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TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) The Hobbit or There and Back Again. Illustrated by the Author, FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, George Allen & Unwin, 1937
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TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)
The Hobbit or There and Back Again. Illustrated by the Author, FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, 13 plates and illustrations (4 colour), advertisement leaf, map endpapers by the author printed in red and black, publisher's pictorial light green cloth, light soiling, one corner slightly scuffed [cf. Hammond A3(a) and p.13], 8vo, George Allen & Unwin, 1937
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The second impression, dated 1937 but actually published in January 1938, saw the first appearance of four additional colour illustrations by Tolkien. Some 2300 copies were printed, although 423 unbound copies were destroyed at the binders during the Blitz in 1940.





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