eBay Item #301294457078


[Edit: The price changed downward by two orders of magnitude, so presumably was a listing mistake]

Every time I see this listing it annoys me. I know the 1978 Guild Editions take "hideous faux leather" to new levels, but the artistically non-matching and irrelevant facsimile Dust Jacket just serves to make matters worse. Two quid book at best.

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The Hobbit or There And Back Again

J.R.R. TOLKIEN

6081396028

$218.33

Availability: Not Available

Check at Abebooks.com

At least the postage is free.....

eBay Item #141394406286

Claims to be 1961, but the 14th impression was actually 1963. Also, always a bit suspicious when a book is missing the copyright page. Presumably ex-Libris...

eBay Item #201111222162

The seller has an annoying bit of moving text on the listing stating that it is Tolkien's original cover, no it is not, that now belongs to the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and at the moment is on tour in New York.

A lot of changes were made on the cover, by 1963, from Tolkien's original cover.

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Last will and testament??

Indeed, Tolkien write a Testament.But I believe that selling is illegal. Perhaps someone had to advice Abebooks.

Furthermore, this edition of the Silmarillion dont worth that price.

Eduardo O. F.

Red wrote:
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Last will and testament??

$10 book and $0 photocopy, so only overpriced by $541

Variant cover...
eBay Item #311076448689

BH

Khamûl wrote:
Variant cover...
eBay Item #311076448689

BH

I see nothing wrong with this auction - Tolkein wrote almost exclusively about ensnaring trout. Not to be confused with Tolkien who, of course, wrote about Hobbits'n'that.