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1929 – Wonder Tales from Fairy Isles (Goblin Feet) – 1st Edition – Hard Cover – Longmans, Green and Co

Even though this was an English based publisher, ChatGPT gives the following evidence on it being distributed in America: The strongest piece of context is the publisher. Longmans, Green and Co. had a New York office, and bibliographic history for the firm notes that into the 1930s it published some books simultaneously, or nearly so,

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1938 – The Hobbit – 1st Edition – Hardcover in Dust-Jacket – Houghton Mifflin Company

See here for details in Hobbit First Editions: https://www.tolkienbooks.us/hob/us/hc/the-hobbit-1938

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1948 – An Inheritance of Poetry (Goblin Feet, Hobbit: Riddles in the Dark, Road Goes Ever On, Lullaby for Bilbo Baggins) – 1st Edition – Hardcover in Dust-Jacket – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

 Goblin Feet, Hobbit excerpt: Riddles, Song: Road Goes Ever on, Poem: Lullaby for Bilbo Baggins.

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1959 – Anthology of Children’s Literature (Riddles in the Dark) – 1st Tolkien Content Edition [3rd Revised] – Hard Cover with Dustjacket – Houghton Mifflin Company

This is technically the 3rd edition of the anthology but it is the first one with Tolkien content.

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1966 – Diplomat (Tolkien on Tolkien) – 1st Edition – Magazine – The Saturday Evening Post

From https://tolkienbooks.net/php/details2.php?id=574 Contains an autobiographical article: Tolkien on Tolkien‘. See page 39. This was compiled by mixing extracts from an autobiographical statement prepared by Tolkien in 1955 and from a letter to Nancy Smith sent in January 1964. The complete statement from 1955 was published in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien together with three paragraphs taken from the

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1966 – The Golden Treasury of Children’s Literature (The Hobbit First Chapter) – 1st Edition – Hard Cover with Dustjacket – Western Publishing

This book took and combined selected chapters from the earlier The Golden Treasury of Children’s Literature series and combined them into an omnibus edition.

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1967– The Poetry of J.R.R. Tolkien (The Root of the Boot) – 1st Edition – Booklet – The White Rhinoceros Press

From https://tolkienbooks.net/php/details2.php?id=102: George Burke Johnston’s essay reprints Tolkien’s poem The Root of the Boot from Songs for the Philologists. The essay is a slightly revised version of that published in The Tolkien Papers. See pp.10-11. The booklet was printed and privately circulated by the author – it was not available for sale. A “specially printed, specially bound copy of

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1971 – Attacks of Taste (Paragraph from Tolkien) – 1st Edition – Hard Cover – Gotham Book Mart

From https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Attacks_of_Taste: Attacks of Taste is a book which contains a collection of statements by authors about the books they loved as teenagers. The book was compiled by Evelyn B. Byrne and Otto M. Penzler. It was published in New York by Gotham Book Mart in 1971. The book was limited to 500 copies signed

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1975 – A Tolkien Compass (Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings) – 1st Edition – Hardcover with Dustjacket – Open Court Publishing Company

Contains an essay titled “Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings”. It has in the first three editions of the book but removed from later editions. Tolkien originally wrote this guide to assist translators of The Lord of the Rings. He was reacting to some early foreign editions (specifically the first Dutch

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2003 – Tolkien and the Great War (Poems, Extracts from Letters/Notebooks/Diaries) – 1st Edition – Hardcover with Dustjacket – Houghton Mifflin Company

Includes numerous quotes from unpublished correspondence, diaries and notebooks. Also quotes (mostly only in part) from numerous pieces of early poetry, some of which are previously unpublished or hard to find. From https://tolkienlibrary.com/booksabouttolkien/tandthegreatwar/description.php: This dense but informative study addresses the long-standing controversy over how J.R.R. tolkien’s WWI experience influenced his literary creations. A London journalist,

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2022 – J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript  (Manuscripts and Artwork) – 1st Edition – Hardcover – Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University

From : https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/J.R.R._Tolkien:_The_Art_of_the_Manuscript J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript is an exhibition catalogue which accompanies an 2022 exhibition of the same name. The exhibition was held between 19 August and 23 December 2022, organized collaboratively by Marquette University’s Raynor Memorial Libraries and the Haggerty Museum of Art, curated by Tolkien Archivist William M. Fliss

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