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Unpublished Manuscript Found?
Hardback copies
The price for each volume doubled over the course of the publication of The History of Middle- earth, from £12.50 in 1983 to £25.00 in 1996. Stocks of hardback copies were exhausted by 1997/98. The prices changed in the following years:
- 1983 - £12.50
- 1985 - £14.95
- 1987 - £16.95
- 1988 - £17.95 - except for The Lays of Beleriand, which was priced at £18.95
- 1992 (early) - £20.00
- 1992 (late) - £25.00
Some HarperCollins copies, that appear to be first Impressions of the 1991 edition, are priced at £25.00 rather than at £20.00. This suggests that that were actually printed after the price rise in late 1992.
Paperback copies
The price for each volume more than tripled over the course of the publication of the series, from £2.95 in 1983 to £9.99 by 1993, but prices have remained stable ever since. The prices changed in the following years:
- 1985 - £2.95
- 1986 - £3.50
- 1987 - £3.95
- 1988 - £4.95
- 1989 - £4.99, then £5.50
- 1991 - £5.99
- 1992 - £6.99, then £7.99
- 1993 - £9.99
Due to the rapid escalation of prices in the early 90s there are a significant number of copies to be found with new prices and barcodes added on labels - one variant is shown here. These were probably applied fairly soon after the price rise in late 1993.
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