Three lots that look like they come from a book dealer (large quantities of the same books).
Can see this being bought and the duplicate copies being sold on eBay by a dealer, or if people here are interested these could be bought by a consortium from this site.
Lot 1701
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A box containing a collection of 14 first edition hardback copies of The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien together with 6 second impressions hardback copies of the same book.
There's a Sir Gawain and the green knight - Pearl - Sir Orfeo harback which has a brown spine. The original colour is green. Wondering why...
Some kind of bleaching effect? The original green is very '70's green'.
Yes maybe, but this effect doesn't affect the other books nearby. Moreover, the lettering on the spine of this edition of Sir Gawain should be orange, not white, unless the spine has faded, which seems unlikely considering that all the books around are new... Anyway from this picture the colour looks like the one used for the first UK edition of Finn and Hengest.
There's a Sir Gawain and the green knight - Pearl - Sir Orfeo harback which has a brown spine. The original colour is green. Wondering why...
Some kind of bleaching effect? The original green is very '70's green'.
Yes maybe, but this effect doesn't affect the other books nearby. Moreover, the lettering on the spine of this edition of Sir Gawain should be orange, not white, unless the spine has faded, which seems unlikely considering that all the books around are new... Anyway from this picture the colour looks like the one used for the first UK edition of Finn and Hengest.
Might have been stored in a different place or maybe aquired from a different origin at some point in time. Anyone have a slightly sunfaded copy that can compare the effect?
Auction's on. I'm not able to paticipate with my German credit cards. So if anyone here acquires the lots, please let me know, I'm very interested in some of the books.
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