Tolkien and his US copyright
THERE was a 1954-55 first edition set of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books in a Sotheby’s sale of July 8 that sold at £6500 to a collector – all three volumes impressions in slightly frayed jackets, one of them with a tape repair, showing a little browning and spotting.
However, as those jackets, like that of The Hobbit of 1937 (a defective example of which was seen o…