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Author:Henry N. Beard as Harvard Lampoon
Co-authors:Douglas C. Kenney
Title:Bored Of The Rings
Publisher:  Signet
Country:USA
Date:
Format:Paperback
Genre:Travel, Poetry, Horror
Cat#:Y5588
Total Editions:8
First Published:  1969
Rating:1.0  Rate
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Henry N. Beard - Bored Of The Rings - Signet - Paperback - USA (1969)

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23skidoo
26th Feb 2023
 The 1993 edition credits the actual authors on the title page (though still as "Harvard Lampoon" on the cover). To keep the editions together, I'm going to suggest the author credit be changed to "Various Authors" with Beard and Kenney credited as co-authors, with Harvard Lampoon as the pen name.
 
 
David Whiteley
18th Aug 2020
 16th edition added with a price of $1.50.
Print No. string from 16 - 23.
Cat # W7054.


mod edit: image moved to Signet W7054
 
 
ppint.
28th Jul 2020
 bodston: your copy is the eighteenth signet/nal printing, given by the lowest number remaining in the printing history number line.

isbn 0-451-12654-8
cat# AJ2654
barcode number 07116200195 12654
 
 
Bodston SUBS
28th Jul 2020
 My copy (images #2345029 & #2345026) takes the printings up to 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Cat# AJ2654 and a cover price of $1.95
UK price sticker (New English Library logo) £1.50


mod edit: images moved to Signet AJ2654
 
 
ppint.
24th Nov 2017
 Rated 1/10
the concept was a good one, arguably; at least, the initial idea - and the opening passage, as it were - are funny, in their own, horrible and horrific way. almost poetic.


but the execution of the rest - and by far the greater part - is woefully poor. it presents the reader with an inadequate travelogue pretty much bereft of ideas, no further vignettes of incidents riffing off climactic scenes and/or perhaps overpowerfully-penned vistas of the original, and it fails to tell a story that makes sense even in its own, twisted terms: overall, it is what it implicitly (and falsely) accuses its inspiration of being - "bored of the rings" is an over-extended single gag, and - worst of all - it is itself a bore.

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ppint.
24th Nov 2017
 "bored of the rings"
a parody of j. r. r. tolkien's
"the lord of the rings"
by henry n. beard and douglas c. kenney
of
the harvard lampoon
(S) (s in circle logo)
a signet book from
new american library
times mirror

copyright © 1969 by the harvard lampoon

first printing, september, 1969

cat# Y5588
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 (11 being the lowest number left in number-string = it is the 11th printing)
no printing date given
160pp. including titles, indicia, table of contents, mock foreword, mock prologue, etc.
cover art by michael k. frith
b+w map by william s. donnell
b+w illumination p.81 by peter w. johnson
cover price $1.25
uk 60p (nel porticoed door-logoed tall oval sticker)

9th through 11th printings by number-string share cat# Y5588 and therefore cover price of $1.25
1st through 8th printings share cat# N4002 and therefore cover price $1.00

two editions/printings of the stated first printing share merkin-printed covers;
refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed:
no priority established nor liable to be.

various printings of this travesty were distributed in the yuk-of-gb-and-norn-iron at least, initially by or via (it was on their catalogue) n.e.l. bearing a small oval 25 or 30p price sticker, and progressively higher;
later distribution was by or via howard & wyndham's paperback arm, again with a uk price stickered, and maybe later printed upon the back of the card covers.
i think i recall holocaust^W happy hamlyn paperbacks also distributing this - but i no longer have the locuses, paperback parlours, or hamlyn paperbacks' monthly release sheets, to be certain of this.
 

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