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Hanson's Christmas Auction

11 Dec, 2022 (edited)
2022-12-11 7:35:48 AM UTC

Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers 16th December 2022 09:30 GMT

Lot 19 Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit, first American edition, second state [publisher's logo]

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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit, first American edition, second state [publisher's logo on title, 'Chapter VI instead of VII on p. 118], Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. Octavo, publisher's cloth, map endpapers, half-title, colour frontispiece, 310pp., lacking colour plate to face p. 118, all other plates present as called for, contents generally clean & bright, occasional creasing & tears including to some of the plates, one plate detached, cloth with general discolouration and splitting to joints, wear to corners, sold with all faults

Estimate 200 GBP - 300 GBP

Sold for £620 excluding fees

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auc ... utm_content=lot-view-link

Lot 42 Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings. The Two Towers, fourth impression

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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings. The Two Towers, fourth impression, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1956, publisher's red cloth with unclipped third impression dust-jacket, protective mylar cover; The Return of the King, second impression, Unwin, November 1955, red cloth, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 21s with reviews on rear flap), protective mylar cover. Contents very good, clean, bright, folding maps at rear of each volume are very well-preserved, slight cockling to gutters of each book, endpapers with some pale offsetting/spotting, neat owner inscription dated 1956 to ffep of each book, dust-jackets good & bright with some light surface wear around edges, some toning & pale staining to spines, very slight loss to top joint of Return, cloth boards discoloured/stained & slightly bowed, perhaps cleaned (2)

Estimate 400 GBP - 600 GBP

Sold for £320 excluding fees

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auc ... e2-48bf-ba9c-af670101ba37
19 Dec, 2022
2022-12-19 8:45:45 AM UTC
The Hobbit is now for sale on eBay

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Seller: priorys
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Ended Dec 19, 2022
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It sold for £620 at auction three days ago.
19 Dec, 2022 (edited)
2022-12-19 1:22:18 PM UTC

Trotter wrote:

The Hobbit is now for sale on eBay

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Seller: priorys
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It sold for £620 at auction three days ago.

This book is a mess. Lots of issues with it. Could see it being bought as a restoration or rebind project.

*Update: Appears to have sold.
20 Dec, 2022 (edited)
2022-12-20 9:33:10 AM UTC
It has been relisted

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Seller: priorys
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Ended Dec 29, 2022
This item ended more than 90 days ago


As well as a raft of other issues, the listing mentions that a plate is missing, which is Bilbo Woke up with the Early Sun in his Eyes

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29 Dec, 2022
2022-12-29 11:05:43 PM UTC
Sold for over $2100 USD in it's poor condition. Just crazy, IMO
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