The Hobbit new Translation

Sounds like a great project, and I really hope it is successful. Best of luck!

Thank you very much!

Ordered one of these hobbits a few days ago. I asked the seller if its still the first printing as i have heard rumours it might be sold out, but no reply as of yet. I will post pictures when the book arrives.

I just received a copy yesterday. Here's an image of the dust jacket (three scans stitched together). The international packaging was very good. The book itself is very nicely bound with the Tolkien map and drawing of the treasure map on the endpapers and black and white illustrations in the text. (I'm not a bookbinding expert by any means, but the book feels and looks solid.)

Congrats Taivo.

Has the book been reprinted or is it still in first printing?

That I can't tell you. I'm not an expert on how to tell, but there isn't one of those lists of numbers where the lowest number is the printing that I could find. There is the notation "2 ediziun" at the top of the copyright page and midway down the page is the comment, "La translaziun sursilvana sebasa sin l'ediziun da HarperCollins Publishers Ltd digl onn 2007, ina reediziun dil cudisch ch'ei cumparida per engles sut il tetel "The Hobbit" l'emprema gada igl onn 1995". My phone translated this as: "The Sursilvan translation was published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd in 2007, a reissue of the codex that appeared in English under the title "The Hobbit" in 1995". So that "2 ediziun" note may refer to this 2024 edition as opposed to that 2007 edition rather than a printing. Other than that note, there is no other indication that I could find about printing number.

In my own collecting, I've been happy to find any copy of a particular translation and not worried about what printing it was. There may be clues about what printing it is, but other than that little line of numbers or an overt comment on the copyright page I don't know what to look for. Sorry.

Thank You for the information Taivo. Yes - it looks like it has been reprinted. I was curious whether they would reprint if the first printing of 1000 copies sold out.

The first printing has "1 ediziun" at the top of the copyright page.

Thank you for clarifying that, Remy. I heard about it from one of the people in the Tolkien Society in my Zoom group on Tolkien's birthday in November. He was from Switzerland and when he heard I collected translations he put the link in the chat. I thought I had recorded his name, but I couldn't locate it today.