Talking collecting, huh? I'm an addict though I'm now more selective than I used to be. I have:
The Hobbit Collecter's Edition (50th Anniversary gold leatherette box and covers;
LoTR Collectors Edition;
Ballantine Gold Box Hobbit and LoTR;
Hobbit, 1st Ed. 4th Printing (the last with the original riddle game);
Box Set, LoTR hardcover, 2nd Edition 9th Printing;
1st reprint Folio Society LoTR;
Simarillion, 1st US;
Unfinished Tales, 1st US;
HoME 1-12 hardcovers (US), all 1st Ed., mostly 1st printings;
Atlas of Middle Earth (hardcover);
Pictures by Tolkien, 1st US;
Tolkien, Artist and Illustrator (hardcover);
The Road Goes Ever On, 1st US;
Tolkien Reader;
The Jewel of Arwen (Marion Zimmer Bradley);
Vinyar Tengwar (miscellaneous);
Sindarin Lexicon (Tolkien Society);
The Alphabet of Rumil and Early Noldorin Fragments (Parma Eldalamberon XIII);
Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference;
Annotated Hobbit (hardback); and
Various copies of LoTR and The Hobbit and a few softcover HoME volumes.
Sick, huh?
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