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http://www.bonhams.com/search/?q=tolk ... &past_sales=future&_sub=1

- a couple of nice Tolkien lots.

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http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20981 ... BP&value_data_order_spec=[%27-value_low%27]&back_to_year=2003&date_range=future&main_index=lot&department=&query=tolkien&create_facets=False&value_data_range_display=

"TOLKIEN, J.R.R. 1892-1973.
The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again. London: George Allen & Unwin, [1937].
Original green pictorial cloth, endpapers illustrated by the author in red and black, pictorial dust jacket. Mild foxing to endpapers and a few spots within, light soiling, spine darkened, chip to head of jacket spine extending to top edge of front panel, price-clipped.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. AN UNSOPHISTICATED COPY. With "Dodgeson" corrected in ink on rear flap of jacket. The first edition was published on September 21, 1937, with an initial print run of 1,500 copies. By December 15 it had entirely sold out. Following the tremendous success of the Hobbit, Tolkien was prompted by his publisher's for more novels set in middle-earth, which led to the writing of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Hammond A3.a. "


http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20698 ... BP&value_data_order_spec=[%27-value_low%27]&back_to_year=2003&date_range=future&main_index=lot&department=&query=tolkien&create_facets=False&value_data_range_display=

"TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)
The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., third impression of The Return of the King, fifth impressions of The Fellowship and The Two Towers, 3 folding maps, ownership inscriptions on endapers, publisher's red cloth, dust-jackets (unclipped), 8vo, George Allen and Unwin, 1956-1957
Estimate:
£400 - 600
US$ 630 - 940
€470 - 700"

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Posted on: 2013/6/19 11:38

Edited by Trotter on 2013/6/19 11:50:39
Edited by Trotter on 2013/6/19 11:53:16


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Prob. library bindings - An interesting set, because of the typography and pictures on the front of TT and RK.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/J-R-R-Tolkien ... tible&hash=item1e7bffc7b3



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This one's even worse - there are pages missing, but the tape is still there!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Hobbit-by ... ks_UK&hash=item58a128f67d




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The item fetched 1150 euros.

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