Here you go Woodsy,
my collector's editions of 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of The Rings'.
I had never heard of 'The Hobbit' until it was given as a reading assignment in my freshman year at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. I had already been reading sci-fi and a bit of fantasy, but this was new to me and needless to say, I was hooked.
I originally bought the paperback editions you recently blogged but a couple of years later - in 1974 - these hard cover/slipcase collector's editions became available and I snatched them up.
I went on to read all four books nearly every year for about 20 years or so.
Has anyone else got Tolkien books?
From Far West of The Shire
Ed
My copies of The Lord of the Rings are very slightly collectable, they're Unwin paperbacks in a slip case. My only other claim to Tolkien scholarship is that my Anglo-Saxon tutor at Oxford was Tolkien's pupil at Pembroke College. But I don't remember him coming out with any Tolkien anecdotes!
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