Kevin's Watch

doing some online window shopping at www.abebooks.com and came across these.

3. Stephens, Reed (pseudonym of Stephen R Donaldson)
The Man Who Tried to Get Away (follows The Man Who Killed His Brother and The Man Who Risked His Partner )( by the author of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever Book One: Lord Foul's Bane; Illearth War and The Power That Preserves )
London: Collins, 1990, 1st hardcover and Only hardcover Edition, Hard Cover. First Edition. ........ Fine hardcover in a Fine price clipped dustjacket, the Ballantine trade paperback is rare, this is very rare, the rarest Donaldson??, Bookseller Inventory #101176
Price: US$ 350.00 (Convert Currency)

2. LORD FOUL'S BANE
Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1998. Full-Leather, Gilded Page Ends. Very Fine As New/No Jacket as Published. Collector's Edition. Privately Printed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. True 22kt gold accents deeply inlaid upon raised "hubbed" spine with Smyth -sewn pages and printed on rich and durable archival-quality acid free paper which will not yellow with age. It features premium end sheets and premium heavy duty boards with a sewn in satin page marker. There are few books of greater quality. Bookseller Inventory #4863
Price: US$ 108.00

1. Stephen R Donaldson
Lord Foul's Bane
Holt, 1977. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. First Edition. Signed by Author. ISBN:003022771X. The book club is the true first for this title. DJ is price clipped, has wear to the bottom of the spine and small wear spots all over the front and back of the DJ. Bookseller Inventory #000953
Price: US$ 55.00

from going through this and other sites, i've formed a hypothesis that even though the book club edition was printed first, the first trade edition is more rare. it's either that or the booksellers in general don't know what it's worth.

any or all of these can be mailed to...

ET3 Frost, D. A.
c/o Postmaster
Great Lakes, IL 60088

i'm not picky about the type of wrapping.

*snoogins*

Nice nice.. i couldnt believe my luck when i picked up a couple of the first trilogy book club hardbacks at a local charity shop.. 60p each.. Illearth War and TPTP [got a double of that] . Awesome.. although i was slightly miffed someone beat me to a nice early hardcover of Dune I also bought the DelRey hardbacks of 2nd trilogy off ebay shipped from states and got a couple of the UK HarperCollins HC's.. Mad isnt it. Although i'd probably swap them all for a complete set of the HarperCollins hardbacks as i like the size and their covers... plus those are the ones i first read [in paperback format]...

My word. Look at this..


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Btw these are the HarperCollins ones i really want/like

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From browsing Ebay it seems the Australian editions are the same.... i love those covers. Same goes for MN/DoR etc

Oh.
My.
God.

1. Tolkien JRR
The Lord of the Rings
1956-1954-1955. First Editions, The Fellowship of the Ring Fifth Impression (February 1956), The Two Towers and The Return of the King First Impressions Tiny ink-mark to lower cover of volume II, just a little bumping to one or two edges and corners, very slight browning and marking to end-papers, but an exceptionally nice set in very slightly marked and nicked, but essentially clean and bright dust-wrappers. A superb copy The Fellowship of the Ring bears a tipped-in slip inscribed by Tolkien to Ernest Rasdall (a book collector), the other two volumes are both signed by the author on the front free end-paper. Bookseller Inventory #lkers45042
Price: US$ 71079.75


2. Tolkien JRR
The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again
1955. Colour frontspiece, black-and-white illustrations, map end-papers "Seventh Impression" Offsetting to spine from the spine panel of the dust-wrapper, otherwise a very nice copy in dust-wrapper designed by the author which has the slightest browning to the upper panel. Signed by the author on the fly-leaf The verso of the title-page lists four impressions and reprints including the first edition, then the "Second Edition (Fifth Impression)", "Sixth Impression (Second Edition)" and finally "Seventh Impression". The dust-wrapper, however, states that this is the "Eighth Impression" and there is no reason to suppose that the book and its dust-wrapper have not been together since publication. The publishers may simply not have had enough dust-wrappers printed for the seventh impression. Bookseller Inventory #lkelo75049
Price: US$ 11846.63

The thing is... I know a guy who has first edition first impression copies of all four, signed on the front free end-paper.
Can you imagine what they are worth? Of course, he's not parting with them for the world, so imagine what they'll be worth in another 20 years time!

far out thats amazing!!!

That's pretty cool. I used to work for www.alibris.com cataloging books. I was in charge of the high values, but I'm not sure if I ever touched one worth $70k. I did catalog a complete 2nd edition set of LOTR, tho.

Okay, but, um, the bird. The hardcover of LFB on eBay has a bird. Where's the bird from?

Its one of those illearth mutated animals.. see the geen deformity on its head ?

I peeked (entirely unintentional, I assure you). The wife got me a signed 1st of WGW.

She's a keeper!!