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The Hobbit or There and Back Again.

TOLKIEN, J. R. R.

31232389575

$24555.26

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Interesting re-bind. Looks like cross stich on the front and back covers there.

An additional picture of the binding on the Peter Harrington site, a lovely binding https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/the-hobbit-152743.html

Some things you don’t find until after they sold… but for posterity:

50 CAD price drop, since the prior listing.

Urulókë wrote:

The Dialect of the Huddersfield District 1928 Haigh, foreword by J.R.R. Tolkien

234602798824

Seller: ibh_4696

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Ended Jul 3, 2022

This item ended more than 90 days ago

Note: ex-library

onthetrail wrote:

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The text "Concerning...The Hoard" is worth reading for it's probably the last version ever written by Tolkien about the events that to led to Thingol's death and the theft of the Silmaril by the Dwarves, version that is really different from the old ones (back to the 1930s Quenta and Sketch). It's the only version that explains how the whole hoard of Nargothrond was bring to Thingol with the help of the outlaws (probably in conjunction with the Wanderings of Hurin), and how Thingol get the dragon-sickness and provoked the Dwarves. Also, it's the only version that talks about a double throne for Melian and him, as the first cause of Thingol's refusal to pay the Dwarves.

Looks like a good candidate for rebinding.

Not a bad opening price for the red slipcase, which is much less common than the black since there were only two printings of it.