The Hobbit
$12,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First American edition, first state with a bowing hobbit on the title page, and Chapter VII mistakenly titles Chapter VI. Bound in publisher's original buff cloth stamped in blue and red; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light marking to bottom of spine, spine ends and corners worn, spine toned. Pages toned, bookplate removal to first blank sheet, several hinges
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