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22 Nov, 2025
2025-11-22 9:22:20 PM UTC
A fairly damaged copy is up for auction on ebay. Sadly no spine on this one and a few stamps.


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Seller: zoej2002
(84)
Ended Nov 27, 2025
This item ended more than 90 days ago
23 Nov, 2025
2025-11-23 7:13:07 AM UTC
And another copy! These seem to come up in waves.

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Seller: thereadingcornerau
(2279)
Buy-It-Now:
AU $4,999.95
23 Nov, 2025
2025-11-23 12:22:03 PM UTC

Tall Hobbit wrote:

And another copy! These seem to come up in waves.

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Seller: thereadingcornerau
(2279)
Buy-It-Now:
AU $4,999.95

Ridiculous asking price.
23 Nov, 2025
2025-11-23 5:55:07 PM UTC
Tell me about it!
31 Dec, 2025 (edited)
2025-12-31 10:05:01 PM UTC
High starting bid price, second impression
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Seller: bookabrak11
(2046)
Ended Jan 5, 2026
£2,500.00
12 January
2026-1-12 12:43:18 PM UTC
Charity shop staff ‘thrilled’ as rare edition of The Hobbit fetches £3,000
The edition of JRR Tolkien’s much-loved classic was among a pile of old children’s books donated to the Oxfam bookshop in Stirling.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ ... ure-reading-b2898490.html
12 January
2026-1-12 1:50:11 PM UTC
Only about 1,500 copies of the edition were ever printed across two impressions, and it is believed fewer than 50 survive today.

Is the consensus really that only 3% of the original 1,500 remain?
12 January
2026-1-12 1:53:20 PM UTC

SamwiseTheBrave wrote:

Only about 1,500 copies of the edition were ever printed across two impressions, and it is believed fewer than 50 survive today.

Is the consensus really that only 3% of the original 1,500 remain?

Yes, the TolkienGuide was not quoted, but that figure comes from this site.
12 January
2026-1-12 2:04:32 PM UTC

Trotter wrote:

Yes, the TolkienGuide was not quoted, but that figure comes from this site.
I guess those school kids really roughed 'em up.
12 January
2026-1-12 2:06:04 PM UTC

SamwiseTheBrave wrote:

Trotter wrote:

Yes, the TolkienGuide was not quoted, but that figure comes from this site.
I guess those school kids really roughed 'em up.

We have been the only source of information on how many of these have been seen on the second hand market for a long time.
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