TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Hobbit or There and Back Again. 13 text illustrations after Tolkien, four in color; endpapers illustrated with maps of the Wilderland and Thror's Map in red. 8vo, publisher's pictorial tan cloth stamped in blue and red, cocked and slightly shaken, head and foot of spine frayed, corners rubbed with minor exposure, one small spot on rear cover; hinges cracked but holding. First American edition, first impression with an illustration of a bowing Hobbit on the title page, the list of illustrations on page [9] mistakenly listing "Thror's Map" first, Chapter VII with "Chapter VI" misprint on page [118], and with final leaf blank and without half-title as issued. Hammond and Anderson A3bi. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1938