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22 Oct, 2011
2011-10-22 11:13:16 AM UTC
I know, obviously I am first in line in buying this item as he is my uncle.
22 Oct, 2011
2011-10-22 12:32:23 PM UTC
I have to move to the UK, won't find items like this in Swedish Charity Shops!
22 Oct, 2011 (edited)
2011-10-22 12:39:49 PM UTC
From Oxfam! Luckier and luckier! Oxfam shops usually send anything remotely valuable to a central depot for valuation, don't they? or at least, I'm sure they did once. This must have slipped thru the net.
22 Oct, 2011
2011-10-22 1:10:44 PM UTC
It does not surprise me... I know what I have bought there in 1991 and 1992 and 1994... and only three times I went to oxfam bookshop and every time hit the jackpot. I have wished more often to live in the UK... but then again always thought that these days at oxfam they would look out more carefully. Good for your uncle that it is still possible! This gives many of us hope again!!
22 Oct, 2011
2011-10-22 3:54:38 PM UTC
Awesome find!
22 Oct, 2011
2011-10-22 9:32:46 PM UTC
Congratulations to your uncle!
What a lucky find. :)
22 Oct, 2011
2011-10-22 9:44:42 PM UTC
I didn't, at first, read who opened this thread & thought "lucky b^$tard" (--excuse the language; it's what I thought!) But then I went back & noticed it was Trotter that posted it. You've got to be kidding!? You already have a Tolkien signature, so don't be greedy. garm, Beren --you can both beat it too, as you have plenty already! Is this for real Trotter?

BH
22 Oct, 2011
2011-10-22 9:59:50 PM UTC
Oh, tush! - one can never have too many... besides, you can always try for the Johnson Society menu. A very pretty piece
(it also has the sig. of H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Tolkien's fellow member of the 'Cave'; he's also the bod who gave CS Lewis his Viva Voce in 1919). So, two for the price of one!

22 Oct, 2011
2011-10-22 10:15:27 PM UTC
Yeh, it's in pencil though; which just isn't quite what you'd like. Besides, I don't want two for the price of one. I'd prefer one (Tolkien) for the price of half of one; which would be a half, of whatever that price was!

BH
22 Oct, 2011
2011-10-22 10:36:40 PM UTC
Here's a story, which only collectors would appreciate - you know how Jarrolds messed up the printing of the 2nd imp. of FotR? Yes, you do! Back in December '54.

Well, one of the things they did was to switch the places of the contents page and the 'Ring verse' page. Which favoured a book dealer I know - several years ago he popped into a 2nd hand bookshop and picked up a copy of this edition, marked £10.00. He flicked through, and was astonished to find Tolkien's signature under the Ring verse, which in the 2nd imp. comes after the foreword, instead of opposite the copyright page, as in every other impression! Hence the shop-owner didn't spot it when he checked the book's date.

Talk about luck!

So, my friend walks nonchalantly up to the counter; the bookshop owner asks, 'Are you a dealer?' (my friend did have rather a lot of other purchases with him). He answered 'Yes' - and got 10% off!

Talk about a lucky break...
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