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The famed Ace editions, now collectors ' items There was a time when no paperback publisher would publish fantasy.

It was believed that there was no public for fantasy and that it wouldn't sell.

Then Wollheim changed everything when he brought out an unauthorized paperback edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in three volumes — the first mass-market paperback edition of Tolkien's epic.

In a 2006 interview, his daughter Elizabeth said: