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Author:	J. R. R. Tolkien
Title:	Poems And Stories
Publisher:	George Allen And Unwin Ltd
Country:	UK
Date:	1980
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry
ISBN-10:	0048231746
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
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This deluxe edition comes in a box and the front illustration of the tree is by Tolkien and is in gold leaf.

I have a couple of other Deluxe boxed editions of Tolkien's work in my collection and have to say that this one is (for me) a slight oddity as the other are printed on very light paper, and beautifully finished. Whereas this is printed on a much heavier paper, almost a vellum. Still very deluxe but for me not quite as good quality.

Some of the stories in this book have previously been published, the earliest of which was in 1949, hence the original publication year. However, this is the first time they have been published with this content and in this form.

Pages: 343
Size (book): 225mm X 145mm

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ppint. 30th Aug 2019		this is the first edition of "poems and stories" by j. r. r. tolkien. this book is copyright ("©") 1980 because it was first published in 1980 (occasionally books are copyrighted the year before they are published: this happens most often when they're published in january of a year) the various dates of the first publication of the various contents does not affect the date of the first or subsequent publications of a book, other than in the sense that a books contents are normally published, and therefore copyrighted, either before or at the same time as the book is published; it is normal - although not universally done - to give the original copyright dates of the various contents if previously published, and to note the copyright owners or controllers, or the books or magazines in which they were first published if they were contained in another publication. no edition of this particular book as a whole was published earlier than 1980; this is the first edition. (its contents are close to those of ballantine books' "the tolkien reader" (1966), but that collection or omnibus does not include "farmer giles of ham" - which was first published as a book in 1949, and is the only part of "poems and stories" that was published in 1949 - and "farmer giles of ham" (1949) (c. 80pp.) is not an edition of "poems and stories" (1980) (c. 344pp.).)

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