I'm a slipcase guy - a lot of you know that. I have gone to great lengths to obtain all of CD's custom cases, however that pales into insignificance with Alec's most recent acquisition. Back in April 2017, I posted pictures of a set of TLOTR that Alec had acquired from a lady that used to work as a secretary to Allen and Unwin. Unfortunately the set was missing its slipcase due to an unfortunate 'chewing' incident with the ladies young son...
Amazingly, Alec has managed to obtain ANOTHER set, this time complete with the slipcase. Now Tolkien only ever signed THREE of the sets and Alec now has 2 of them. As only a handful of the sets (signed and unsigned) have survived over the years, this may be the ONLY complete signed set with the slipcase.
Truly a thing of beauty...