FINALLY! I Found a RARE TOLKIEN SIGNED Limited Edition
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2023
- The Signed & Limited Editions of The Children of Húrin and The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrun, are a work of pure craftsmanship even Fëanor would be proud of. After a long search for Sigurd & Gudrun, I finally have the matching set. Here's a look into these two stunning books...
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From watching again and not in a rush I can see just how passionate you are about these books. It gives me inspiration to work really hard and save up enough to get these.
Wow thank you so much for your kind words 🙂
I find this passion for the books infectious. And that is what makes me truly feel joy at his/ your fortune.
Just need to get the Unwin Hyman Super Deluxe Hobbit and the George Allen & Unwin SuperDeluxe Silmarillion to complete the set, the first 100 copies of both books were signed by Christopher Tolkien.
Wow! That’s quite something … I can only dream at this point 😅
@@brewingbooks I only have the unsigned copies of the Super Deluxe Hobbit and Silmarillion.😭
Still some great acquisitions there 🙂 I wish you the best in your quest. I can understand how these searches for particular books can be both draining and exhilarating at the same time …
@@Trotter_Tolkien hello Trotter!
I have always appreciated the sheer craftsmanship of leather bound, handmade books like these. But never had the chance to own one. Looking at the prices of these new deluxe editions - while quite fair by overall book standards, they simply do not measure up to the asking price.
This being said I do feel like the regular hardback of many a tolkien books are quite nice.
So while the ultra expensive deluxe editions do not carry the gravitas and level of sophistication I long for as vessels containing the monumental content within, the regular editons do carry enough heft and competence to justify their pricetags. And it does making reading tolkiens works satisfying on more of a budget. Especially for a new reader like me.
You certainly make an excellent point. I have found that the standard hardback editions of the last two decades or so have maintained a standard in quality (much better than the evolution of the recent deluxe editions)
Your channel has inspired me, man. I recently have finished reading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings for the first time in my life and I’m about half way through The Silmarillion. Thank you so much for your videos.
How many pages do you read a day?
@@yeshuacaceres9722I’m not sure to be honest. But I try and read about 1 hour to 2 hours after work each day.
I try to read 20-30pages a day 🙂
Thank you for your kind words and I’m glad you found something of worth in these videos 🙂
Holy crap this is amazing dude
Cheers!
Speaking of rare editions, last year I saw at Oxfam near Turnham Green station in London the second revised edition of The Lord of the Rings for 200 quid. Someone must have bought it because when I went there in February the LOTR was gone.
That’s a great find! It’s amazing how some of these books just show up at times 😄
I am happy that you are happy with your treasured TOLKIEN books . Be grateful that your eyes are healthy to enjoy them .
I have a lot of signed STEPHEN KING books and I had to sell my whole "Dark Tower" series that he wrote , because I am losing my eyesight because of glocoma . Books were a big part of my life and it breaks my heart . I can only hope and pray that God has a special place for me after this is all over with .
So sorry about this, and thank you for your words. I wish you all the best 👍
Absolutely gorgeous books! Congratulations on now owning both of them! 🎉
Many thanks! 😇
Excellent quality Limited Edition books and commentary on their quality of construction, however their quality of construction would make for a sturdy and hardwearing travel companion of each book. It is a great pity that the these types of superior constructed books are not used as books and used instead as ornaments to be opened once or twice or kept on on display. Leather will, unless it is in a controlled atmosphere or possibly treated with cream, crinkle and tighten over time so better in my humble opinion to use the books and enjoy them before that happens.
Great points 🙂
The construction is pretty much identical to the first prints of the corresponding deluxe editions they were based on. The leather is coated - it doesn't need treating and in fact can't absorb anything you might put on it. It is unlikely to suffer the same aging as an aniline leather which needs maintenance.
Cool!!!!
Cheers 🙂
Top notch production! I love those rounded corners and the hubbed spine as well! I wish Harper Collins had done the same for TLOTR and the Hobbit too. Not that l dislike the recent deluxe illustrated by the author ones, but here you can easily see the difference. The only editions that come close to these two are the Easton Press leather bound volumes. Great video!
Well said 🙂👍
There is no comparison between the quality of these and the recent editions, sadly. Although the spine hubs on these are still only decorative (like Easton Press) , rather than functional they are solid and wonderfully pronounced. The recent editions just have a thin card former for the spine and the hubs are hollow voids, pushed in from behind. It is the worst kind of fakery pretending to be a quality binding. I think of the recent editions as being like disneyland; attractions that look good from a distance, but don't hold up to close inspection. I can't say enough good things about these 2007/2009 super deluxe editions, though. I really wish HC would revisit this format -- though I wonder what price point they could hit to do so (maybe £500).
I have both of these and I always felt the production quality was much higher on CoH. Clays did a reasonable job with S&G, but LEGO really knocked it out of the park with CoH. I think the two-colour foil really lifted CoH and the stamping on S&G was just a bit bland in comparison. That said, CoH has fake marbled end-papers and the S&G has genuine ones, so in that respect is a little better. These are far the best Tolkien books HarperCollins has ever produced - and S&G wasn't badly priced at release (introductory price of £250 later increased to £350). The last couple of hundred copies were sold for £200 by the Folio Society after HarperCollins had failed to find a market for them. CoH started at £350 (no early-bird discount), but they regularly had 40% discounts to try and shift them (and it took more than a decade to sell all 500).
I doubt they will ever do anything like this again, given how hard they were to sell - I imagine the overall profit on the sub-par author-illustrated deluxe editions is far greater as they can shift many thousands of units without even having to care about them being decent quality. Times change, and these 2007/2009 editions should be cherished. I personally think they are better than the '22 Folio LotR in almost all measurable respects.
One day I shall acquire them
Why not? 🙂 Time, patience and dedication 👍
What wonderful findings! You deserve them 😊
Congrats! They looks amazing :)
Thanks! They really are 🙂
Wow they looks so gorgeous 😍 Congrats for the new book!
Many thanks 🙂
Congratulations! These look beautiful! I'm so happy for you! 😊
Many thanks! 🙂
I’m up reading late , I enjoyed leaf by niggle yesterday and it was trippy at the end I loved it , but now I am reading Smith of Wootton Major and I’m a little bitter that this book has not been made into a movie !! Hopefully they get around to it at some point would be amazing !!
Nice find man.
Thanks!
Envy the Green-Eyed Monster is rearing its head!!!
Arghhh! 😅
I just hope that one day you manage to land a sweet deal on some first edition lord of the rings! I'd love to see you do a video on those!
currently reading for the first time "The legend of sigurd and gudrun"
Awesome! What are your thoughts about it so far?
@@brewingbooks still in page 30 something, just the introduction and its brilliant as always haha, the combo of JRR words and Christopher's.. you can't beat that
I never understood why S&G got a super deluxe edition. Should have The Silmarillion, or maybe The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings
That was my initial reaction the first time this was announced, and I honestly wish I had an answer why they opted to go specifically for this title. If only they had done this for The Fall of Arthur. Not that Sigurd and Gudrun aren’t worthy of it, but still … 🙂
The Slimarillion and Hobbit already have super deluxe editions. The obvious book that does not is The Lord of the Rings, fingers crossed it will get the super deluxe treatment at some point.
It was just timing I think. S&G was the next new (not previously published) title to be published after CoH. I assume if they had sold better they would have continued to produce similar editions of other works. I'm glad they went with S&G - it is probably the best post-CoH posthumously published work. I actually think it is a better work than CoH in truth (though CoH is a better edition).
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Indeed 😄
Are there certain edition you ready regularly and some you don't so they don't develop any wear? Also are you looking forward to the new Hobbit illustrated by they author editions?
I try to utilizing all books/editions on a regular basis - even if it’s just opening the books up and shuffling through the pages. And yes I’m very much excited about the new Hobbit 😃 Let’s hope the production quality is up to standard this time …
@@brewingbooks That's awesome. I really enjoy your videos and marveling at your collection. You've even inspired me to start my own all be it a bit scaled down.
@@Scotty393 Awesome! Thanks so much and best of luck with your collecting. All collections have to begin from somewhere, no matter how small 🙂
@@brewingbooks Thank you. I'm having a lot of trouble trying to find a good copy of Beowulf and Sigurd and Gudrun along with a massive internal struggle on whether or not to try and collect the deluxe slipcase editions.
I’ve owned that signed edition of The Children of Hurin since it was first released, but can’t recall how much it cost at the time… maybe $500-$800 sounds familiar. Any idea what the present market value is?
I’ve owned CoH for a while now so I’m not exactly sure if the current market value. It’s quite a nice audience (even for Tolkien readers in general), but I’ve seen some go for €1,500 upwards easily.
What do you mean by "signed onto the actual page rather than a book plate? Both are just pages in the book, no?
Bookplates are usually individual sheets that are signed by an author and then glued onto the front page of a book. In this case, editor and illustrator signed on the actual page/book rather than an intermediary such as a bookplate - which makes it more significant imo 🙂
@@brewingbooks Aha - I understand the difference now. Thanks. Yeah, having the author sign the actual book means he actually touched it!
@@brewingbooks That's not correct. The pages were signed and then tipped in. Particularly on S&G there have been issues where the book has been opened too wide and this can cause the tipped in signature plate to delaminate. It is glued along the gutter to the page in front. Neither CT or AL actually held these books. They are basically full-page bookplates. If you look at your S&G, you will see you can't open that page fully (please don't try!) - there is a 3-5mm strip that won't open. It would have been better if they had glued it onto a stub, but for whatever reason that isn't what they did.
@@-johnny-deep- Brewing Books is incorrect. The signature pages were tipped in after being signed.
@@stu356 Interesting. I hope Brewing Books will reply and confirm one way or the other. I will note that if those signature pages really are tipped in separately, they seem to line up perfectly with the three edges of the other book pages! How is that done?
I am here for help !! I’m in the silmarillion again and I passed over something before that made no sense and I didn’t want to waste time on it . … but now I need answer … of the rings of power and the third age !! It states that “and so indeed the one the seven and the nine were destroyed and than goes on to say that Sauron was returning in Mirkwood !!???I have read it over and over and gotten so angry . Why is it written this way !! After the rings were destroyed I know Sauron doesn’t return in Mirkwood … it’s bothering me .. help would be great thanks . Am I missing something in the way it’s written ..
Hi 🙂 I’ve rechecked the paragraph you are referring to. It’s the way the sentences are grammatically structured. In the opening of this particular paragraph it states - in the present tense - that the rings are destroyed. But then it continued - in the past tense - how before the rings were destroyed Sauron re-emerged in Mirkwood before the events of the War of the Ring.
It’s an interesting paragraph and certainly a good catch from your part though it’s quite clear that it’s meant retrospectively 🙂
@@brewingbooks thank you for clearing that one up for me cheers.
Will you read through them?
Always 🙂
Wow! You lucky boy! How much did these cost?
They certainly weren’t cheap but not as extraordinarily high as one might think 😅
My ultimate goal would be a first edition edition of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings 😮 The Holy Grail of Tolkien books
That would indeed be the fulfilling of a quest 🙂
Do not ever give me your address, because I will break in.
I have my pet Smaug lying in wait for such an eventuality 😁