Dominic Winter - Hobbit for Auction - Thu, 17th Jun 2021
28 May, 2021
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2021-5-28 6:25:17 PM UTC
Lot 549 (Children's & Illustrated Books, Private Press & Fine Bindings, Modern First Editions, Thu, 17th Jun 2021)
Estimate £700 - £1,000
Sold for £3600 plus a 20% buyers premium £4320 in total.
https://www.dominicwinter.co.uk/Auctio ... False&sd=0&pp=48&pn=1&g=1
Estimate £700 - £1,000
Sold for £3600 plus a 20% buyers premium £4320 in total.
Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit or There and Back Again, 1st edition, 2nd impression, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1937, colour frontispiece, colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, map endpapers (slightly toned), original green pictorial cloth, spine a little toned and rubbed at ends, slight lean, 8vo
The second impression, published in the same year as the first, and the first with the colour plates.
https://www.dominicwinter.co.uk/Auctio ... False&sd=0&pp=48&pn=1&g=1
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