Links to Articles
Publishing The Lord of the Rings
V The First Impression of RotK
VI The First Boxed Edition
VII The Readers Union Edition
VIII The First Deluxe Edition
IX Printing and Binding LotR
XIV LotR: A Bibliography
XV LotR: A Bibliography of Slipcases
The History of Middle-earth series
I A Guide to the Contents
II Prices on Dustwrappers
III Original Retail Prices
IV Print Run Sizes
V The Guild Publishing Editions
VI Shaping of Middle-earth Wrapper
VII Peoples of Middle-earth Pulped?
Other Articles
Christopher Tolkien Bibliography
I Think I've Got A Hobbit
Missing Images
Nasty Tricksy Hobbits
Printing and Binding The Hobbit
Songs for the Philologists
The Princess Hobbit
-- Ferguson Dewar
-- Letter from J. R. R. Tolkien
-- Gandalf: Not 'Magician' but 'Wizard'
-- Visions of Gollum
-- Of Smaug and the Jabberwock
-- Magazine Gallery
Tolkien Calendars
Tolkien the Esperantist?
Tolkien's Languages and Alphabets
Unpublished Manuscript Found?
This area of the site consists of several short articles detailing a variety of aspects of interest to collectors of books from The History of Middle-earth.
Part I - A Guide to the Contents - a guide to the contents of each volume in the series.
Part II - Prices on Dustwrappers - illustrates the various ways that dustwrappers have been priced, and discusses which (if any) should be thought of as being the earliest state.
Part III - Original Retail Prices - a breakdown of how much the books cost originally, and when the prices were increased.
Part IV - Print Run Sizes - a summary of the information given in Wayne Hammond's bibliography, together with information supplied by HarperCollins.
Part V - When Were the Guild Editions Published? - discusses a possible error in Hammond's Tolkien bibliography
Part VI - The Shaping of Middle-earth Dustwrapper - illustrates and discusses the various states of the dustwrapper.
Part VII - Was The Peoples of Middle-earth Pulped? - discusses the rumour, identifies a possible origin and gives a definitive answer.
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