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Christopher Tolkien: Books
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Christopher Tolkien is 82 years old and not making any promotional appearances to sign books. The publishers, Harper Collins in the UK and Houghton Mifflin in the US, have been using the signed bookplates for promotional purposes and the scarcity of these signed bookplates has meant the collector’s market for these books has developed very quickly.
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Approximately 200 to Harper Collins - Initially only signed by Christopher Tolkien, some were later signed by Alan Lee and other people present at events held to promote the release of the book. These book plates were inserted into copies of both the Trade Edition and the Deluxe Edition, but the relative proportions are unknown.
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The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two (HoMe Vol 2) , by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin, 1984, Houghton Mifflin 1986. Again, the page numbers in the index of the paperback published by Ballantine Books do not match the text. There are quite a few words and phrases in the text. Abbreviated: LT2.
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Such scholarly work of Tolkien's as has appeared in book form. Tolkien in his own lifetime produced only the Middle English Vocabulary and the editions of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Ancrene Wisse. The others were edited by Christopher Tolkien or other former students. The book of Essays in Memoriam contains only one piece by Tolkien but this seems a suitable place to list it. Songs for Philologists strictly speaking is not a work of scholarship, but it is certainly of that flavor. This is the category it comes closest to fitting; since only about 15 copies are in existence it hardly matters where it is listed. It contains poems by Tolkien and colleagues in Old, Middle, and Modern English, Icelandic, and Latin, plus the only existing poem in Gothic (by Tolkien).
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One copy, featuring a publishers’ bookplate signed by Christopher Tolkien and Lee, has sold for $390. A UK deluxe edition... featuring a bookplate signed by Tolkien and Lee, was offered on AbeBooks, and was sold for $750 from a bookseller in Kansas. The deluxe edition has been published in the UK but the North American version is not scheduled for release until May 16.
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Morgoth's Ring: the Later Silmarillion, Part One (HoMe Vol X), by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, HarperCollins 1993, Houghton Mifflin 1993. This has a color frontispiece of the first page of the Tale of Years in Tolkien's calligraphy, found in both editions. There is relatively little linguistic material in this book but there is a specialized vocabulary for some Christian religious concepts if you are interested. Abbreviated: MR
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