If you have been looking to establish your collection of Tolkien, this is a superb opportunity. This group, in nearly pristine condition, includes many works now long out of print by the Easton Press. While standards like The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings rarely go out of print, many of the other volumes below have been printed but once, and are now long out of stock.
Several of the volumes now fetch $400- 700 each on the rare market, and that is when they are able to be located. If you were to spend the time sorting the volumes down on eBay or secondhand markets, you could easily spend $9,000.00. I added up the actual sold values for each volume from eBay's sold history, and it would be somewhere between $8,500 and $9,500 total for the collection. This present group being offered at nearly 40% off those figures.
Included in the grouping are the following
Section One. The Core Tolkien Works Collection.
1. The Hobbit
2. The Lord of the Rings
3. The Silmarillion
4. Unfinished Tales
5. The Children of Húrin
6. Beren and Lúthien
7. The Fall of Gondolin
8. The Fall of Númenor
9. The Nature of Middle Earth
10. Tales from the Perilous Realm
11. Tales from the Dangerous Realm
12. The History of The Hobbit
Section Two. The History of Middle-Earth.
13. The Book of Lost Tales Part One
14.The Book of Lost Tales Part Two
15. The Lays of Beleriand
16. The Shaping of Middle Earth
17. The Lost Road and Other Writings
18. Morgoth’s Ring
19. The War of the Jewels
20. The Peoples of Middle Earth
21. Sauron Defeated
22. The Return of the Shadow
23. The Treason of Isengard
24. The War of the Ring
25. The End of the Third Age
Section Three. Tolkien Scholarship and Art
26. Beowulf
27. The Story of Kullervo
28. The Lay of Aotrou & Itroun
29. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl & Sir Orfeo
30. Tolkien: A Biography (Humphrey Carpenter)
31. The Atlas of Middle Earth (Karen Wynn Fonstad)
32. The Maps of Middle-earth
33. The Art of The Lord of the Rings
34. Middle Earth: Visions of a Modern Myth
35. The World of Tolkien
36. Tales from the Perilous Realm (large edition)
37. The Complete Guide to Middle Earth
The volumes in generally fine to "as new" condition. Two volumes have very minor foil transfer from the volume they were shelved next two. Two volumes have surface indentations from being stacked with another volume. This should relax over time. One volume has a light smudge to forege gilding. And one volume has some light rippling to the leather, perhaps from improper adhesion. The Hobbit has a very minor surface crease at the hinge from reading. The vast majority of the volumes were intentionally left as new and for all intents and purposes are unread. The previous owner stored them out of the original plastic, which is what is recommended by Easton. Being stored in the plastic runs the risk of condensation.
