Nothing too rare, but happy to finally add this beautiful oversized book to my collection (for a good price, 50 euros postage incl.): the 1979 GA&U edition of Pictures.

Nice ! Also looking for it in good condition and at reasonable price :)

Great deal! With inflation you got it below cost.

I realized I haven’t shown recent acquisitions in a few months, so here you go. Mostly research/reading material catching up this time. Let me know if you have any thoughts/questions on any of them. 😉

Nice to see all those Walking Tree's together.

This purchase of nine Walking Tree books (from a fellow collector) brings me up to 15, out of the more than forty titles they have released so far - a long way to go!

Which fanzines? And the Calendar?

Urulókë wrote:

This purchase of nine Walking Tree books (from a fellow collector) brings me up to 15, out of the more than forty titles they have released so far - a long way to go!

I only have a few, but obviously I would like to get more. I know that some can be purchased through Amazon if anyone else is interested.

Arbor wrote:

Which fanzines? And the Calendar?

Fanzines are:

• Bhismi'llah #6, January 1961 - "Slow Train Through Gondor #3: Hobbit on the Road", 8 page autobiographical article by Ted Johnstone (not actually Tolkien related, but I had to buy the issue so I could read it to find that out. Still, a fun article title)
  
• Gaul v2n2, March 1962 - contains 3 page article "The Ring is Looked Through Again" by Larry McCombs combining a lot of discussion from many letter writers after an article in a prior issue of Gaul - including Walter Breen, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Bernie Zuber and others.
  
• Silmé #2, August 1962 - art fanzine with photo of the "Fellowship of the Ring" art show trophy
  
• Cry #169, August 1963 - photo of "Astrid Anderson as Meriadoc" from masquerade at Westercon XVI (I believe - still have to read the entire issue)
  

Calendar is the 2021 Silmarillion calendar, self published by Elena Kukanova in Russia, bought directly from the artist.

Mr. Underhill wrote:

Urulókë wrote:

This purchase of nine Walking Tree books (from a fellow collector) brings me up to 15, out of the more than forty titles they have released so far - a long way to go!

I only have a few, but obviously I would like to get more. I know that some can be purchased through Amazon if anyone else is interested.

You can order them directly from walking tree (www.walking-tree.com) and you get discount if you purchase more than 5 editions