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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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About this book
The Hobbit tells the famous
story of Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who is caught up in the affairs of
wizards. His journey through Mirkwood and the climactic confrontation
with the dragon Smaug served as the launching point for Tolkien's
transformative trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. Many of the
essential elements of Tolkien's classic saga have their roots in this
children's book.
The story remains popular, and stands as one of the most enduring (and endearing) stories of the last century. The Hobbit sparked a creative explosion in speculative fiction, a fire that burns brightly to this day. The revival in interest in recent years, in part due to the popularity of the film series inspired by Tolkien's books only shows the timelessness of his story, and the importance of his work.
The story remains popular, and stands as one of the most enduring (and endearing) stories of the last century. The Hobbit sparked a creative explosion in speculative fiction, a fire that burns brightly to this day. The revival in interest in recent years, in part due to the popularity of the film series inspired by Tolkien's books only shows the timelessness of his story, and the importance of his work.
First Edition Identification
The first impression of the first edition ran as a limited printing of 1500 copies, published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1937. Authentic copies with the dust jacket will include a well known hand correction, in black ink, of a misspelling of the last name of Reverend Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) on the back flap. A first edition, first printing of the original U.K. edition can run over $40,000. Signed copies of this edition have been appraised at over $100,000 U.S. Later printings of the first edition also retain much value for collectors. The first U.S. Edition, printed in 1938 by Houghton Mifflin Company, is prized and is commonly sold to collectors at prices well over $2,000. Chips to the cover, a missing dustcover, wear to the spine, and damage to the map in the endpaper, are some of the more common flaws for this book.
Details
- Title The Hobbit or There and Back Again
- Author J.R.R. Tolkien
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Book Club Editio
- Pages 255
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
- Date 1997
- ISBN 9780739410745
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The Hobbit or There and Back Again
by Tolkien, J. R. R
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by J.R.R. Tolkien
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A fine book club hardcover edition in a fine dust jacket, no remainder marks. Bindings are tight and straight. A very nice collectable copy
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The Hobbit or There and Back Again
by Tolkien, J R R
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A tight and unmarked copy-" Bilbo Bessac, like all hobbits, is a good-natured little being who appreciates his uneventful life under The Hill. But one fine day, Gandalf the magician and thirteen surly dwarves knock on his door. The latter has decided to recover a treasure that was stolen from them years ago, and is asking for his help! Here is Bilbo drawn into a perilous journey for a fabulous quest for treasure. A great adventure that will lead this team to the Solitary Mountain guarded by the dangerous dragon Smaug? The Hobbits is the first story published by JRRTolkien, in 1937. This story, invented by the author for his own children, relates the adventures of Bilbo, a young Hobbit hero in spite of himself, launched in search of a treasure guarded by a dragon, in the company of dwarves and the magician Gandalf. This text has enchanted generations of readers. It's a great adventure, with its suspense, its twists, its humor, its poetry, to read alone from the age of 8 or to be read for a beautiful…
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