1938 Hobbit by Tolkein from Sotheby's

Description

First American edition, first printing, first issue of Tolkien's classic with chapter VII header reading VI and bowing hobbit logo on title page.

• J.R.R. Tolkien (English).
  
• The Hobbit, or There and Back Again.
  
• Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938.
  
• Octavo.
  
• 310 pages.
  
• Includes illustrated map endpapers and 13 illustrations, 4 in color.
  
• Bound in original tan cloth, blue and red stamping, with bowing hobbit in red on the front board with publisher's unrestored jacket, beige spine with blue lettering.
  

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