Yes, I’ll be there tomorrow (Friday, May 1st) and will be on the look out for anything new.

There are a number of items, like letters, that will be on display again this year by the same dealers, but maybe we will get something different.

Yeah slim pickings this year if I’m being honest

The FoTR advanced reviewer copy is pretty interesting

Foxrook wrote:

Yeah slim pickings this year if I’m being honest

I assume Manhattan Rare Books had their Tolkien letters on display again? Any other dealers have letters?

Personally, I didn’t see any. But let me know if I just missed it! Would be nice if there actually were some.

LanceFormation wrote:

I assume Manhattan Rare Books had their Tolkien letters on display again? Any other dealers have letters?

I'm going tomorrow, though it looks like it's slim pickings at the main fair. Perhaps there will be spoils at the Shadow Fair. There was a pristine 1-1-1 set of LOTR in jackets there last year

I was there this afternoon and really saw not much more Tolkien material than what was already posted.

And I did look closely at that US 1954 FotR advance review copy…but didn’t buy it.

Firsts 2026 (London)

A lot of Tolkien items at the event, though the largest display was from tomwa