The Fireside

  The product image for the collector's edition of The Nature of Middle-earth has been revealed. The ISBN is 9780008440572 , and you can pre-order it any time before publication date through the usual avenues for these releases. Some retailers may not have it up yet; so as long as you check one month until publication date, latest, you'll be fine. Here's the official description: This elegant slipcased edition presents for collectors the first ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects. Stamped in gold foil, and printed on heavyweight acid-free paper, it includes a ribbon marker and is housed in a custom-built matching slipcase. It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in 1954–5. What may be less known is that he continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed, right up until the years before his death in 1973. For him, Middle-earth wa...

  In a not-so surprising yet surprising move, House Edition boxed sets of the Harry Potter series are on the way. The reason why it's surprising: - the publisher constantly stated that these House Editions (as in, the format style itself) would be limited....yet, here comes a boxed set. So if one went out of print - here it is again! - there weren't any 'partial' boxed sets, as can happen with Harry Potter (ie, the illustrated editions) - it's not being released the same day as the Deathly Hallows House Editions. If you look at the product photos for the Slytherin hardback one, you'll notice that Philosopher's Stone has SILVER lettering on the dustjacket as opposed to GREEN lettering. Is it a glitch of the rendering? Or, are the first printing(s) of that title feature green lettering? Also, in the renders of the paperback sets, the colours match the hardbacks. As these came out, the opposite colour was used for paperback and hardback. For instance, with Ph...