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Stacey's Auctions 20th September 2021

4 Sep, 2021 (edited)
2021-9-4 6:45:23 AM UTC

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

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.

Estimate £50-£80
Sold for £310 including premium

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auc ... tm_content=lot-image-link

Lot 1702

Two boxes of JRR Tolkien hardback books including four first editions of The Silmarillion.

Estimate £50-£80
Sold for £396.80 including premium

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auc ... tm_content=lot-image-link

Lot 1703

Two boxes of JRR Tolkien paperback books.

Estimate £30-£40
Sold for £49.60 including premium

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auc ... tm_content=lot-image-link

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Stu

4 Sep, 2021
2021-9-4 7:37:43 AM UTC

Dealer box for sure. Similar, I imagine to the one my minty Silmarillion came from.

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Laurin

5 Sep, 2021
2021-9-5 10:10:12 AM UTC

I'm very interested in some of the hardcover books (Sil, UT, Lotr,H). So if someone here would organize such a consortium, I'd be in!

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Emilien

5 Sep, 2021
2021-9-5 10:24:34 AM UTC

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...

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northman

5 Sep, 2021
2021-9-5 10:33:10 AM UTC

Emilien wrote:
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'.

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Emilien

5 Sep, 2021
2021-9-5 10:42:18 AM UTC

northman wrote:
Emilien wrote:
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.

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northman

5 Sep, 2021
2021-9-5 10:49:33 AM UTC

Emilien wrote:
northman wrote:
Emilien wrote:
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?

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Emilien

5 Sep, 2021
2021-9-5 10:59:28 AM UTC

When zooming at the picture, the rest of the jacket seems to be consistently light brown, even if I consent that is hard to affirm.

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northman

5 Sep, 2021
2021-9-5 11:03:05 AM UTC

Emililen: i agree... looks uniform

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Laurin

20 Sep, 2021
2021-9-20 3:24:13 PM UTC

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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