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New signatures and academic essays in my collection

3 May, 2016 (edited)
2016-5-3 4:23:50 PM UTC

Dear friends,
These are my new and great treasures in my collection! With great emotion, I want to share with you my joy:

1. Postcard by J.R.R. Tolkien (handwritten and signed) , May 6, 1939

2. Postcard from Edith (handwritten and signed "Edith Bratt Tolkien"), May 16, 1939

3. Smith of Wotton Major pre publication

4. The Dark Ages by W.P. Ker annotated by Tolkien with "From the library of J. R. R. Tolkein"

5. Chaucer Troilus and Cryseyde annotated and signed by Tolkien

6. The Year's Work in English Studies vol. IV 1923 (contains: Philology: General Works I)

7. The Year's Work in English Studies vol. V 1924 (contains: Philology: General Works II)

8. The Year's Work in English Studies vol. VI 1925 (contains: Philology: General Works III; reviews Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography 104-106; and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 96-97) -

9 The Review of English Studies vol. 1 1925 (1-4) contain
a) Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography (The Review of English Studies Vol. 1, No. 2.April 1925)
b) The Devil's Coach-Horses (The Review of English Studies Vol. 1, No. 3.July 1925)
This latest book is marked "Sidgwick & Jackson."not "Dawson & Sons" as the reprint of 1969 [see the last picture]

What do you think?

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3 May, 2016
2016-5-3 11:11:54 PM UTC
Very nice! I don't have all of those (obviously not the unique signed items). Nice finds!
5 May, 2016
2016-5-5 11:35:08 PM UTC
Very cool! Jealous for sure...
6 May, 2016
2016-5-6 12:13:24 AM UTC

Jlong wrote:
Very cool! Jealous for sure...

What he said.
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