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Hobbit paperback

19 Jan, 2013 (edited)
2013-1-19 9:13:05 AM UTC

Does any one have information on the 2nd from left Hobbit at the top of the picture, black border with Smaug as the picture?

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbi ... 67.153490354763008&type=1

I don't recognize it, as a UK copy, is it a Canadian edition?

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19 Jan, 2013
2013-1-19 12:46:33 PM UTC
It's the 1979 Unwin Paperbacks edition ('reset third paperback edition') but specially bound for Canadian sale, with a price of $2.75 on the upper cover. I made too brief a note about it under A3s in my bibliography (p. 57).

Wayne
19 Jan, 2013
2013-1-19 12:59:35 PM UTC

Findegil wrote:
It's the 1979 Unwin Paperbacks edition ('reset third paperback edition') but specially bound for Canadian sale, with a price of $2.75 on the upper cover. I made too brief a note about it under A3s in my bibliography (p. 57).

Wayne

Wayne, thanks for that, probably should not have been included in a UK HarperCollins facebook posting on Hobbit paperback editions
22 Feb, 2013
2013-2-22 10:09:57 PM UTC
What's that left black edition at the bottom? Is that 110x178mm?
The other black seems to be 130mm in width.

I'm desperately looking for that black edition on left (if it is 110x178) to fill these:




Unfinished Tales in this edition is already on the way. Now looking for Hobbit & Children of Hurin. Please help
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