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3 Feb, 2017
2017-2-3 10:49:21 PM UTC
All I can add to the conversation is that the Wikipedia article & author have been referenced (with praise) by the article author Steven M. Frisby in Scull/Hammond's "The Tolkien Collector" issue #30, but I have not seen one of these orange bindings myself. I will keep digging to see if I can find out more.
4 Feb, 2017
2017-2-4 11:32:32 AM UTC

dunedain wrote:
Hi Trotter,

IMO its awfully hard to be better than the UK 1st or 2nd impressions. But, I do like the larger size of the US. Made for more comfortable reading, to me.

I had forgotten about that, and you are right, I also like the larger font size of the US edition
17 Feb, 2017
2017-2-17 7:08:21 PM UTC
I conversed with the author of the Wikipedia article, and here is his clarification for the library binding states seen:

There are, in fact, library bindings that have a silk-screen of Hobbiton as it appears on the American first edition dust jacket and as the frontispiece. That is what “mimics the first edition dust jacket” refers to.

As for a hobbit on the front boards, I have seen library bindings with: The bowing hobbit at the upper right, as in the publisher’s front board; bowing hobbit in the center; and a sort of Dutch elf (at least, wooden shoes and Dutch boy’s garb) in the center, as in the eBay lot you referenced.
18 Feb, 2017
2017-2-18 1:23:40 AM UTC
Cool. Thanks, Urulöké.
23 Sep, 2020
2020-9-23 2:22:41 PM UTC
I was doing some research into a book I just purchased and I came across this thread. I believe it's a copy of the library binding that you were looking for, however it's in blue cloth. I'll attach a few photos in case anyone was still interested. The book appears to be a US first edition, third state, with the corrected Chapter VII and none of the printing errors seen in the fourth state. There are no maps in this copy but the four color illustrations are all present.

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23 Sep, 2020
2020-9-23 3:17:15 PM UTC
Thanks StephO! I believe that is exactly what Trotter was looking for. I haven't seen one of those boards before.
23 Sep, 2020
2020-9-23 3:27:40 PM UTC
Here's several more, all U.S. first edition library bindings, for the records...

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23 Sep, 2020
2020-9-23 4:09:34 PM UTC
Thanks all, that was what I was looking for
23 Sep, 2020
2020-9-23 11:05:23 PM UTC
Wow, these are extraordinary! Thanks for sharing all...
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