Huan68 wrote:

What are peoples thoughts on this signature? It’s not something I’d go for myself but as Tolkien didn’t particularly like how Puffin edited a few things in this edition, do you think he’d sign it?

It's a fake, and not a very good one at that...

Huan68 wrote:

What are peoples thoughts on this signature? It’s not something I’d go for myself but as Tolkien didn’t particularly like how Puffin edited a few things in this edition, do you think he’d sign it?

I know it’s fake but it definitely doesn’t look like it was penned on there fifty years ago let alone twenty.

Mr. Underhill wrote:

Huan68 wrote:

What are peoples thoughts on this signature? It’s not something I’d go for myself but as Tolkien didn’t particularly like how Puffin edited a few things in this edition, do you think he’d sign it?

It's a fake, and not a very good one at that...

Tolkien only ever signed one copy of the Puffin paperback Hobbit, for the owner of Penguin (Puffin's owner), Sir Allen Lane.

He later said that if he had looked at the book before signing it, he would not have done so.

The only legitimate Puffin signed book, would be signed and dedicated to Sir Allen Lane, and I believe that it is currently in the Penguin Archives, https://www.bristol.ac.uk/library/spec ... ctions/strengths/penguin/

Any other 'signed' Puffin paperbacks I treat as fakes.

Someone really mistreated this poor set

$2,800…but it does look nice 😀

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I write this with 20 minutes to go on the Puffin Hobbit auction on eBay, and it’s over £1300! Quite sad for someone when they find out the signature isn’t real.

Huan68 wrote:

I write this with 20 minutes to go on the Puffin Hobbit auction on eBay, and it’s over £1300! Quite sad for someone when they find out the signature isn’t real.

$3421…seems excessive 🤨

LanceFormation wrote:

Huan68 wrote:

I write this with 20 minutes to go on the Puffin Hobbit auction on eBay, and it’s over £1300! Quite sad for someone when they find out the signature isn’t real.

$3421…seems excessive 🤨

So what you’re saying is I need to buy a puffin paperback then pay a professional forger to forge Tolkien’s signature in it and then resell it for 6000% profit?

Dropping these here - prices are a wonder, but I do like to note interesting ephemera that shows up.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/131904343 ... -the-rings-by-jrr-tolkien

Completely reasonable resale price of a tolkienbookshelf set.