TOLKIEN J R R The Hobbit or There and Back Again

Sale 2247 - Lot 466

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TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. 4 color and 9 black-and-white illustrations by Tolkien; maps on endpapers. 8vo, tan cloth stamped in blue and red; dust jacket, unusually good but for mild toning to spine and only the slightest rubbing, two short clean tears, both with cellotape repairs on verso; publisher's compliments slip laid in. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938

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bright copy of the first american edition, third state, of tolkien's most famous work. With the publishers device on the title page, the maps in the proper order as per the list of Illustrations (Wilderland at front; Thror's Map at rear); it also has the half-title as called for, and has the corrected heading "Chapter VII" on page 118.