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In Bulgarian "izba" is an underground cellar, often used for storing wine. Мухоморка (not myxomopka, but muchomorkka ) has two types: red and white but is still the mushroom most often leading hobbit-like fellows who can't resist on mushrooms to a hospital, sometimes even worse. I don't know how those little hobbitses deal with that kind of mushrooms, but I believe they're more crafted in that matter...
 

Those red ones are only mildly toxic. One mushroom cannot kill someone, just make him sick. They have some halucinogenic properties. I once heard that if you cook them for very long time, you destroy toxins. But I think that you also destroy those halucinogens. But I am not sure about this, I just heard it from someone.


However these are very toxic. They cause liver failure. They can be even white like this:
 
Barliman said:
I picked up this set at a local auction for $56. Amazingly perfect condition, still in shrink wrap.View attachment 12524
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As it's HarperCollins, it must be an edition from after 1990.
HarperCollins itself was formed by a merger in 1989. They then acquired Unwin Hyman in 1990. I can follow this "progress" in the imprints under which my first eleven HoMe paperback volumes were published: exactly after the half-way way-point, vol. 6 "The Return of the Shadow", it switches from Unwin Paperbacks of Unwin Hyman to Grafton, an imprint of HarperCollins, which then published vols. 7 and 8. This apparently because the hardcover editions had still been published earlier under Unwin Hyman. With paperback vol. 9 "Sauron Defeated" of 1993, HarperCollins finally appears as original publisher (the hardcover edition having appeared a year earlier).
 
This is a 2020 printing. I'd expect it to be the "corrected" edition, but I don't know, not having seen it myself.
 
Squint-eyed Southerner said:
This is a 2020 printing. I'd expect it to be the "corrected" edition, but I don't know, not having seen it myself.
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From the copyright page
"...based on the reset published in 2014 which is revised version of the reset edition published in 2204."

The books are cloth, or an excellent imitation. The slip case look like cardboard to me.
No fold out maps.
 
I should post this here. These are the Unfinished Tales I have. This paperback I purchased off a book rack by a checkout counter of a grocery store sometime in the 80's. It was quite random and reawakened me to Middle Earth after letting it fade in the late 70’s.


It's with my collection of books I still have stashed at 'the house'
(my parent's house, now my little brother's house)

Here in Australia, I have Elora's paperback from 1998...


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Maybe they're finally going to use the newer "corrected" edition. If it turns out to be one of their occasional "Limited Editions", expect to shell out a month's salary.
 
lol i also tend to lose my slip covers.. i actually find them quite annoying so i take them off when im reading the books.. and then when im done with the book.. they are just gone..
they should really do something about that.
 
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