Bonhams 1793 : TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) The Hobbit or There and Back Again

The Hobbit or There and Back Again, first edition, frontispiece, one plate, 8 illustrations, decorative endpapers, advertisement at end, small pencil note erased from front free endpaper, early ownership inscription on half-title, publisher's green pictorial cloth, soiled, two short horizontal tears to spine [Hammond A3(a)], 8vo, George Allen & Unwin, 1937

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