Design Series

A work-in-progress that groups covers by common design.

Signature Paperbacks 2022/2023/2024/2025/2026

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Photographic Paperbacks 2020

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Special Collector’s Editions 2012/2013/2022/2024/2026

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Author Illustrated Hardbacks 2021/2022/2023

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Author Illustrated De Luxe Hardbacks 2021/2022/2023

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Illustrated De Luxe Hardbacks 2020/2021

Cover image for silmarillion Cover image for unfinished-tales

Knotwork De Luxe Hardbacks 2025

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Quarter-Bound De Luxe Hardbacks

Cover image for hobbit Cover image for lord-of-the-rings Cover image for silmarillion Cover image for unfinished-tales Cover image for nature-of-middle-earth Cover image for children-of-hurin Cover image for beren-and-luthien Cover image for fall-of-gondolin Cover image for fall-of-numenor Cover image for perilous-realm Cover image for father-christmas Cover image for bovadium-fragments Cover image for beowulf Cover image for sir-gawain Cover image for sigurd-and-gudrun Cover image for fall-of-arthur Cover image for kullervo Cover image for battle-of-maldon Cover image for tolkien-letters Cover image for biography Cover image for history-of-the-hobbit

Alan Lee Hardbacks 2007/2017/2018/2020/2022

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Black Rectangle Paperbacks

Cover image for book-of-lost-tales-1 Cover image for book-of-lost-tales-2 Cover image for lays-of-beleriand Cover image for shaping-of-middle-earth Cover image for lost-road Cover image for return-of-the-shadow Cover image for treason-of-isengard Cover image for war-of-the-ring Cover image for sauron-defeated Cover image for morgoths-ring Cover image for war-of-the-jewels Cover image for peoples-of-middle-earth Cover image for home-index Cover image for end-of-the-third-age Cover image for tree-and-leaf Cover image for sir-gawain Cover image for finn-and-hengest Cover image for monsters-and-the-critics Cover image for tolkien-letters Cover image for road-to-middle-earth Cover image for readers-companion Cover image for history-of-the-hobbit Cover image for history-of-the-hobbit

Sun and Mountains A-Format Paperbacks

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Sun and Mountains B-Format Paperbacks

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White on Black A-Format Paperbacks

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Silver on Black A-Format Paperbacks 2002

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Coloured Runic Border Hardbacks

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John Howe Runic Arch

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John Howe Gold Runic Border

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Unicorn Roger Garland Paperbacks 1982/1983/1985/1986

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Roger Garland Beige Rectangle Paperbacks

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Collins Modern Classics

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Unwin 1974 Paperbacks 1974

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Unwin 1976 Paperbacks 1976

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Unwin 1979 Paperbacks

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Unwin Baynes Short Faery Stories Hardbacks 1962/1975/1976

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Unwin Baynes Short Faery Stories Paperbacks 1983

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Garland Short Faery Stories 1990

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HarperCollins Baynes Short Faery Stories 2014/2015

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