The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again

Description

Hardback. Green leatherette over boards, gilt and red decorations on spine and front cover in a matching slipcase with pasted-on paper label. Green marbled edges and olive green endpapers. Tight back. Sewn signatures. Green and yellow endbands. 24x18x3.5 cm. Houghton Mifflin. Boston. no date but 1973. 317 numbered pages plus tipped-in glossy illustrations. Two page map of “Wilderland” in green and black, two page “Thror’s Map” in green and black, seven full page green and black illustrations, one partial page green and black illustration, green and black title page illustration, five full color illustrations. Tolkein, J.R.R. Near fine in a near fine slipcase. Spotted ink smudge on page 235. 1966 copyright. 12th printing of this edition (number line reads “H 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12”). Green and black illustrations are titled “The Trolls” (p.48), “The Mountain-path” (p.67), “The Misty Mountains lookin gWest from the Eyrie towards Goblins Gate” (half page, p. 121) “Beorn’s Hall” (p. 130), “The ElvenKing’s Gate” (p. 184), “Lake Town” (p. 202), “The Front Gate” (p. 215), and “The Hall at Bag-End, Residence of B. Baggins Esquire” (p. 315). Color illustrations are titled “The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the Water”, “Rivendell”, [not titled], “Bilbo comes to the Huts of the Raft-elves”, and “Conversation with Smaug”. This copy is a beautiful placeholder for the Tolkein collector seeking a first edition, and it also makes an attractive gift copy for the Tolkein fan. weight: 2.2 lb.