Low starting price (is the most common printing -- 4th -- though)

eBay Item #221550718302

Thanks Trotter
appreciated

I must have missed the other advance Sil when nothing in header to suggest it was anything other than a standard copy.

Note to self: Check every Sil listing to make sure

laurel, I must have missed it for the same reason as you!

And there was indeed a Tolkien Society library in 1977.

- wellinghall

Note that this is a private auction, so I would very strongly recommend that any bidder only use a bid sniping service and not eBay proxy bidding, as there is an *extremely high* risk of shill bidding on private listings.

eBay Item #191338117506

By no means a perfect copy, and I'm guessing the inscription is probably embarrassing (It is so annoying that sellers so often mention an inscription and then specifically avoid showing it). Still, might end up being a cheaper copy for someone who simply wants to complete their set.

eBay Item #141418892317

Stu wrote:
By no means a perfect copy, and I'm guessing the inscription is probably embarrassing (It is so annoying that sellers so often mention an inscription and then specifically avoid showing it). Still, might end up being a cheaper copy for someone who simply wants to complete their set.

eBay Item #141418892317

I got a copy of the inscription for anyone interested in bidding, have seen a lot worse.

You would have to be mad to want this many copies of one book

eBay Item #301333252117

Trotter wrote:

Stu wrote:
By no means a perfect copy, and I'm guessing the inscription is probably embarrassing (It is so annoying that sellers so often mention an inscription and then specifically avoid showing it). Still, might end up being a cheaper copy for someone who simply wants to complete their set.

eBay Item #141418892317

I got a copy of the inscription for anyone interested in bidding, have seen a lot worse.

Went for GBP 41 (vs GBP 160 for the copy that didn't have any writing). A lesson to everyone not to write in books!