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18 Mar
2023/3/18 15:21:35 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Trotter wrote:

John Howe's wonderful poster of Smaug which was used for the 1991 Grafton Hobbit

Lovely!
21 Mar
2023/3/21 14:50:28 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia
As a proud Welsh person, I'm doubly excited to have this in my collection.

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21 Mar
2023/3/21 14:56:41 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Tiny Turtle wrote:

As a proud Welsh person, I'm doubly excited to have this in my collection.

I really like this edition.
21 Mar
2023/3/21 15:09:01 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia
Excellent! By coincidence, a copy came up on Abebooks yesterday which I ordered right away. Will also post a picture when it arrives.
24 Mar
2023/3/24 9:52:37 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Éarendel wrote:

Excellent! By coincidence, a copy came up on Abebooks yesterday which I ordered right away. Will also post a picture when it arrives.

Excellent! I look forward to seeing it. I had an excellent one today. A fairly moderate first edition set came in the post, but with some lovely newspaper cuttings inside, including Tolkien's NYT obituary.

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24 Mar
2023/3/24 10:09:57 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Tiny Turtle wrote:

Excellent! I look forward to seeing it. I had an excellent one today. A fairly moderate first edition set came in the post, but with some lovely newspaper cuttings inside, including Tolkien's NYT obituary.

Thanks for sharing! And that's a nice haul of cuttings - lovely

(though the NYT obit seems to have got the wrong university when referring to the lecture on fairy stories - that was St. Andrews right?...)
24 Mar
2023/3/24 21:45:32 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia
What printings is those 1sts? Interesting mark on all three.
24 Mar (edited)
2023/3/24 23:31:12 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia
Haven't really been acquiring much of note recently (the trade and deluxe HotH will get their own review-ish post soon, so those aren't here).

Some fun items to note:

The New Futurian - Autumn 1954


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This has the first mention of The Lord of the Rings in a fanzine, that I have been able to find so far (it is a never-ending quest). It is a full page review of Fellowship from approximately October 1954.

Swedish Lord of the Rings


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Huge thanks to Predictable Matt for helping me track down this edition. Everyone has been sharing their Inger Edelfeldt covers and I needed some 😁

Tolkien's Hobbit Postcard book (sealed)


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Sometimes you chance across a fine condition set of something you've wanted for a while, at a great price. Bought sight unseen (just listed "as new" with no pictures). Couldn't be happier.

La Búsqueda del Palantir


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Spanish translation of the very last "Middle-earth Quest" gamebooks "Search for the Palantir" - in fact, the publisher didn't have time to release the English version before disaster, so the handful of translated editions is the only way to get this title.

Hobit (Silesian)


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New Silesian translation of The Hobbit. Love the cover art by Grzegorz Chudy on this!

Mystery Box


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I took a chance here and bought a box of "Tolkien stuff" completely sight unseen. A couple of issues of Mythlore and Minas Tirith Evening Star, an issue of the Chronicles of the Restoration newsletter, a first edition of Tolkien Bestiary, some MERP modules and a Mythopoeic Conference program book signed on the cover by Peter S. Beagle. Lots of fun to open! Also had about a three inch pile of ephemera (clippings, loose pages, and other things) that will take a while to go through. Well worth what I paid.
Yesterday (edited)
2023/3/25 2:38:50 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia

Urulókë wrote:


This has the first mention of The Lord of the Rings in a fanzine, that I have been able to find so far (it is a never-ending quest). It is a full page review of Fellowship from approximately October 1954.

Now there's something I haven't seen before, great find Urulókë!
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