garm wrote:

'Nodens' is available in Tolkien Studies Vol.4

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/215142

I am talking about the original publication.

The problem is that with titles like Lydney Park, there are usually one or two floating around and probably a similar number of potential buyers, so it doesn't take much of an increase in demand to mean there are no copies floating around. It probably gives quite a distorted view of the market for the item to go from some to none, relative to the actual change in demand.

I wonder what happened to the book spine here?

Urulókë wrote:

I wonder what happened to the book spine here?

J.R.R. TOLKIEN 'The Return Of The King' 1960 1st UK h/b ed'n 6th imp + D/J - EX

114925662783

Seller: breadbin1951

(1551)

Ended Aug 14, 2021

This item ended more than 90 days ago

Looks like it may have been stored poorly. Perhaps stacked in with a bunch of other books unevenly...overtime it probably warped the spine.

Ligandil wrote:

https://affiliates.abebooks.com/c/9724 ... 3Dsnippet-_-srp1-_-title3

Every time one of these comes up for sale, I'm happily reminded of this crazy episode:

https://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/n ... php?topic_id=2843&start=0

Stu wrote:

The problem is that with titles like Lydney Park, there are usually one or two floating around and probably a similar number of potential buyers, so it doesn't take much of an increase in demand to mean there are no copies floating around. It probably gives quite a distorted view of the market for the item to go from some to none, relative to the actual change in demand.

I noticed the same 2 copies on Abebooks that you did Stu. When lataraoxalic started pushing the prices of 'lydney park' upwards i thought those 2 copies on AbeBooks would go fast and they sure did. It might be a new normal for this item.

Stu wrote:

Ligandil wrote:

https://affiliates.abebooks.com/c/9724 ... 3Dsnippet-_-srp1-_-title3

Every time one of these comes up for sale, I'm happily reminded of this crazy episode:

https://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/n ... php?topic_id=2843&start=0

That is an insane exchange. What was it Junior Soprano said? "some people are so far behind in a race that they actually believe they are winning".

Stu wrote:

Ligandil wrote:

https://affiliates.abebooks.com/c/9724 ... 3Dsnippet-_-srp1-_-title3

Every time one of these comes up for sale, I'm happily reminded of this crazy episode:

https://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/n ... php?topic_id=2843&start=0

That EXACT exchange is the first one i read on this site after finding it 😂. I had started my Silm collection and was researching (googling) info. Somehow i ran across that conversation an i remember laughing as i was reading through the entire exchange. It got rather heated (potentially one sided) if i remember correctly