The Hobbit by Tolkien, harry abrams (7 results)

Large Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Thus. First thus. Very good in good jacket. Some loss from Smaug overlays and titles on clear acetate jacket (common with this edition), several tears and a couple small chips to jacket corners, top edge of endpapers lightly foxed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1976 Large Hardcover. 220 pp. Color maps and illustrations from the animated film, including several fold-outs. Clear acetate jacket with Smaug and white titles super-imposed over pictorial boards. The classic prelude to The Lord of the Rings. "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a 'little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves.' He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, 'looking for someone to share in an adventure,' Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit's doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure. The dwarves' goal is to return to their ancestral home in the Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug. Along the way, they and their reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile elves, ravening wolves--and, most perilous of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a riddling contest. It is from this life-or-death game in the dark that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, would eventually spring. Though The Hobbit is lighter in tone than the trilogy that follows, it has, like Bilbo Baggins himself, unexpected iron at its core. Don't be fooled by its fairy-tale demeanor; this is very much a story for adults, though older children will enjoy it, too. By the time Bilbo returns to his comfortable hobbit-hole, he is a different person altogether, well primed for the bigger adventures to come--and so is the reader.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1977, First Thus, Second printing (with "reprinted by arrangement" in text copyright line), Film Tie-in, Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket: Fine Pictorial boards, text block and edges are clean, unmarked and tightly bound. Corners are square; upper front corner looks to be slightly rubbed. There are a few spots of very slight edge wear on the board edges. There is a crease on the FFEP (see pictures). This crease is the only issue we can see in the interior. Printed acetate second state dust jacket is whole, bright and has intense colour. The only blemish on the jacket is a slightly faded sentence on the inner front flap (see flap picture).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Rankin, Arthur, Jr.; Bass, Jules (illustrator). First Edition First Printing. A stunningly illustrated edition of Tolkien's classic fantasy, with the 1966 version of the text brought to life with images from the film drawn by Arthur Rankin, Jr. & Jules Bass. Nearly square hardcover (11.75" x 11.00") has brightly colored paper over boards, enhanced with a clear acetate overlay/dust jacket that provides the title/author information to front, along with brightly colored dragon. In 220 pages, lavishly illustrated throughout. Condition is VG+: exceptionally clean & bright, but with very faint damp stain to both ends of spine & slight rippling in one area of back cover. Does not impact interior in any way. Very slightly bumped corners. Pages white & completely unmarked, colors intense, binding strong & straight. The clear DJ is truly Fine: clear & crisp with no tears or opacity. A beauty that belongs in every fan's collection! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Sorry: book is too large & heavy for expedited domestic or international shipping without preapproval of extra shipping (at least double per USPS rates).

Large Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First thus. Near fine in very good jacket. Minimal loss from front jacket titles and rear Smaug overlay, a couple small pieces of clear tape on jacket edges. 1976 Large Hardcover. 220 pp. Color maps and illustrations from the animated film, including several fold-outs. Clear acetate jacket with Smaug and white titles super-imposed over pictorial boards. The classic prelude to The Lord of the Rings. "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a 'little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves.' He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, 'looking for someone to share in an adventure,' Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit's doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure. The dwarves' goal is to return to their ancestral home in the Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug. Along the way, they and their reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile elves, ravening wolves--and, most perilous of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a riddling contest. It is from this life-or-death game in the dark that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, would eventually spring. Though The Hobbit is lighter in tone than the trilogy that follows, it has, like Bilbo Baggins himself, unexpected iron at its core. Don't be fooled by its fairy-tale demeanor; this is very much a story for adults, though older children will enjoy it, too. By the time Bilbo returns to his comfortable hobbit-hole, he is a different person altogether, well primed for the bigger adventures to come--and so is the reader.

Condition: Like New. Like new with the transparent dragon dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Oblong quarto. Illustrations by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass. Sight toning on the spine thus near fine in a very good printed acetate dust jacket with a tear on the rear spine fold and rear flap fold. An illustrated edition of *The Hobbit* with art from the 1977 animated film.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Hobbit: or There and Back Again; text by J. R. R. Tolkien; illustrations from the film by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass; Harry N. Abrams In., Publishers, New York, 1977. First edition. From the blurb Here is the first fully illustrated, deluxe edition of the complete original text of Tolkien's great classic, precursor to the trilogy Lord of the Rings. This character-by-character, scene-by-scene rendition will surely do for The Hobbit what Tenniel did for Alice in Wonderland, what Arthur Rackham did for Wind in the Willows. The illustrations and cinematic sequence drawings based on the animated film by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass give visual life to Bilbo Baggins, the dwarves, Gandalf, Smaug and all the rest. Tolkien himself would certainly have been delighted. The Hobbit is known to millions of readers around the world. But never before, even in the author's own illustrated versions of the fairy tale, has every quaint and endearing character and each suspenseful scene in the saga been attempted and accompanied by every word Tolkien finally committed to print in 1937. This full-fledged picture-book version with some 230 lively paintings and drawings will enchant young and old. The world of Middle Earth, with its spooky Misty Mountains and turbulent Running River comes fully alive. This book is in near-fine condition in the near-fine printed dust jacket that was issued with the book. There is a double page fold out of the cast of characters. A wonderful copy of a very scarce and important book on the wonderful world according to J. R. R, Tolkien.