Laura Stanifer, Wade Center Archivist, shares a signed first edition of THE HOBBIT by J.R.R. Tolkien, and discusses how it differs from later editions.

The Marion E. Wade Center presents a series of 3-5 minute video vignettes called “Wonders of the Wade.” In this series we invite Wade Center staff, Wheaton College faculty, and visiting scholars to present a favorite item of theirs at the Wade Center. Each episode features a museum piece, a first edition, an unpublished manuscript, or a book from one of the Wade authors’ personal libraries, often with notes and markings in them. New episodes of “Wonders of the Wade” are published on the first and third Friday of every month.