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Re: LOtR edition on acid-free paper

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From: le...@top.put.com (Louis Epstein)
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Subject: Re: LOtR edition on acid-free paper
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 07:39:54 -0000 (UTC)
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by: Louis Epstein - Wed, 28 Dec 2022 07:39 UTC

Julian Bradfield <jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 2022-12-12, Douglas <*@dmj.users.panix.com> wrote:
>> Is anyone aware of an edition of _Lord of the Rings_ printed on
>> acid-free paper (either a one-volume edition or as three separate
>
> Most quality hardbacks have been acid-free for 20-30 years. My
> impression is that most paperbacks are too, these days, though I no
> longer buy many books.
>
> I'd be very surprised if the current hardbacks are not.
>
> The only way to be sure is to ask the publisher.

Note that the American publishing of Tolkien books is now
in the hands of William Morrow,though Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
printings remain on bookstore shelves until exhausted.

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