The Hobbit

by Tolkien, J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel)

$27,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · In dust jacket

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938 Illustrated by the author, with four color and nine black-and-white illustrations. First American edition, first printing, first state, with 1938 and bowing hobbit to title page, incorrect map placement on list of illustrations, and Chapter VII mistakenly titled Chapter VI on p. 118. Publisher s tan cloth, with front board and spine lettered in blue, bowing hobbit in red to front board, and pictorial map endpapers printed in red and white; in its original pictorial dust jacket printed primarily in white, blue, and red, with Tolkien s Hobbiton illustration to front panel, Smaug illustration to rear panel, and $2.50 price to front flap. Near fine book, with light spotting to spine, top left corner of rear board slightly bumped, an area of light staining to front free endpaper, and bookplate of Ralph D. Hartman to verso of front free endpaper; very good unclipped dust jacket, with discrete professional restoration to spine ends and panels (tissue reinforcement to edges and verso of folds, color added to edges of panels and spine ends), edges with light toning, soiling to spine, panels exceptionally clean and bright. Overall, a splendid copy of one of the most iconic and popular books of the 20th century. Originally published in 1937 in a small initial print run of 1500 copies, The Hobbit is a fantasy children s novel that precedes Tolkien s 1954-1955 epic trilogy The Lord of the Rings. It tells the story of Bilbo Baggins, a well-do-to hob

• Publisher: New York: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Year: 1938
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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