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TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) The Hobbit or There and Back Again, George Allen & Unwin, [1937]
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TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)
The Hobbit or There and Back Again, second impression, half title, 5 plates (4 colour), 8 illustrations by the author, advertisement leaf, maps printed in black and red on endpapers, publisher's green pictorial cloth, dust-jacket with designs by the author, unclipped, some light staining to edges of cloth, dust-jacket torn at folds with loss to head of spine panel, reinforced on verso, some spotting and staining [cf. Hammond A3(a) and p.13], 8vo, George Allen & Unwin, [1937]
Footnotes
According to Hammond, the four additional colour illustrations by Tolkien that appear here had been commissioned for the American edition; Allen & Unwin decided to include them in the second UK impression and had the artwork sent over to London for the purpose.





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