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1st Longman's Hobbit Print - Size discrepancy
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Stu
1st Longman's Hobbit Print - Size discrepancy
31 Jul, 2017
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Edited by Stu on 2017-7-31 4:21:07 AM UTC
2017-7-31 4:08:07 AM UTC
Both first prints, but a couple of mm difference in height and width (which, of course, means I need to keep both)
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Stu
1 Aug, 2017
2017-8-1 9:19:20 AM UTC
I've done a bit of digging through old listings on the internet and it is clear there are two distinct states of the first impression. It isn't clear which one came first, although I suspect the one on the left (the slightly larger one).
The Great Tales of Middle-earth Boxed Set: The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien & The Fall of Gondolin
On This Day
Carpenter #165: Letter from
J.R.R. Tolkien
to
Houghton Mifflin Co.
• 30 June 1955
(#478)
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