{"id":21564,"date":"2022-12-05T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=21564"},"modified":"2022-12-04T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T00:17:07","slug":"library-addition-deluxe-edition-of-the-lord-of-the-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=21564","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Deluxe Edition of The Lord of the Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I rarely make impulses purchases, but I saw this listed from a small press publisher’s regular email at $250, and when I went to the product page to get a better look at it, there was a small notice declaring that fulfillment would be done by Amazon. Well, then, why not just buy it from them?<\/p>\n

Taking a look on the Amazon page<\/a> for the book, they were selling it at $150<\/i>, so I went ahead and bought it. <\/p>\n

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings Illustrated Deluxe Edition<\/b><\/a>. William Morrow, 2021 (stated; actually published October 2022). First edition hardback thus, a Fine copy in a Fine slipcase (with a cutout for the eye of Sauron on the book itself), sans dust jacket, as issued, with oversized folding maps of Middle Earth and Gondor\/Mordor, cardstock reprint of The King’s Letter (from Aragon to Samwise) in silver tengwar on one side with a en English translation on the other, “Leaves from the Book of Mazarbul” in a waxpaper envelope, and the rear shrinkwraped book description laid in. A sturdy, gilt-edged omnibus edition containing all three volumes, with Tolkien’s own artwork and Middle Earth language calligraphy as full page color plates. <\/p>\n

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Even the box it ships to you is way too cool to throw away:<\/p>\n

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And the map pattern continues all the way around the box.<\/p>\n

It’s a very attractive production, and if you’re interested in it, Amazon has now lowered the price to $140.01<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I rarely make impulses purchases, but I saw this listed from a small press publisher’s regular email at $250, and when I went to the product page to get a better look at it, there was a small notice declaring that fulfillment would be done by Amazon. Well, then, why not just buy it from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137],"tags":[1973,1983,434,1397,1216],"class_list":["post-21564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-j-r-r-tolkien","tag-limited-editions","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21564"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21591,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21564\/revisions\/21591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}