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Author: Tolkien, J.R.R.
Title: The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again
Place: London
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin
Date: [1961]
Item # : 184562
Sale Number   364
Lot Number   285
Sale Name    
Fine Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the David Oakey Collection of Gary Snyder
Sale Date   09/27/2007
Price realized   $ 431
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Description:
Illustrated by J.R.R. Tolkien with 8 drawings in text, color frontispiece and cartographic endpapers. 7¼x4¾, decorative green boards with illustrations after Tolkien's designs, pictorial jacket. Second Edition, thirteenth printing (overall) with author's corrections.
The entertaining prelude to Lord of the Rings.
Condition:
Slight fading to book spine; about fine in a strikingly fine and bright jacket.
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