Rare Early Printing of the Hobbit Tolkien (J.R.R.)  The Hob...

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Rare Early Printing of the Hobbit

Tolkien (J.R.R.)  The Hobbit or There and Back Again, Lond., George Allen & Unwin 1959. Second Edn, Eleventh Impression. Illustrated cloth boards, with illustrated end papers. Original pictorial d.j. designed b y the author. Housed  in collector's solander box. (Illustrated in black and white and with one coloured frontispiece plate by the author.)

Tolkien's prelude to 'The Lord of the Rings,' First Published in 1937 to wide critical acclaim, in which the true significance  of Bilbo's success in riddles, and the nature of Gollum's 'Precious' is revealed.  

A relatively early printing, matching the appearance & format of the first edition.