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A Secret Vice paperback edition
3 Jun, 2020
2020/6/3 23:56:56 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia
2020/6/3 23:56:56 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia
HarperCollins is releasing the paperback version of A Secret Vice - Tolkien on Invented Languages On July 9, 2020.
Dimitra Fimi reports that it incorporates some revisions, including restoring a previously illegible name to the text.
Love the new cover design!
224 pages
ISBN-10: 0008131414
ISBN-13: 978-0008131418
Pre-order now from a variety of booksellers:
Amazon.co.uk - Blackwell's - BookDepository - SpeedyHen
Dimitra Fimi reports that it incorporates some revisions, including restoring a previously illegible name to the text.
Love the new cover design!
224 pages
ISBN-10: 0008131414
ISBN-13: 978-0008131418
Pre-order now from a variety of booksellers:
Amazon.co.uk - Blackwell's - BookDepository - SpeedyHen
I hope Dimitra Fimi will published the revisions and the name on her website like H&S, for those who won't or can't buy this new edition.
I am hopeful as well, but from what I hear the material is primary (Tolkien’s writings) so the Estate has to give permission.
Dimitra did say they were 'minor', so I expect the most notable to be any typos like this, for example, "The cut jumped on the counter" should say "The cat jumped on the counter."
Just a reminder that this book is shipping today/tomorrow (depending on your time zone).
Order now from a variety of booksellers
Amazon.co.uk - Blackwell's - BookDepository - SpeedyHen
Order now from a variety of booksellers
Amazon.co.uk - Blackwell's - BookDepository - SpeedyHen
My copy shipped on the 6th! I'm in Canada, so I'm expecting it to arrive by September.
Untracked UK delivery from being shipped to receiving is at least 3 weeks. Factor in the excess parcels being processed, and covid measures....yeah, by Sept seems likely.
Untracked UK delivery from being shipped to receiving is at least 3 weeks. Factor in the excess parcels being processed, and covid measures....yeah, by Sept seems likely.
A small note on the changes to the text was shared by Dimitra (quoting here with her and Andrew's permission):
I’ll post a link to the blog post when it goes up.
The corrections are rather minor. A few misreadings have been corrected and a few words that were illegible before we've now managed to read as best as possible. There is a good story about one of these words (it's a name, actually!) which I can now write a blog post about...
I’ll post a link to the blog post when it goes up.
Another small tidbit of information - Christopher Tolkien designed the original hardcover for A Secret Vice.
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