The Hobbit or There and Back Again
$30,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller
First American edition, earliest issue, with bowing hobbit on title page, frontispiece mounted on stub, lacking half-title as issued , chapter VII numbered VI, maps bound opposite to listing in illustrations, jacket priced 2.50. Illustrations by the author. Color frontispiece and 12 plates 3 in color . 310 pp. First leaf is a blank. 1 vols. 8vo. Original greenish-tan cloth with hobbit bowing stamped in red and title in blue, map endpapers. Very good, very
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