Seen a handful of lettered copies of the AL sketchbook set over the years. There were definitely a few of them. I don't recall the other letters off hand.

In other Hobbit special edition news: deluxe edition of the Jemima Catlin illustrated Hobbit:

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J. R. R. Tolkien The Hobbit (Illustrated Deluxe Edition 2013) Jemima Catlin

236153572023

Seller: angelfield001

(181)

Ends Jun 23, 2025 6:28:31 PM UTC

EUR 321.00

[2 Bids]

A New Glossary of The Dialect of the Huddersfield District, by Walter E. Haigh.

1st Edition. pp. xxix, 166A little trivial wear to the top of the spine otherwise a nice copy. Scarce. Tolkien contributes a six page foreword.

Price: £650.00

https://www.michaelkemp.co.uk/si/_cl_47055.html

Just recording for posterity. Seems rather expensive (especially given the poorly centred dustjacket)

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Index (The History of Middle-earth, Book 13) by J. R. R. & C. Tolkien, Hardback

205550172363

Seller: arch.pow

(1654)

Ended Jun 17, 2025

£560.00

[20 Bids]

The late Stu wrote:

Just recording for posterity. Seems rather expensive (especially given the poorly centred dustjacket)

Hopefully this is an outlier and no one else is so uninformed and or impatient enough to pay this amount. Looks like 4 or 5 bidders were willing to pay over £300 for it though.

rosshm16 wrote:

The 1987 Unwin Hyman leather-bound "Super Deluxe" 50th Anniversary Hobbit. This is one of my white whales but I have a hard time justifying ~$3k for a book I already have five other deluxe editions of:

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The Hobbit. Foreword by Christopher Tolkien....

32191653923

(Hardcover)

£2306.22

Availability:

Check at Abebooks.com

It seems they dropped the price considerably. The same listing (I think?) now says ~$2300.

Thror's map is bound upside down in this copy. I feel like this same copy may have been sold or at least up for sale recently? The upside-down map sounds familiar.

Still too rich for my blood but seems like a good deal for anyone looking to pick up this edition.