Q: Where is the Flora book printed?

Also, thanks for the Deluxe HoME pictures, Stu. Did you order this one:

https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Com ... &qid=1516205808251&sr=1-5

I am glad to see the LEGO version is the same height as the other Deluxe Edition books and looks very nice on the shelf (it is now matching, as it was expected). It seems most of the issues I had with it have been corrected in this "improved 1st print". I will buy this now to complete my collection as I don't have any versions of HoME anyways. Now I'm thinking maybe Kullervo also gets a "1st print" by LEGO?

As a side note, LEGO is clearly the best printer HC regularly uses and I wonder why they don't stop fooling around and stick with them for all their prints (at least the Deluxe stuff). I wonder how much more expensive is it to print with LEGO vs other, and if the extra cost of printing with them is not "made up" by the extra sales they get from positive word-of-mouth and reviews that typically follows a job well done (and I expect also a lesser % of returns due to misprints and quality issues). Would it help at all if we sent HC comments regarding this?

Trotter wrote:
Has anyone bought a copy of "Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium"

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flora-Middle-Earth-Plants-Tolkiens-Legendarium/dp/0190276312

Is it well researched?

Thanks for all for your responses have bought a copy.

Morinehtar wrote:
Q: Where is the Flora book printed?

Also, thanks for the Deluxe HoME pictures, Stu. Did you order this one:

https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Com ... &qid=1516205808251&sr=1-5

Yeah, that was where I ordered from. Was a bit cheaper when I ordered (in fact, oddly it was cheaper with an NZ IP than with a UK IP that day).

Morinehtar wrote:
Q: Where is the Flora book printed?

from the colophon:

Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press
[...]
Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc. United States of America

Recently I found a book shop called ‘bats over books’ is selling a very special 50th Anniversary edition of LOTR. According to the letter, it was produced for those who worked for this book and there are only 30copies. Is it real? Does anyone have any further information regarding this edition?

I removed the name from the letter, in the last image.

However, the person who sent the letter is exactly who I would expect to send it and it is a great find, did not know that they did this.

That's a lovely edition. Did you buy it?

No, I didn't. I remember it was listed for USD 2,995 and it has been sold now.

yee256 wrote:
No, I didn't. I remember it was listed for USD 2,995 and it has been sold now.

Yeah, it is nice, but I'm not sure it would be where I'd spend 3K, either.

Yes, it's real, one of thirty copies as described. We (as editors) have a copy, of course. We had a note about it in Tolkien Collector 27.

Wayne & Christina