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Black spine paperbacks

4 May, 2020
2020-5-4 4:04:13 PM UTC

Hi all, this is probably a simple answer but what books have been released in the black spine range? The ones that match the History of Middle-earth series is what I mean.

There is obviously the HoME series (13 volumes) plus the End of the Third Age (truncated), The History of the Hobbit (2 volumes), the Scull/Hammond Rings companion, Letters of, The Road to Middle-earth by Shippey, Tree and Leaf, Finn and Hengest, The Monsters and the Critics, and Sir Gawain. I know the larger pb editions of Rings/Hobbit/Silm/UT match the height and resemble the series. Am I missing anything else?
4 May, 2020
2020-5-4 7:16:07 PM UTC
Riverandom and Takes From the Perilous Realm also come in this series.

Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23 ... s_from_the_Perilous_Realm

Link: http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/File:Roverandom_(2002).jpg
4 May, 2020
2020-5-4 7:55:27 PM UTC
Thank you.
4 May, 2020
2020-5-4 8:28:13 PM UTC

@Eorl wrote:
Riverandom and Takes From the Perilous Realm also come in this series.

Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23 ... s_from_the_Perilous_Realm

Link: http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/File:Roverandom_(2002).jpg

I don't really consider those to be a match though they do have black spines.

This is a picture from a couple years ago before I got rid of about half of these. I think you've got them all, but there's a copy of the Tyler 'Tolkien Companion' that is similar (bottom right) and an 'On Fairy Stories' as well that looks kind of close (middle).

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4 May, 2020
2020-5-4 8:47:53 PM UTC
Thank you Berelach that is the money shot. Indeed, I have them all now. I was missing the Shippey as I had not gotten around to getting a pb version. Wanted to make sure. Thanks.
4 May, 2020
2020-5-4 10:25:33 PM UTC
Problem: there's no black spine Beren and Luthien or The Fall of Gondolin. And the black spine Children of Hurin features no colour illustrations (that edition's existence always puzzled me, as there was nothing wrong with the 2008 paperback, so another edition in papeback isn't needed)
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