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Rayner Unwin
The making of the Lord of the rings. Limited Edition of 112 Copies 2018, 112 copies printed in July 2018. In coloured covers and with some added bibliographical information . 2 editions: A] 100 copies in stapled card covers numbered 1 - 100, with the ISBN 1 85476 052 1 SOLD OUT order via antiqbook.com and B] 12 copies in Italian hand-made marbled paper
covered boards and linen spine numbered I - XII with the ISBN 1 85476 053
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Originally Issued in a limited edition of 250 copies on
the occasion of the centenary celebrations at Keble college Oxford. 1992,
8pp., text and covers on cream paper and thin board and reprinted unchanged
with the same ISBN (100 copies) in 2007.
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Also:
AUDEN, W.H.,. Good and evil in the Lord of the Rings.. .., Oxford, 1993, 16pp., including the stiff front cover, issued originally as free insert for the 1992 catalogue Tolkien and Friends number 4, issued on the occasion of the centenary celebrations at Keble college, Oxford. there were 26 copies marked A - Z for friends of the publisher, never made available in the trade. Printed on single sides, A-4 with front cover in 3 colours (initials W and A) on conqueror paper, This edition has a colophon which did not appear in the regular edition. . Actual year of publication was 1992. this copy in loose sheets is stamped below the colophon: Uncorrected proof copy followed by the title. £9.50 TOLKIEN J R R. The Devil's Coach-Horses.. Jersey, Edward Brothers, 1925.
[pirated edition 1980's ?) the typography gives this facsimile edition
away since the typeface used Monotype Bembo is a typeface only cut in 1929.
6pp., Hammond / Anderson page 346: C19: re-set from Review of English studies,
1, no. 3 (July 1925) £2.50
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