprint. Does anyone else have a copy of this:
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27 Feb, 2014
2014-2-27 8:59:23 PM UTC
I have this magazine, but the title in the top left box is 'The Daily-Times Journal' of Fort William.
28 Feb, 2014 (edited)
2014-2-28 1:45:43 PM UTC
Thanks to this thread, I have just reread the interview in The Telegraph Magazine in 1968 by the Plimmers, and here are some quotes from the article.

Talking about The Lord of the Rings

"The book is not about anything but itself. It has no allegorical intentions, topical, moral, religious or political. It is not about modern wars or H-bombs, and my villain is not Hitler"

Fairy tale story writers

"As a child I couldn't stand Hans Anderson, and I can't now."

On his masterpiece

"Believable fairy stories must be intensely practical. You must have a map, no matter how rough. Otherwise you wander all over the place. In 'The Lord of the Rings' I never made anyone go farther than he could on a given day."

On films

"Please," wrote a 17-year-old girl, "don't let them make a movie out of your 'Ring'. It would be like putting Disneyland into the Grand Canyon."

He feels strongly that the 'Ring' should not be filmed. "You can't cramp narrative into dramatic form. It would be easier to film 'The Odyssey'. Much less happens in it. Only a few storms."

The interviewers got an awesome book signing at the end of the interview, Tolkien wrote "A star shines on the hour of our meeting" in Elvish :)

If Mr Jackson was filming The Odyssey, I am sure he could come up with more than a few storms happening in it :(

Have we seen the signed book on the market?
28 Feb, 2014
2014-2-28 2:36:50 PM UTC
Hi everyone :)

I see on ebay a first edition LOTR binding I've never seen before..

Book is discarded ex-library, with map in awful condition but I am curious about the red binding with grey dots? Does anyone know anything about it?

eBay item bn_1841731

Thanks for info,

Lokki
28 Feb, 2014
2014-2-28 3:14:05 PM UTC
This is a UK library binding.

A lot of UK public libraries rebound books in the 1950's, and this copy is one of those.
28 Feb, 2014
2014-2-28 3:19:16 PM UTC
Oh, so that means it was originally classical red binding and after that it was rebound?

Thank you for the clarification Trotter!
6 Mar, 2014
2014-3-6 9:05:10 PM UTC
Quite common but for a decent price

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