Dominic Winters Auction 3rd Impression Hobbit

Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Hobbit, 3rd impression, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1942, colour frontispiece and black & white illustrations to text, bookplate to half-title largely removed with paper remains and ownership signature of James Laybourne in a juvenile hand inscribed beneath, old light damp stain to upper blank margin of frontispiece, original decorative green cloth, rubbed, spine slightly darkened and frayed along joints and at ends, a little edge and corner wear, 8vo

Provenance: From the collection of Dr Richard Sadler FRPS (1927-2020).