Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth 2006 Hardback Edition impressions 1–13+

Publisher

HarperCollins

Format

Hardback

Edition first published

2006

Market

Trade

Design series

Tolkien Watercolour Hardbacks • 2006

ISBN-10

0-261-10215-X

ISBN-13

978-0-261-10215-6

Publication group

HarperCollins Hardback Main Sequence

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Unfinished Tales • publication history

Impressions

NOTE: A copy of the eleventh impression settles that this run is the 2006 edition’s: its copyright page reads “Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2006” and carries 026110215X, and it matches velmeran’s eleventh row for that number in every particular — £25, printed in China by RR Donnelley, set in PostScript Monotype Plantin by Rowland, and with the title and author not foiled. He gives a second eleventh impression printed in Italy by L.E.G.O. with foiled lettering, which is a different stream and is asked about below.

Open Questions

QUESTION: Is your impression later than 13?

QUESTION: Which edition are velmeran's Italy rows? He prints this number at two plants, and a copy of the eleventh impression settles which stream is which: the copies printed in China by RR Donnelley, with the title and author not foiled, are the 2006 edition's — his ninth, tenth, eleventh and thirteenth. Alongside them he has a first, an eleventh and a twelfth printed in Italy by L.E.G.O. with foiled lettering. One impression split between two plants would explain a pair of elevenths; a first and a twelfth in the other stream would not. His first sits on the 1992 edition here, at GBP 18.99, which is a high price for a hardback of 1992 and an ordinary one for the 2000 reset; his Italy twelfth sits on the 2006, beside the China rows rather than with its own kind; his Italy eleventh is recorded nowhere. — of this ISBN

QUESTION: Where does the 2006 edition's run begin? It declares a first impression of 1 and the earliest anyone has seen is a ninth. If the count carries on across the three editions under this number, its first eight are the 1992 and 2000 editions'; if it begins again, they are its own and unrecorded. tolkienbooks.net says the 1992 was never reprinted and the 2000 ran to at least three, which fits either reading. — of this ISBN

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