Collecting Tolkien - Tolkien Books

Books is obviously THE main area of Tolkien collecting.

It is a very big area and I've split it into 2 sections a; this entry about books written by Tolkien, including those edited and published after his death, b; books published about Tolkien and his books.

I don't specifically collect the books but I do have a few.

Please see the Tolkien Guides for links to Tolkien book collecting resources.

These are the books in my collection.

Total Items: 304

Lord of the Rings

Series (40 sets, 152 books)

Hardback - Unwin white eye cover First Edition, boxed set (F 10th, T 7th, R 6th) (x3)

Hardback - Unwin grey eye cover Second Edition (F 1st, T 1st, R 1st) (x3)

Hardback - Unwin grey eye cover Second Edition (F 3rd, T 4th, R 4th) (x3)

Hardback - Unwin colour eye cover Second Edition (F, T, R) (x3)

Hardback - Unwin pastel tolkien cover Second Edition (F 18th, T 17th, R 17th) (x3)

Hardback - US Mifflin abstract covers Second Edition, boxed set (x3)

Hardback - Harper black cover boxed millennium 1999 (x7)

Hardback - Harper movie cover centenary 2002 (x3)

Hardback - Harper black eye cover 2002 (x3)

Paperback - US Ace colour cover 1965 (x3)

Paperback - US Ballantine colour baynes cover 1965 (x3)

Paperback - US Ballantine colour tolkien cover 1973 (x3)

Paperback - Unwin pastel tolkien cover boxed 1974 (x3)

Paperback - Unwin colour eye cover 1976 (x3)
Paperback - Unwin The Tolkien Collection boxed 1976 (x3 +H +2others)

Paperback - US Ballantine white eye cover boxed 1978 (x3)

Paperback - Unwin colour small eye cover 1979 (x3)

Paperback - Unwin colour baynes cover boxed 1981 (x3)

Paperback - Unwin colour baynes cover 1981 (x3)

Paperback - US Ballantine colour scenes cover boxed 1981 (x3 +H)

Paperback - Unwin colour garland cover boxed 1986 (x3)

Paperback - US Hougton white/grey cover boxed 1987 (x3)

Paperback - US Ballantine colour scenes cover boxed 1988 (x3 +H)

Paperback - Harper colour howe cover 1991 (x3)

Paperback - Harper colour howe cover boxed 1991 (x3)

Paperback - Harper colour eye cover 1991 (x3)

Paperback - French Presses silver pink cover "le seigneur des anneaux" 1991 (x3)

Paperback - French Presses castles cover "le seigneur des anneaux" 1993 (x3)

Paperback - Harper colour eye cover boxed 1997 (x3 +H)

Paperback - Harper colour eye cover 1997 (x3)

Paperback - Harper colour taylor cover boxed 1999 (x3)

Paperback - Harper black cover 1999 (x3 +S +U)

Paperback - Harper voyager classic blue cover 2001 (x3)

Paperback - Harper black movie cover boxed 2001 (x7)

Paperback - Harper movie fellowship cover 2001 (x3) signed Billy Boyd

Paperback - Collins colour howe cover boxed 2001 (x3 +H)

Paperback - US Ballantine movie characters cover boxed 2001 (x3 +H)

Paperback - German Klett Cotta green covers 2002 (x3)

Paperback - Harper white cover 50th 2005 (x3)

Paperback - Harper black cover boxed 2012 (x7)

Incomplete

Hardback - Unwin white eye cover First Edition (F 5th, no dusk jacket) (x1)

Hardback - Unwin white eye cover First Edition (R 2nd, no dusk jacket) (x1)

Hardback - Unwin grey eye cover Second Edition (F 6th) (x1)

Hardback - Swedish AWG purple square 1989 (T, R) (x2 +S +U)

Paperback - Unwin colour nasmith cover 1990 (R) (x1)

Paperback - US Book Club beards cover 1995 (F) (x1)

Paperback - Harper movie cover 2002 (F) (x1)

Single volumes (30 books)

Hardback - BCA baynes cover 1971

Hardback - BCA baynes cover 1976

Hardback - BCA baynes cover 1988

Hardback - Unwin garland cover 1988

Hardback - Harper lee cover illustrated 1991

Hardback - Harper Howe with edging cover 1991

Hardback - US Houghton SFBC romance cover 1994

Hardback - Harper black cover slipcase limited 1997

Hardback - Harper grey movie argonath cover 2002

Hardback - Harper red cover slipcase limited 50th 2004

Hardback - US Houghton suede grey cover 2004

Hardback - Harper blue lee cover plastic slipcase 2005

Paperback - Unwin baynes small letters cover 1968 1st

Paperback - Unwin baynes small letters cover 1968 3rd

Paperback - Unwin baynes small letters cover 1971

Paperback - Unwin baynes very large letters cover 1972

Paperback - Unwin baynes large letters cover 1975

Paperback - Unwin bakshi cover 1979

Paperback - Unwin baynes large letters Unwin logo cover 1979

Paperback - Unicorn garland unicorn logo cover 1986

Paperback - Unwin garland white border cover 1987

Paperback - Grafton garland full page cover 1991

Paperback - Harper howe cover big title 1993

Paperback - Harper howe with edging cover 1995

Paperback - Harper howe cover 1995

Paperback - Harper green black riders cover 2001

Paperback - Harper blue movie cover 2002

Paperback - Harper movie black rider cover 2002

Paperback - US Houghton movie black ring cover 2003

Paperback - Harper 50th red cover 2007

Hobbit (48 books +6 in sets)

Hardback - Unwin classic cover 3rd/5th 1970

Hardback - Unwin classic cover 4th/2nd 1979

Hardback - Folio red cover slipcase 2nd impression 1980

Hardback - Harper classic with gold edging 1991

Hardback - Harper lee cover illustrated 1997

Hardback - houghton green slipcase collectors edition 1997

Hardback - Czech Mlada "hobit aneb cesta tam a zase zpátky" 1997

Hardback - Collins cascades smaug hoard cover 1999

Hardback - Harper limited edition black boxed (with cd, map, postcards) 2000

Hardback - Harper green smaug cover 2001

Hardback - Spanish Minotauro "El Hobbit" ilustrado Alan Lee 2002

Hardback - Harper green smaug cover annotated Anderson 2003

Hardback - Harper classic cover slipcase 2007

Hardback - Harper collectors grey forest 2012

Hardback - Harper green bilbo cover illustrated Jemima Catlin 2013

Paperback - Longman's schools 1969
Paperback - Puffin 1969
Paperback - Dutch Pisma "De hobbit" 1970

Paperback - US Balantine white baynes cover 1972

Paperback - Unwin back smaug hoard 1974

Paperback - Unwin pastel tolkien cover 1975

Paperback - Unwin white lake town cover 1975?

Paperback - Unwin smaug hoard cover 1977

Paperback - Unwin brown smaug hoard cover 1979

Paperback - French lp7 "Bilbo le hobbit" 1980

Paperback - Unwin smaug hoard cover 1984

Paperback - Unwin hague cover 50th 1987

Paperback - Unwin hague cover 50th illustrated 1987

Paperback - Unwin hague cover 1988

Paperback - Unwin nasmith cover 1989

Paperback - Harper colour howe cover 1991

Paperback - Harper Graphic Novel (Wenzel) 1991

Paperback - Harper Graphic Novel (Wenzel) individual books 1991 (x3)

Paperback - German dtv "Der Kleenex Hobbit" 1995

Paperback - Harper black cover 1999

Paperback - US Houghton block cover 2001

Paperback - Harper classic cover slipcase 2006

Paperback - Harper bagend door 2012

Paperback - Harper 2 volume splicase 2012 (x2)

Paperback - US Balantine Graphic Novel (Wenzel) 2012

Paperback - Harper movie cover bagend door 2012

Paperback - Harper movie cover mountain gates 2013

Paperback - Harper movie cover smaug gold 2013

Paperback - Harper movie cover frodo kneeling 2014

Leather - US Houghton 2007

Silmarillion (13 books +2 in sets)

Hardback - Unwin classic cover 1977

Hardback - BCA classic cover 1978

Hardback - US Houghton mountains cover 1977

Hardback - BCA howe cover 1994

Hardback - Harper nasmith cover illustrated 1998

Paperback - Unwin classic cover 1979

Paperback - Unwin black boat cover 1984

Paperback - Unwin white boat cover 1988

Paperback - Unwin white boat cover 1989

Paperback - Harper colour howe cover 1991

Paperback - US Balantine silmarils cover 2002

Paperback - German Klett "Das Silmarillion" 2002

Paperback - US Houghton nasmith cover illustrated 2004

History of Middle-Earth (45 books)

Hardback - The Book of Lost Tales I, Unwin 1984

Hardback - The Book of Lost Tales II, Unwin 1984

Hardback - The Lays of Beleriand, Unwin 1991

Hardback - The Shaping of Middle-Earth, Unwin 1991

Hardback - The Lost Road, Unwin 1987

Hardback - The Battle of the Shadow, Unwin 1988

Hardback - Treason of Isengard, Unwin 1989

Hardback - War of the Ring, Unwin 1991

Hardback - Sauron Defeated, Harper 1992

Hardback - Morgoths Ring, Harper 1993

Hardback - The War of the Jewels, Harper 1994

Hardback - The Peoples of Middle-Earth, Harper 1996

Hardback - The History of the Hobbit Part 1 Mr Baggins, Harper 2007

Hardback - The History of the Hobbit Part 2 Return to Bag End, Harper 2007

Hardback - Index, Harper 2016

Paperback - The Book of Lost Tales 1, Unwin 1981

Paperback - Unfinished Tales Unwin 1989

Paperback - The Book of Lost Tales 2, Unwin 1989

Paperback - Unfinished Tales, Harper 1991

Paperback - History of Lord of the Rings Boxed Set, Harper 1998 (x4)

Paperback - US The Histories of Middle-Earth Volume 1-5, Balantine 2003 (x5)

Paperback - The Book of Lost Tales 1, Harper 2002

Paperback - The Book of Lost Tales 2, Harper 2002

Paperback - End of the Third Age, Harper 2002

Paperback - War of the Ring, Harper 2002

Paperback - Return of the Shadow, Harper 2002

Paperback - Treason of Isengard, Harper 2002

Paperback - Peoples of Middle Earth, Harper 2002

Paperback - Morgoths Ring, Harper 2002

Paperback - War of the Jewels, Harper 2002

Paperback - The Peoples of Middle-Earth, Harper 2002

Paperback - The History of the Hobbit Part 1 Mr Baggins, Harper 2002

Paperback - The History of the Hobbit Part 2 Return to Bag End, Harper 2002

Paperback - Index, Harper 2002

Paperback - History of Lord of the Rings Boxed Set, Harper 2002 (x4)

Art (4 books)

Hardback - Pictures, Unwin 1979

Hardback - JRR Tolkien Artist and Illustrator, Harper 1995

Hardback - The Art of the Hobbit, Harper 2011

Hardback - The Art of The Lord of the Rings, Harper 2015

Others (21 books)

Hardback - Farmer Giles of Ham, Unwin 1976

Hardback - Oliphaunt 1989

Hardback - Poems and Stories, Harper 1992

Hardback - Poems by JRR Tolkien boxed set (small), Harper 1993 (x3)

Hardback - Letters from Father Christmas, Collins 1995

Hardback - Tales from the Perilous Realm, Harper 1997

Hardback - Roverandom, Harper 1998

Hardback - The Children of Hurin, Harper 2007

Paperback - Tree and Leaf, Unwin 1972

Paperback - US Smith of Wooton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham, Balantine 1972

Paperback - US The Tolkien Reader, Balantine 1976

Paperback - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo, Unwin 1979

Paperback - Tree and Leaf, Smith of Wooton Major, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Unwin 1979

Paperback - Farmer Giles of Ham, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Unwin 1979

Paperback - The Letters of JRR Tolkien, Unwin 1981

Paperback - Farmer Giles of Ham, Unwin 1991

Paperback - Bilbo's Last Song illustrated by Pauline Baynes, Arrow 1992

Paperback - US Father Christmas Letters, Harper 1993

Paperback - The Children of Hurin, Harper 2008