Alas, a collectible or just kind of old Don Quixote might be beyond my resources! I just have a Penguin Classics paperback from some years ago, for that one.

It would have been more precise for me to have written that Tolkien recommended The Same Scourge to his son Michael, but from Cilli's entry it's not entirely clear to me that Michael's copy was his father's gift, though that's the implication.

Dale Nelson wrote:

I think Tolkien acknowledged a bit of debt to Crockett’s Black Douglas, so I bought and read a worn copy for not much money. My other Crockett cost nothing. I climbed into a big paper recycling dumpster to rescue it.

I love that Red Axe cover. So simply beautiful.

One more sort of collectible book with a Tolkienian connection. Verlyn Flieger has much to say about Dunne’s book as an element in Tolkien’s thought, in A Question of Time. This paperback, which has its own dustwrapper, seems to be 80 years old.

I have always been impressed with paperbacks that had dust-jackets, they were quite common in the 1930s. As an example, some early UK Penguin paperbacks had dust-jackets. If the dust-jacket survives, then the books often look like new.

Not aware of any Tolkien paperbacks that were issued with dust-jackets, as this practice has stopped by the 1960's.

There is a 1980s set of Houghton Mifflin trade paperbacks with jackets. Only individual copies, though, the slipcased set doesn’t come with the jackets!

https://www.tolkienbooks.us/lotr/us/tp ... e-return-of-the-king-1988

And there are various paperback foreign translations issued with dust jackets. Notably the 1960 first Polish edition of The Hobbit.