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Tolkien, J. R. R..
The Hobbit or There and Back Again.
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London;
Date of Publication: 1976
Stock Code: 15373
First deluxe edition. Octavo, pp., 286, plus chromolithographic frontispiece, 12 illustrated plates, and two double-page maps, as called for. Publisher’s original black cloth; titled in gilt to spine; Smaug vignette in gilt, ruby, and white to upper board; all edges sprinkled blue; black marbled end-papers. In the original sugar-paper dust-wrapper. Housed within original black clamshell box, titled to label on upper box. Upper box cracked to two corners; a few spots and a little soiling to inside of box. Wrapper torn; one flap detached; the other inexpertly repaired with tape. Cloth bright and fresh; the binding strong and square. Internally crisp. A near-fine copy in serviceable jacket and box. The superbly presented first deluxe edition of ‘The Hobbit’, complete with the highly fragile sugar-paper wrapper. £650.00