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Rateliff, John D.
The History of the Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien Part: One Mr Baggins [with] Part Two: Return to Bag-End.
Publisher: Harper Collins Publisher, London;
Date of Publication: 2007
Stock Code: 14500
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp., xxxix, 467; vi 902, continuous pagination. Contains a total of 12 plates of various drawings of scenes from ‘The Hobbit’ spread between the two volumes. Publisher’s black cloth with title in bronze to spines in unclipped, pictorial dust-jackets bearing the image of Smaug the Dragon and the Misty Mountains (vol 1) and the Misty Mountains by night (vol 2). Both fine copies. A study of Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’; the work contains several old drafts, lost drawings and a plethora of literary analysis published here for the first time. As well as a scholar of Tolkien, Rateliff is also the author behind several tabletop role playing game modules, including the Lord of the Rings TTRPG and several Dungeons and Dragons Adventure books. £250.00