Hanson's Christmas Auction

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit, first American edition, second state [publisher's logo on title, 'Chapter VI instead of VII on p. 118], Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. Octavo, publisher's cloth, map endpapers, half-title, colour frontispiece, 310pp., lacking colour plate to face p. 118, all other plates present as called for, contents generally clean & bright, occasional creasing & tears including to some of the plates, one plate detached, cloth with general discolouration and splitting to joints, wear to corners, sold with all faults

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings. The Two Towers, fourth impression, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1956, publisher's red cloth with unclipped third impression dust-jacket, protective mylar cover; The Return of the King, second impression, Unwin, November 1955, red cloth, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 21s with reviews on rear flap), protective mylar cover. Contents very good, clean, bright, folding maps at rear of each volume are very well-preserved, slight cockling to gutters of each book, endpapers with some pale offsetting/spotting, neat owner inscription dated 1956 to ffep of each book, dust-jackets good & bright with some light surface wear around edges, some toning & pale staining to spines, very slight loss to top joint of Return, cloth boards discoloured/stained & slightly bowed, perhaps cleaned (2)