It doesn't seem like the seller is generally interested in accuracy:
"This is a Lord of the Rings First U.S. Edition Trilogy. The Lord of the Rings is the first printing and it is a rare and valuable undated copy with no price on the dust jacket. The Two Towers and The Return of the King are both the seventh printings. The first printing includes the fold out black and red map and the photo of Tolkien on the back of the dust jacket cut-off in a straight line. Only 3,000 of these books were printed. Half had the 1954 date and First Edition on the copyright page and half had no date or attribute on the copyright page and no price on the dust jacket because they were printed for possible export."
It doesn't seem like the seller is generally interested in accuracy:
"This is a Lord of the Rings First U.S. Edition Trilogy. The Lord of the Rings is the first printing and it is a rare and valuable undated copy with no price on the dust jacket. The Two Towers and The Return of the King are both the seventh printings. The first printing includes the fold out black and red map and the photo of Tolkien on the back of the dust jacket cut-off in a straight line. Only 3,000 of these books were printed. Half had the 1954 date and First Edition on the copyright page and half had no date or attribute on the copyright page and no price on the dust jacket because they were printed for possible export."
Yeah, I didn't share this one specifically because of the "1st print" in the subject and that poorly programmed AI description. Still, the pictures are clear and plentiful enough. I think this was the set with the beautiful front covers but weirdly damaged spines?
I think this was the set with the beautiful front covers but weirdly damaged spines?
The jackets for these volumes are very fragile especially the spines as those get handled much more than the rest of the jacket and don’t hold up to years of wear and tear that many of these volumes were subject to over the years. I have many of these volumes and have been fortunate to find some with pristine spines, so this set suffers from the same as many others. The paper that HMCO used for these was very flimsy and cheap.
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