Tolkien, The Silmarillion 1st ed. signed [eBay]

Looks more than i bit dodgey to me..Compare it to the limited edition signed by Christopher Tolkien and Ted Nasmith currently on ebay at


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Guthlaf

I know how the limited edition looks like... still i have seen 1st silmarillions with a bookplate by A&U which has the same autograph...

I'd like to see some solid provenance on the book, but I have seen similar signatures on other books. Hoping Deagol (whom I think has at least one signature, and perhaps met Chris) can weigh in.

Jeremy

It looks ok to me - see this signature from 1992 which is definitely genuine:




The signed cards were given out to attendees of a banquet at the 1992 Centenary conference. CT was at the banquet (sadly too many people there for everybody to meet him) and a couple of days before he read 'The New Shadow' (the unfinished sequel to LotR) at the Sheldonian Theatre - Awesome!

The signature in the 1998 deluxe edition is very scruffy - he must have been having a bad day!

hello everyone.

the signature looks genuine to me

I have a 1st Us Ed of the Silmarillion (with good provenance), signed on the title page by Christopher Tolkien in 1987, and it looks exactly like the one on the signed card posted by Deagol.

As for the C. Tolkien signature in the Limited 1998 edition, if you had the task of signing 500 books; would'nt your signature be done very rapidly and scrawl like and be very distorted from your normal signature?