THE HOBBIT Or There And Back Again

TOLKIEN, J.R.R.

Published by George Allen & Unwin, London, 1946

About this Item

Fourth impression. Octavo. Publisher's green cloth, lettered and decorated in blue, in the original dustwrapper of Tolkien's own design. Top edge green. Map endpapers, with Thror's Map to the front endpapers and the Map of Wilderland to the rear, colour frontispiece and eight black and white illustrations. A very near fine copy, very bright, upper hinge only just starting but not unsound, in a very good dustwrapper, wear with short closed tears and a little loss to the spine end; this unhelpfully mended with adhesive tape by a former owner, now removed but with remaining residue. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Housed is a bespoke slipcase. The fourth impression of The Hobbit, printed in an edition of 4,000 copies in July 1946, but not bound until the autumn of 1947 and published on 18th November.

Seller Inventory # 880

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE HOBBIT Or There And Back Again
• Publisher: George Allen & Unwin, London
• Publication Date: 1946
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • J.R.R. Tolkien