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The Hobbit (Third Printing)
Third impression. Octavo. In the publisher’s original green cloth, lettered blue, in the original pictorial dustwrapper of Tolkien’s own design. Top edge green.
 
A fine copy, exceptionally bright and crisp. Paper flaw to p.99. In a crisp, near fine dustwrapper, chip to head of spine, with some toning to the spine also, but this notwithstanding an uncommonly fresh example. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Housed in a bespoke clamshell box. 
 
The third impression of The Hobbit, produced to War Economy Standards in the Second World War in an edition of 1,500 copies. 

The Hobbit (Third Printing)

SKU: 864
£8,500.00Price

  • Author

    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • Publisher

    London: George Allen And Unwin

  • Date

    1942

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