Ithildin wrote:

You can order them directly from walking tree (www.walking-tree.com) and you get discount if you purchase more than 5 editions

True! Prices do not include shipping (might be from Germany, depends on where they have stock/printers). Here is the link to their order form with pricing and bulk discounts:

http://shop.walking-tree.org/sales/in ... mplete_table¤cy=USD

Urulókë wrote:

Ithildin wrote:

You can order them directly from walking tree (www.walking-tree.com) and you get discount if you purchase more than 5 editions

True! Prices do not include shipping (might be from Germany, depends on where they have stock/printers). Here is the link to their order form with pricing and bulk discounts:

http://shop.walking-tree.org/sales/in ... mplete_table¤cy=USD

Oof! Time to stock up

Some of the items I acquired in the month of January I've been hunting Hobbits the last few months.

'77 Rankin & Bass Hobbit (1st Printing)
'74 HMH "collectors edition" Hobbit (1st Printing)
'74 HMH "collectors edition" LOTR (1st Printing)
'00 Hobbit black box set complete with postcards
'59 A&U Hobbit
70th Anniversary edition Hobbit in case
'61 A&U Hobbit
'61 Puffin Hobbit
'88 Unwin Hyman (Guild) Hobbit
'66 Longman's Hobbit (1st Printing)
'90 Unwin Hyman Deluxe Hobbit
'00 HMH Millennium 7 volume edition LOTR
'50 HMH Farmer Giles of Ham (1st Printing)
Tolkien Maker of Middle-earth deluxe box set

Nice!

You've been busy Mr. Underhill! Great to see.

I've just bought a copy of the Abrams (Rankin & Bass) Hobbit myself as well - waiting for it to arrive. I've been on a super casual hunt for that for years, looking for the acetate (clear) dustjacket in great condition. Fingers crossed. It is a fun edition, certainly!

This edition was released in October of 1977 according to Hammond's Bibliography (p. 52) - I am pretty sure your copy is a first and the 1978 just a typo in your post?

I love the garish blue and orange colors on the US Farmer Gile of Ham. We Americans certainly like to go big on redesigning the UK editions, don't we? ?

Urulókë wrote:

You've been busy Mr. Underhill! Great to see.

I've just bought a copy of the Abrams (Rankin & Bass) Hobbit myself as well - waiting for it to arrive. I've been on a super casual hunt for that for years, looking for the acetate (clear) dustjacket in great condition. Fingers crossed. It is a fun edition, certainly!

This edition was released in October of 1977 according to Hammond's Bibliography (p. 52) - I am pretty sure your copy is a first and the 1978 just a typo in your post?

I love the garish blue and orange colors on the US Farmer Gile of Ham. We Americans certainly like to go big on redesigning the UK editions, don't we? ?

Quite right Uruloke '77, my mistake. The acetate DJ on this one has a couple of tears but otherwise in pretty good shape.

I absolutely love the Farmer Giles, when I saw it for the price that I did, I had to jump on it even though a couple of parts of the DJ are missing at the top.

This is the result of just one month, Mr. Underhill ? ?
Just slow down, there is nothing else left for us ?
May I ask about the price you’ve paid for FGoH?

Ithildin wrote:

This is the result of just one month, Mr. Underhill ? ?
Just slow down, there is nothing else left for us ?
May I ask about the price you’ve paid for FGoH?

Lol, I don't usually get this much...there were just a few items I came upon last month where the price was right. I paid $45 for Farmer Giles. I had never seen one that low before.

The '88 Hobbit is presumably the '88 Guild Hobbit with UH Wrapper? I don't think a red sun wrapper without a stripe was ever actually issued by UH, except on the Guild edition.

Congrats Mr. Underhill, this was a bargain ?
I’ll post my recent acquisitions hopefully in a few days, when arriving...