Trotter wrote:
As a collector, who has a strict rule of only collecting UK editions of Tolkien's books, I now have quite a few US editions :)

Does this mean, that now you have essentially collected everything, you still have the collecting bug? :)

These ones, plus the smaller-format BCA Hardback Sil. (that looks like the GA&U one, but with red boards and smaller).

These remain my favourite paperbacks, and I don't think they have been bested or are likely to be, as artwork tastes have changed, I think.

For The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings: the Ballantine paperbacks with Barbara Remington covers. This was in 1970.

For The Silmarillion, the Houghton Mifflin first edition, bought on publication in 1977.

Wayne