The Tolkien Collector Back Issues
The tolkien collector in general contains information about new, reissued, and forthcoming books by and about Tolkien. Many issues also contain feature articles, as noted below.
1 Introductory issue, 12 pp., provisionally titled J.R.R. Tolkien Collecting and Bibliography Special Interest Group Magazine
2 ‘Italian Tolkien Criticism’ by Patricia Reynolds; ‘A Midwest Tolkien Tour’ by S. Gary Hunnewell
3 ‘A Collector’s Tale’ by S. Gary Hunnewell; ‘Dutch Tolkien Illustrators’ by René van Rossenberg; ‘The Ballantine Hobbit’ by Richard E. Blackwelder
4 ‘The Dutch One-Volume Lord of the Rings’ by Christina Scull and Patrick Vandenhole; ‘Tolkien in Bulgaria’ by Christina Scull
5 ‘Fair Dealing’ by Wayne G. Hammond; ‘Tolkien and Linguaphone’ by René van Rossenberg; ‘Works by and about Tolkien in Czech and Slovak’ by Karel Makovsky
6 ‘The Silmarillion in Russian’ by Christina Scull; ‘A Corrigenda to The Lord of the Rings’ by David Bratman
7 ‘The J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar 1994’ by Wayne G. Hammond; ‘The Lord of the Rings in Japanese’ by Christina Scull; ‘A Dutch Stephen Oliver’ by René van Rossenberg
8 ‘Where’s Tolkien?’ by Wayne G. Hammond; ‘The Revised German Translation of The Lord of the Rings’ by ‘SST’; ‘Farmer Giles of Ham, Smith of Wootton Major, and Mr. Bliss in Japan’ by Christina Scull
9 ‘Translating Tolkien into Hebrew’ by Yuval Kfir
10 ‘Too Many Books — and Never Enough’ by Wayne G. Hammond
11 ‘Âke Ohlmarks, Swedish Translator’ by Johan Söderberg
12 ‘The 1996 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar’ by Christina Scull; ‘Dutch Editions of Tolkien’s Works’ by Johan Vanhecke
13 ‘When the Collecting Has to Stop!’ by Christina Scull
14 All-news issue; no feature article
15 ‘Signatures, Labels, and Values’ by Christina Scull; ‘Corrigenda to J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator’ by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
16 ‘Tolkien Dissertations and Theses in English’ by Daniel Timmons
17 ‘J.R.R. Tolkien in France’ by Jean-Marc Bouilly
18 ‘Tolkien Boom in Poland’ by Agniesczka Sylwanowicz; ‘Caring for Your Tolkien Collection’ by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond
19 All-news issue (abbreviated, 12 pp.); no feature article
20 ‘Identifying First Edition Printings of the Houghton Mifflin Lord of the Rings, Part I’ by Steven M. Frisby
21 ‘Identifying First Edition Printings of the Houghton Mifflin Lord of the Rings, Part II’ by Steven M. Frisby; ‘The Tolkien Collector and the Internet’ by Wayne G. Hammond
22 ‘Identifying First Edition Printings of the Houghton Mifflin Lord of the Rings, Part III’ by Steven M. Frisby
23 ‘Sophisticated Tolkien, or The Integrity of the Book’ by Christina Scull
24 ‘Is the Internet Collectible?’ by Christina Scull
25 All-news issue; no feature article
26 All-news issue; no feature article
27 Catching up after a long hiatus, especially with The Lord of the Rings; ‘A Mad Hobby’ by ‘Garm’
28 More catching up, especially with books about Tolkien and new translations of The Lord of the Rings; no feature article
29 Still more catching up; no feature article
30 ‘Identifying First and Second Edition Printings of the Houghton Mifflin Hobbit’ by Steven M. Frisby
31 ‘The “Father Christmas” Letters’ by Christina Scull
32 ‘A Tolkien Classification System’ by David Bratman
Also available (at single issue price): Index to nos. 1–20