Without contributing to the "what is is worth" side of the conversation for the deluxe "Tales from the Perlious Realm", my point is that I have been watching closely online for these, and this recent ebay copy is the one of the only copies that has come up for sale anywhere (ABEBooks, Amazon third party sellers, eBay, Biblio, Alibris, etc.) that I have noted for at least six months that isn't ridiculous (there's one from a China seller on Biblio.com right now for over $600, I am not even sure that isn't a phishing scam instead of a real copy). These are quite scarce on the open marketplace, currently.

Trotter, it did sell: see image below.

Urulöké, do you not think decently priced copies will start to reappear on the market though?

BH

I certainly hope so, and assuming they are all in circulation I think they will come down in price eventually. Buyers have to be patient for that to happen though!

Uncanny, isn't it?!
https://affiliates.abebooks.com/c/9724 ... Dwant%26cm_ite%3Dviewbook

BH

I'm pretty sure you could still buy this new from Tolkien.co.uk until fairly recently (I'm referring to the Alan Lee signed version limited to 500 copies with the different information sheet, but otherwise identical to the non-signed one). They took a LONG time to sell.

I can't image that anyone would ever pay $500 for it (but if anyone wants to, I have a spare one in a box )

Stu wrote:
I'm pretty sure you could still buy this new from Tolkien.co.uk until fairly recently (I'm referring to the Alan Lee signed version limited to 500 copies with the different information sheet, but otherwise identical to the non-signed one). They took a LONG time to sell.

I can't image that anyone would ever pay $500 for it (but if anyone wants to, I have a spare one in a box )

They could ask me as well, as I also have a spare.

I am struggling with the £110 price on this UK 1961 3rd edition Hobbit and the 'acceptable' condition from the seller, not a lot to go on from the seller apart from a picture of the 'acceptable' binding.

eBay Item #171360227506

Trotter,

That's....... not acceptable. By any definition I can think of.

Urulöké wrote:
Trotter,

That's....... not acceptable. By any definition I can think of.

'Acceptable' is such a silly term for eBay to have forced on book buyers. What is acceptable to one person might be completely unacceptable to someone else. It really is meaningless. Reading between the lines, the term usually seems to be used to mean 'knackered'.

Anyone know what edition this is? I don't recall ever seeing this TT edition, but maybe I am just being dense this morning. Serious lack of info from the auction itself, of course.

eBay Item #141322945917

Further investigation shows a faint "voyager classics" watermark on the front cover, so I guess that answers that.

Houghton Mifflin paperback edition, quite common.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Classics_Collection
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Voyager-Class ... R-R-Tolkien-/330934301677
https://www.amazon.com/Return-King-J-R ... collsguid-20&linkCode=osi