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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1970. [Fantasy Adventure] THIRD EDITION, fifth impression thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.317 [3]. With illustrations by the author, including colour plate as frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth blocked in dark blue, with illustrated maps to endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at 25s. Internally crisp and clean, with a touch of spotting to edges. Cloth spine sunned, with some bumping to corners. Jacket shows toning to spine and flap joints, with some large losses to spine and corners. Very good. Seldom has any book been so widely read and loved as this classic tale. Its hero, Bilbo Baggins, has taken his place among the ranks of the immortals: Alice, Pooh, Toad... Tolkien's Middle-Earth is a vast mine of treasures and knowledge, its roots delving deep into folklore, mythology and language. 'The Hobbit' is an ideal introduction to this richly imagined world, which was more fully and complexly realised in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Silmarillion'. Item #73556
Price: £475.00
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