The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Yesterday's Muse, Inc. presents ... The Hobbit, or There and Back Again ISBN:0883657465 Author:Tolkien, J.R.R.; Rankin, Arthur; Bass, Jules Publisher:Galahad Books Release Date:1989 Seller Category:-- Qty Available:1 Condition:Used: Good Sku: 2330176 Notes: Reissue of this uncommon edition, which incorporates artwork from the animated film, as well as two-panel Thror's and Wilderland maps reproduced in color from Tolkien's original illustrations. Very good in good jacket. Two 2 inch closed jacket tears on rear panel, shallow 1 inch chip along bottom jacket edge, a few light smudges to boards. Jacket presentable under fresh mylar. 1989 Large Hardcover. 220 pp. Color maps and illustrations from the animated film. The classic prelude to The Lord of the Rings. "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a 'little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves.' He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning,
- Publisher: BBS Publishing Corporation
- Year: 1989
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9780883657461
- Condition: Good
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