The Book of Lost Tales, Part I 2002 Paperback Edition impressions 20–23+

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Cover illustration by John Howe

Publisher

HarperCollins

Format

Paperback

Edition first published

2002

Market

Trade

Design series

Black Rectangle Paperbacks

ISBN-10

0-261-10222-2

ISBN-13

978-0-261-10222-4

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record 67200

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The Book of Lost Tales: Part One

Impressions

Whether this edition's impressions begin again at 1 or carry on from the edition before it under this ISBN is not known.

Open Questions

QUESTION: Is your impression later than 23?

QUESTION: Does this edition begin its numbering again? velmeran reads a second and a fourth impression naming 2002, at £9.99 and printed by Clays, which can only belong here if it does — the 1991 edition's own second is a different book, dated 1991. Neither of his is recorded anywhere yet.

QUESTION: Velmeran gives a second and a fourth impression under this number — Clays, GBP 9.99 each — and does not say which edition they belong to. They sat on the 1991 group with a twentieth, twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh until August 2026, when the five were split between the 2002 edition and the 2015 one. That split reads the numbering as one continuing sequence, which is what separates the twentieth from the twenty-sixth; and on that reading a second and a fourth cannot be the 2002 edition’s at all, the 1994 edition being known to a fifth. On the reading that the 2002 edition begins again, which is what every other History of Middle-earth 2002 edition does, they can be. The other three are safe under either reading and stay where they are. These two are not, so they are kept here rather than asserted of any edition. — of this ISBN

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