TOLKIEN, J. R. R.

£37,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Hobbit or There and Back Again. First edition, first impression; the introduction of Middle-earth to the general public, here finely bound by Bayntun and with the original cloth bound in. The first impression was published on 21 September 1937 in a run of 1,500 copies and was sold out by December. The second impression included colour illustrations and was published on 25 January 1938.

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