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New Arrivals: First American Edition of Tolkien’s THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (1954). In the correct first printing dust jacket with the fold-out map of Middle Earth intact.

First volume of what is likely the most significant trilogy of books written in the last century. The first printing in the US was bound from British sheets, only 1,500 copies. A harder book than you might expect in the correct dust jacket, as points changed between the first 10 or so printings, and people are overly-fond of swapping dust jackets from later printings onto first printing books.

Tsk tsk…

GETTING BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS

It’s just like:

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Someone I know is making moves. 

"Newton's Flaming Laser Sword"

Did The Past Really Happen?

Pretty sure my posts are only being followed by porn bots at this point. I used to get excited when I’d see a like on a post - if you’re into porn maybe this could be great - but for me it’s sadder to get attention from a porn-bot than no attention at all.

Brushing a pig

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Jessie M. King, illustrations for The High History of the Holy Graal, 1903.

calling all the booklrs

if you are a book blog please reblog this

my dash is superduper slow and I need more awesome blogs to follow. if you reblog this then I can check your blog out and probably follow you too (and if you wanna check out my blog that’d be cool too)