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Heritage Auctions lots ending March 7 - LOTR early set and 1920 Book of Fairy Poetry

14 Feb, 2018 (edited)
2018-2-14 8:08:04 PM UTC

Heritage Auctions latest auction has two Tolkien related lots that may be of interest. The auction ends March 7, 2018 with live bidding, but online bids are accepted at any time.


J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings. London: [1959-1960]. First edition, later printings

The Fellowship of the Ring. London: George Allen and Unwin, [1960]. First edition, eighth impression. Octavo. Publisher's red cloth, in original dust jacket. Cloth edgeworn and rubbed. Jacket soiled and worn at edges; spine ends chipped; wear at folds. Interior toned with occasional touches of thumbsoiling. [Together with:] The Two Towers. London: George Allen and Unwin, [1959]. First edition, sixth impression. Octavo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. Jacket soiled overall; corners and spine ends frayed with some creasing around spine; spine darkened; reddish dampstain to front panel near joint. Cloth dampstained along lower edge interior toned; several pages dogeared. [And:] The Return of the King. London: George Allen and Unwin, [1959]. First edition, fifth impression. Octavo. Publisher's red cloth in original dust jacket. Jacket soiled; front panel rubbed; large dampstain to rear panel; spine ends chipped with resulting creases; folds worn. Cloth dampstained; mild toning to pages. Each volume in good condition overall, housed together in a custom slipcase. From the Collection of Daniel J. King.

[J. R. R. Tolkien, contributor]. Dora Owen, editor. The Book of Fairy Poetry. London: 1920.

[J. R. R. Tolkien, contributor]. [Warick Goble, illustrator]. Dora Owen, editor. The Book of Fairy Poetry. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920. First edition. Large octavo. [4], x, 180 pages; frontispiece and fifteen illustrated plates tipped to heavy green paper and inserted throughout, tissue guards. Recent dark blue crushed morocco, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, compartments lettered or stamped in gilt; boards tooled in gilt; marbled endpapers; original illustrated endpapers bound in at front, original cloth front cover and backstrip laid down and inserted at rear. Backstrip faintly dulled; boards very lightly rubbed. Text lightly tanned but pages still quite supple. Near fine. Includes the first illustrated publication of J. R. R. Tolkien's "Goblin's Feet." From a Private Collection in St. Charles, IL.
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15 Feb, 2018
2018-2-15 3:48:53 PM UTC
Find the rebinding of The Book of Fairy Poetry interesting, as the binding on the book is quite nice in the first place.

My copy does not have a dust-jacket, which is shown on http://tolkienbooks.net/php/details.php?reference=11420, but I think it must be a very small number of surviving copies that do.

Interesting to see a rebound example, and this may be only one.
2 May, 2018
2018-5-2 8:49:32 PM UTC
The Lord of the Rings sold for $937.50 including Buyer's Premium

The Book of Fairy Poetry sold for $475.00 including Buyer's Premium
16 Aug, 2020
2020-8-16 6:33:10 AM UTC
Hi! In The Book of Fairy Poetry is JRRT acknowledged as "Tolkein" (like in Fifty New Poems for Children and in The Open Door to Poetry) or in the correct form "Tolkien" (like in Oxford Poetry and Wonder Tales from Fairy Isles)? Thank you!
16 Aug, 2020
2020-8-16 9:30:39 AM UTC
Just checked my copy, his name is mentioned three times in the book, and on all three occasions his named is spelt correctly.
16 Aug, 2020
2020-8-16 1:07:38 PM UTC

Trotter wrote:

Just checked my copy, his name is mentioned three times in the book, and on all three occasions his named is spelt correctly.

Thank you, Trotter!
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