14 Jun, 2017
2017-6-14 4:05:59 AM UTC
I'm wondering if early printings of this edition were bound in cloth. I have the 6 matching, oversized illustrated volumes (3 LotR, Hobbit, Sil, Foster's Guide) all of which are bound in lovely cloth - except for The Silmarillion. Mine is a 6th printing, bound in cheap blue paper at our favorite Printing Express in Hong Kong. If early printings are cloth-bound, I'd like to find one. TolkienBooks.net interestingly notes that the first printing has a fold-out map and misspells "Naysmith" on the dj.
I'm still working to acquire the 1st illustrated edition with the less common dj that was discussed at length in a previous thread. I believe this was bound in black cloth-covered boards. Would you believe that I've ordered it on Ebay twice from different highly-rated sellers, and both times it's been lost in transit! I'm starting to think there's someone in the postal service collecting these at my expense!
14 Jun, 2017
2017-6-14 4:55:39 AM UTC
Karl wrote:
I'm wondering if early printings of this edition were bound in cloth. I have the 6 matching, oversized illustrated volumes (3 LotR, Hobbit, Sil, Foster's Guide) all of which are bound in lovely cloth - except for The Silmarillion. Mine is a 6th printing, bound in cheap blue paper at our favorite Printing Express in Hong Kong. If early printings are cloth-bound, I'd like to find one. TolkienBooks.net interestingly notes that the first printing has a fold-out map and misspells "Naysmith" on the dj.
"Naysmith" is spelt incorrectly on the spine, but is spelt correctly as "Naismith" on the dust-jacket. The edition is printed in Belgium and looks to me like cloth and not paper
http://tolkienbooks.net/php/details.php?reference=62500
1 Dec, 2019
2019-12-1 7:57:04 PM UTC
1 Dec, 2019
2019-12-1 8:12:23 PM UTC
Berelach wrote:
Can I please ask someone to confirm the dust-jacket prices on the first and second impressions of the 2004 Illustrated Hardback Edition of The Silmarillion?
First impression was £30 (and mine also has a collins booksellers sticker for 99.95 AUD -- books used to be super expensive in Australia).
Don't know about the 2nd impression.
1 Dec, 2019
2019-12-1 8:14:42 PM UTC
I have a first impression with the price as £30.00
Also, I see my map is glued to the verso of the last free endpaper, meaning the only way to see it is if the book is closed (except for the rear board) as it unfolds into the gutter. Anyone else have the same position (are they all like this?). I won’t replace my copy as it is signed and sketched in by Ted to me, but it would be good to know if there are maps that fold out so you can look at them while you read.
1 Dec, 2019
2019-12-1 8:17:54 PM UTC
Urulókë wrote:
I have a first impression with the price as £30.00
Also, I see my map is glued to the verso of the last free endpaper, meaning the only way to see it is if the book is closed (except for the rear board) as it unfolds into the gutter. Anyone else have the same position (are they all like this?). I won’t replace my copy as it is signed and sketched in by Ted to me, but it would be good to know if there are maps that fold out so you can look at them while you read.
The map in mine is attached in the same way.
1 Dec, 2019
2019-12-1 8:27:26 PM UTC
Thank you both, that was fast service! My first has the map glued in the same way as well. The 2nd impression I have is priced at £25; I guess they were able to drop £5 along with the fold out map (still printed in Belgium).
1 Dec, 2019
2019-12-1 9:04:08 PM UTC
Berelach wrote:
Thank you both, that was fast service! My first has the map glued in the same way as well. The 2nd impression I have is priced at £25; I guess they were able to drop £5 along with the fold out map (still printed in Belgium).
I wonder how many printings it is up to now -- still available, I think.
1 Dec, 2019
2019-12-1 9:32:51 PM UTC
Stu wrote:
I wonder how many printings it is up to now -- still available, I think.
The U.S. edition has passed thirteen.
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