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Originally Posted by Rizla
That will work for a short / medium length book for a debut author. Not for a long work. Even Tolkien had to split his book into three, and he'd already published The Hobbit.
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From what I've read, that was due to the practicalities of publishing, not the fact that the publisher didn't want to publish it as a single volume. There was a severe paper shortage in 1950s Britain, and not enough of the high-quality thin paper was available that would have been necessary for a single-volume edition.