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Sale 5890
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| Philadelphia
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Estimate$2,500 – $4,000
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Hobbit or There and Back Again
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First American edition, first impression (with bowing hobbit decoration on title-page). 8vo. 310 pp. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, three color plates, and 9 black and white illustrations, by Tolkien. Publisher's tan cloth, stamped in blue and in red, slightly cocked, scattered other very light soiling to boards and spine; all edges trimmed; illustrated endpapers; book-plate on verso of frontispiece; dust-jacket wanting. Hammond and Anderson A3b1
A lovely copy of the first American edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic.
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