{"id":8265,"date":"2020-10-12T08:08:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T07:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=8265"},"modified":"2026-04-20T05:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:25:28","slug":"wollheims-pirated-lotr-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2020\/10\/12\/wollheims-pirated-lotr-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Wollheim&#8217;s pirated LOTR edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Grognardia<\/em> surveys <a href=\"http:\/\/grognardia.blogspot.com\/2020\/09\/the-covers-of-lord-of-rings.html\">The Covers of <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/a> in the U.S. paperbacks. From the perspective of the UK I don&#8217;t recognise any of these, but they probably mean a lot to American readers. But they&#8217;re interesting, as I&#8217;d never seen the covers for Donald A. Wollheim&#8217;s pirated Ace Books paperbacks. The American paperback covers get noticeably worse over the years, with the Barbara Remington \/ Ballantine covers being the best in a sort of <em>Moomintroll<\/em>-ish way &mdash; though rather puzzling as to what they actually show&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/ballan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/ballan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"233\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grognardia surveys The Covers of The Lord of the Rings in the U.S. paperbacks. From the perspective of the UK I don&#8217;t recognise any of these, but they probably mean a lot to American readers. But they&#8217;re interesting, as I&#8217;d never seen the covers for Donald A. Wollheim&#8217;s pirated Ace Books paperbacks. The American paperback [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19058,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265\/revisions\/19058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}