The Hobbit
$8,000 · 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, light lean to binding, cloth lightly worn at extremities and lightly soiled. Foxing and tanning to pages, former owner gift inscription and partial
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