Interesting eBay Auctions

Mar 14, 2012
2012/3/14 5:19:00 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

I am going to start putting interesting eBay auctions I run across (separate from the head scratching thread The Wonders of eBay ) that I think are interesting or worth a look. Feel free to add your own, or add commentary on anything posted here. I am not the seller or affiliated with any of these sellers, by default.

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Trotter

Aug 24, 2019
2019/8/24 5:05:59 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

The Dust-jacket is also printed to war economy standard and is much thinner very very few copies survived!

I can't tell any difference in dust-jacket thickness between the 1942/1946 Hobbits and the other 1st/2nd/3rd edition dust-jackets.

Trotter

Aug 30, 2019
2019/8/30 17:12:21 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Not an eBay auction, but someone may be interested.

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot ... ywordalertlive&utm_term=2

Druss

Aug 31, 2019
2019/8/31 7:46:25 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Stu wrote:

The market clearly showed it was only worth £1600. I hope, like Dogfark, he is stuck holding his now-overpriced book for a long time. That said, at least this copy hasn't been tampered with to make it look better than it is...

Sorry to ask, but does the 1942 The Children's Book Club Hobbit is worth the same that the basic 1942 A&U edition ?

Stu

Aug 31, 2019
2019/8/31 7:50:17 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Druss wrote:
Stu wrote:

The market clearly showed it was only worth £1600. I hope, like Dogfark, he is stuck holding his now-overpriced book for a long time. That said, at least this copy hasn't been tampered with to make it look better than it is...

Sorry to ask, but does the 1942 The Children's Book Club Hobbit is worth the same that the basic 1942 A&U edition ?

With a dust jacket, I would think it might be worth more -- they are very uncommon.

laurel

Aug 31, 2019
2019/8/31 9:09:20 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Yep more by some way, only ever seen about 3-4 on ebay over many years

Trotter

Aug 31, 2019
2019/8/31 12:05:56 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

I'd agree, only a small number of GA&U copies exist with dust-jackets, but it looks like a lot less Foyle's original dust-jackets exist. In both cases, the condition for either existing dust-jackets is not good.

Druss

Aug 31, 2019
2019/8/31 15:59:19 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

If I understand you well, it's only the dust-jacket that make them valuable ?

Trotter

Aug 31, 2019
2019/8/31 16:11:50 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Not really, these are UK first edition's which are not easy to get hold of, however if you have a look at Deagol's excellent site for print numbers, http://tolkienbooks.net/php/earlyhobbits.php#1st

3000 Foyles Book Club Edition with very rare dust-jackets.
1509 GA&U with rare dust-jackets.

They are both UK 1st edition Hobbits printed in small numbers, but it does appear that even though more of the Book Club Edition were published than Allen & Unwin, less dust-jackets survive.

My Book Club copy has a facsimile dust-jacket, but it also has a value as a UK first edition Hobbit

Druss

Aug 31, 2019
2019/8/31 17:22:25 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Ah great. Thanks for the enlightenment, Trotter (I always fear to miss the nuances as I do not speak perfectly English).

Stu

Oct 8, 2019
2019/10/8 6:18:38 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

1997 Lord of the Rings 1st impression.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/books/rare-c ... 3446f9df3202c06732f00-004

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