The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
TOLKIEN, J.R.R. (1892-1973)
Published by London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1995
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[Children's Fantasy Adventure] LEATHER-BOUND SIXTH EDITION, First Thus. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 272. With 13 illustrations by the author, including five colour plates. Recently bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, matching cloth over boards, and green endpapers. With the original publisher's dust-jacket bound in at rear, including flaps and spine. A crisp, clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Fine. Seldom has any book been so widely read and loved as this classic tale. Its hero, Bilbo Baggins, has taken his place among the ranks of the immortals: Alice, Pooh, Toad. Tolkien's Middle-Earth is a vast mine of treasures and knowledge, its roots delving deep into folklore, mythology and language. 'The Hobbit' is an ideal introduction to this richly imagined world, which was more fully and complexly realised in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Silmarillion'. Seller Inventory # 64627
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Title: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Publisher: London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1995
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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The hobbit, or, There and back again
Published by
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997
ISBN 10: 0395873460
ISBN 13: 9780395873465
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Hardcover
Seller: Shasta Library Foundation, Redding, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Illustrated by Alan Lee. (illustrator). Green boards with gilt dragon at bottom of front cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine is rounded. Corners are sharp. Binding is tight. Moisture damage and wavy pages at bottom. IColored Illustrated plates. 2 Maps.304 p. 7.5 x 9.77 x 1 inch. 2.50 lb. Seller Inventory # 040819
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again ; Illustrated by the Author
Published by
Houghton Mifflin Company N.D., Boston
ISBN 10: 0395177111
ISBN 13: 9780395177112
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Hardcover
Seller: Black's Fine Books & Manuscripts, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. pp. 317, [2]. Square 8vo. Bound in full textured green "leatherette" blocked in gilt, and red with like lettering to the spine; marbled edges, green endpapers. Illustatted with full-page colour plates by Tolkien, and various in-text illustrations. Neat ink name to the margin of the ffep, else, exceptionally well-preserved; fine and housed in fine like slipcase with title appearing in black on right panel over original illustrated bright-yellow paper pastedown. A lovely copy. Seller Inventory # 7374
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Published by
The Folio Society, London, 2002
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Black's Fine Books & Manuscripts, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. pp. [1-7], 8-245. Small 8vo. Bound in full vegetable parchment blocked with a design by Francis Mosley, gilt lettering to the spine; map endpapers. Striking full-page, and in-text black-and-white illustrations throughout. Exceptionally well-preserved; fine and housed in fine burgundy slipcase. As new. Seller Inventory # 7373
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The Hobbit : or, There and back again ; Farmer Giles of Ham ; Smith of Wootton Major ; Roverandom ; The adventures of Tom Bombadil : and other verses from The Red Book
Seller: BiblioFile, Cadole, FLINT, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 5 MATCHING TOLKIEN VOLUMES - AS NEW IN AS NEW COMPLETE DUST JACKETS - 1st Listed : This edition was published to mark the 75th anniversary of the first publication, includes foreword by Christopher Tolkien. Beautiful copy, As new in an As new complete dust jacket. Unread, free of inscription. Verso shows This Edition 2011, with figure 19 beneath it. p.xix [ ii map ], 314, endpaper maps. 2nd listing : This edition reprints the text first published in 1949, together with original illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Scull, Christina [editor]; Hammond, Wayne G. [editor]; Data from Verso to title page - ISBN : 9780007542932, Published by HarperCollins in 2014, with figure 11 beneath it. Beautiful copy, As new in an As new complete dust jacket. Unread, free of inscription. p.225, to include notes, colour endpaper illustrations. 3rd Listing : Extended Edition Published in 2015 with figure 5 beneath the data taken from the title page verso.ISBN : 9780007557288. Illustrations by Paula Baynes to include the dust jacket. Beautiful copy, As new in an As new complete dust jacket. Unread, free of inscription. Flieger, Verlyn 1933- [editor] p.x, 209 [i],[iv] adv, [i]. 4th Listing : This edition is edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond, whose introduction shows how the story is related to Tolkien's later works 'The Hobbit', The Silmariillion, and his Letters from Father Christmas. It includes all five illustrations by Tolkien himself. Published HarperCollins in 2013, with figure11 beneath, data taken from the verso of the title page. ISBN :9780007523283 Beautiful copy, As new in an As new complete dust jacket. Unread, free of inscription.p.192 ; 5th Listing : First published by George Allen & Unwin, 1962. This special edition has been expanded for the first time to include earlier versions of some of Tolkien's poems, a fragment of a prose story with Tom Bombadil, and comprehensive notes by the editors, Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. Beautiful copy, As new in an As new complete dust jacket. Unread, free of inscription. ISBN: 9780007557271. 296 pages : illustrations. A SUPERB GROUP OF TOLKIENS WORKS MATCHING IN SIZE AND IN FANTASTIC CONDITION. Seller Inventory # 032532
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967, 1967
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
[Fantasy Adventure] THIRD EDITION, third impression thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.317 [3]. With illustrations by the author, including colour plate as frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth blocked in dark blue, with illustrated maps to endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at 20s. Heavy toning and spotting to edges, otherwise internally clean. Jacket a little toned to spine, otherwise exceptionally crisp. Very good. Seldom has any book been so widely read and loved as this classic tale. Its hero, Bilbo Baggins, has taken his place among the ranks of the immortals: Alice, Pooh, Toad. Tolkien's Middle-Earth is a vast mine of treasures and knowledge, its roots delving deep into folklore, mythology and language. 'The Hobbit' is an ideal introduction to this richly imagined world, which was more fully and complexly realised in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Silmarillion'. Seller Inventory # 70882
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