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First edition, starting time press. Publisher's original green cloth with dark blueish titles and wraparound analogy to the boards and spine, in dustwrapper. Green top-stain. Endpaper maps, frontispiece and ix other black and white illustrations past the author. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the fabric vivid and fresh. The light-green top-stain has faded. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the good original dustwrapper that has short tears to the fold corners, several small fries with loss to the panel edges and larger fries at head (22mm at its deepest) and tail of the darkened spine. The underside has a single piece of clear record at the lower spine fold. Not cost-clipped (7s 6d cyberspace to the forepart flap) and with the hand correction to "Dodgeson" on the rear flap, as called for. Housed in a bespoke, blue cloth solander case. A major high spot of fantasy fiction, first published on 21st September 1937 with a print run of only 1500 copies. Tolkien's first novel was an immediate success, selling out within months and a 2d printing hurriedly issued in Dec of the same twelvemonth. The Hobbit has never been out of print, translated into fifty languages and sold over a hundred 1000000 copies worldwide. (Bleiler; Hammond and Anderson A3a) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Expert. 1st Edition. Allen and Unwin 1942. 1st, 3rd printing. Some number of these were damage in a warehouse fire during the WWII. Then few were seen with dust jackets it was thought they were printed without. Arguably more than scarce than a 1st/1st. These were cheaply printed, especially the dust jacket. Few survive in any condition, even if looked subsequently. Book is well-nigh fine, remarkable then. Printed on wartime paper and so the dust jacket appears over-sized. Slight scuffing to cloth corners is the merely flaw. Consummate, original grit jacket, no restoration, simply worse for vesture. If you lot have collected older Hobbits, yous'll know the newspaper is very brittle, chips easy (especially on folds) and even careful treatment leads to farther tattering and breakage. Various sections and small pieces accept been held together with removable acid costless archive tape so that it presents well overall as seen in the photos. First editions at present sell for �100,000 plus. Few first edition of any printing accept come on the market in the least two years. See all our Hobbits listed. Please enquire for photos which volition give you a better idea of the condition. The first edition Hobbits accept the original text which was contradistinct for the second edition 1954 to bring it in-line with the presently to exist released The Lord of the Rings in social club to aligned the two stories. Affiliate 5 in particular was changed as was various names, employ of words etc. Goblins became Orcs. Professor Tolkien continue to make changes and improvements to bother books with each press, even into the 2d and tertiary printings of both he refined the text.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Status: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Allen and Unwin 1946 1st, 4th printing, last press of the first edition. Impress quantities were 1500 each printing so very rare. These were cheaply printed, especially the dust jacket. Few outset editions of any printing survive in whatever condition, fifty-fifty if looked after. For some reason in the twenty some years nosotros've been a specialist Tolkien dealer, a few examples of the quaternary printing remain in fine condition and jacket? Possibly stored with the publisher and never sold, employees copies perchance? This is one of them, truly outstanding condition. Book is well-nigh fine, remarkable so. Printed on wartime paper so the grit jacket appears over-sized. a few tiny foxing spots to page edges, but not on pages. Slight scuffing to material corners edges is the merely flaw. Complete, original grit jacket, no restoration, slight concealment of white on the spine and mountains on the cover, otherwise most fine overall. First editions now sell for �100,000 plus. Few first edition of whatever printing have come on the market in the least two years. See all our Hobbits listed. Please ask for photos which will give you a improve idea of the condition. The first edition Hobbits have the original text which was altered for the second edition 1954 to bring information technology in-line with the presently to exist released The Lord of the Rings in order to aligned the two stories. Affiliate 5 in item was changed as was various names, utilise of words etc. Goblins became Orcs. Professor Tolkien continue to make changes and improvements to carp books with each press, even into the second and tertiary printings of both he refined the text.
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Hardcover. Status: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Publishers. 1937, 1954. London, U.K. First edition and 10th press. Signed by author on championship page. Book in FINE condition, tight and square, sharp corners. Dustwrapper in NEAR FINE condition, original 12s. 6d. internet cost present on forepart flap, no chips or damage, unfaded spine, foxing on both flaps. Overall a FINE copy in great collectible condition. Very rare signed. Photos available. $17500. Signed by Author(s).
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Hardcover. Kickoff Edition; Third Printing. The volume is bound in the publisher's original dark-green cloth covers with blackness titles and decoration in a facsimile jacket. Presenting very well this is a squeamish clean copy with minimal signs of age or clothing. A few light flim-flam marks, very good. To go into nifty particular: the corners have softened only a touch on and the spine tips have a couple of very tiny bumps and some soiling. Internally the book is once again superb, all original with no restoration. Owner ink stamp to the 2d folio. The book sits squeamish and square with some mild foxing to the first few leaves and occasionally through the volume generally consistent with a book of this age. A little foxing to text block. Overall a real beauty. The first press of The Hobbit was issued on 21st September 1937 with a print run of merely 1500 copies. The book was an firsthand success and sold out within months. This 2nd impression was printed in December the same yr in an edition of 2300 copies (423 of which were destroyed at the warehouse of the binder Cardinal and Whiting in the bombing of London on Nov seventh 1940) and was the kickoff press to include the writer's 1 colour plate, initially commissioned for and afterward published in the American edition. [Hammond A3a. ] An absolute collector'south gem and every bit rare equally the Commencement and second Press. In belatedly 1942, Allen & Unwin printed 1,500 copies of a third impression under their imprint. ; All domestic orders shipped protected in a Box.
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hardcover. Condition: very practiced. kickoff. Beginning US edition, kickoff upshot. Book very skillful, spine ends slightly worn, corners slightly rubbed, betwixt 2nd gratis end newspaper and next paper some cracking along gutter also as in rear, rear paste-down has a pocket-sized bookstore sticker at bottom and a number postage stamp at top.
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Condition: Very Practiced. Get-go Edition. First American edition, first state with a bowing hobbit on the title page, and Chapter Seven mistakenly titles Chapter VI. Bound in publisher's original vitrify cloth stamped in blue and red; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with soiling to cloth, toning to spine with fraying at spine ends and corners. Text block slightly sunken. One-time owner rubber stamp to front end paste down, pages toned. Tolkien's fantasy masterpiece, with illustrations by the author. Housed in a custom cloth chemise example.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Outset EDITION Second IMPRESSION AND THE FIRST WITH Color PLATES. 1 vol., 7-1/ii" x 5-1/ii", 5 plates (4 colour), eight illustrations by the writer, ad leaf at end, bound in full dark dark-green morocco, ribbed gilt busy spine, covers ruled in gold, Smaug the dragon gilt to lower right corner of the front comprehend, golden dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, original cloth covers and spine jump in rear, original front map pastedown and endpaper jump in the front end, map pastedown only bound in the rear, by Bayntun, IN AS NEW Status. Published in the same year as the first and the first edition to include colour plates. Tolkien began writing The Hobbit, or In that location and Back Again, equally a Professor of English Linguistic communication and Literature at Oxford University. Tolkien's creative perspective was built-in from a childhood spent briefly in South Africa and then rural England, a brusque but wretched tour during Earth War I, and an avid fascination with German philology. Although it was originally billed every bit a children'due south book, The Hobbit attracted a varied audience and has been wildly popular since its initial publication. Tolkien built upon the tradition of fantasy literature adult by George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, and the folk tales of Arabian Nights past inventing a new language?Elvish?and making information technology attainable for modern-day readers. Such creativity brought rave reviews for The Hobbit, which sold out of its original print run of 1,500 copies 3 months subsequently publication.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Extremely rare first US edition, every bit indicated by bowing Hobbit on championship likewise every bit chapter Vii being mistakenly labeled as affiliate VI. Bounden is different though- appears to exist unique library binding, gilded-tan with dark bluish lettering and a brown Hobbit/elf on front end board. Library labeling etched into fabric on spine, otherwise minimal labeling. Defective the illustrated endpapers. All colour plates nowadays, clean and vibrant. Minor dust wear to boards, general shelf/reading wearable. Spine somewhat faded. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy. Experience gratuitous to ask for photos!.
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Hardcover. Status: Very Skilful. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Expert. 1st Edition. First Edition, Tertiary state with flute role player illustration to title folio and corrected Affiliate Seven beginning on page 118 equally intended. Illustrations by the writer. Pages are complete with 310pp, with 15 illustrations including two maps equally endpapers and iv colour plates (including the frontispiece). Bound in original publishers buff material and stamped in blue and cerise. Lacking dust jacket. Blue ink inscription of previous owner to starting time blank. Complete with all 15 illustrations, as called for. Pages and plates are generally very clean, as shown.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Proficient. 1st Edition. First Us edition, first impression with chapter seven mis numbered and the vignette of the bowing boy on the title page. Publisher's boards, supplied with a facsimile dust wrapper. The covers have been expertly restored with a bit of staining and rubbing to the extremities. Previous possessor's name on the front end paper with some light staining and marking to a few places in the text, but overall a very good copy, complete with the author's illustrations.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Grit Jacket Condition: Almost Fine. 1st Edition. Second edition, fifth impression (ninth impression overall) (Allen and Unwin, 1957). Original green fabric with black lettering and motifs to spine and upper and lower boards with map endpapers and paste-downs. A beautiful, fine and clean re-create with only light toning to edges and very slight dustiness to top border. Boards are completely clean and appear untouched. Internally pristine and costless from whatever marks names or inscriptions. The original and unclipped dust jacket has i or 2 very modest and shallow chips and isolated instances of rubbing with a very small tear to top of upper panel fore-edge, nearly fine otherwise. A fantastic, near fine example. Rare thus.
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No Binding. Status: Most Fine. MICHAEL HAGUE (illustrator). 1st Edition. MICHAEL HAGUE ORIGINAL PUBLISHED Analogy FROM "THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING", THE LORD OF THE RINGS MICHAEL HAGUE, (AMERICAN 1948-Date) A STUNNING DETAILED PUBLISHED ILLUSTRATION, USED As THE FRONTIS Slice FROM THE PREMIUM LEATHER Bound COLLECTOR'S EDITION, Iii Book Fix PUBLISHED By THE EASTON PRESS, 1984. THE ARTWORK DEPICTS GANDALF AND THE BALROG FROM THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, FROM THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY. WATERCOLOR ON Board, 7?X 11? ART Image SIZE AND nine" X xiii" BOARD SIZE, UNFRAMED Stunning Published Original watercolor illustration on board by Michael Hague which is the Frontis piece for the book, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. The piece depicts Gandalf and The Balrog from the infamous scene on the span. This is a beautifully detailed slice, (with Gandolf's sword and flowing hair actualization equally magically illuminated-utilise the zoom feature for a shut-upward view), by one of the leading American illustrators from one of the most important pieces of fantasy literature in the 20th century.The illustration is signed lower right. The art is in overall excellent condition with publishers notes outside of margins. Unframed. PROVENANCE: The fine art was purchased from an Sale House who was commissioned to sell several original illustrations by Michael Hague. A copy of the original beak of auction volition be included with the piece, and will provide both provenance and authenticity for the art. This piece is SIGNED by Michael Hague lower right. The art is in great status and would exist stunning framed. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON Request. Delight see our Abe store for other original analogy fine art and rare books.
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Hardcover. Condition: Well-nigh Fine. Grit Jacket Condition: Very Adept. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ (tear at acme of spine). 1st Edition, 2nd edition, 8th impression (Allen and Unwin, 1956). Original light-green cloth with black lettering and motifs to spine and upper and lower boards with map endpapers and paste-downs. A beautiful, fine and clean re-create with tight bounden. Boards are completely clean and untouched. Previous owner signature elevation of 2d bare page. Otherwise internally pristine and free from any marks. The original and clipped dust jacket has one tear at tiptop virtually spine (see photograph) otherwise in pristine condition with mylar encompass. A fantastic, rare near fine example.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Nigh Fine. 1st Edition. Every bit-New Book, Slipcase has some minor fading characterization otherwise fine. At present extremely rare in this condition. Note, trivial known feature. The correct slipcase for the first edition is paper covered. The 1979 2d and subsequent printings are vinyl covered which is ameliorate wearing. Few of the real slipcases survive and later slipcases are often substituted. This makes this example very rare, thus the higher toll.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Commencement. FINE Offset IN FULL LEATHER NINE VOLUMES INCLUDING ATLAS.
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Hardcover. Condition: About Fine. 1st Edition. About fine/VGC.George Allen and Unwin,1982/1979. The Lord of the Rings is eighth impression and The Hobbit is second impression of this special slipcase edition. Black hardbacks (gilt illustration on the front cover, gilt lettering to the spine, small marker, nick and scratch on the edges of the back comprehend for The Hobbit) in near fine condition, with original slipcases (small dents, nicks on the slipcases modest tear and marker on the edges of the slipcase for The Hobbit, printed on the front end of the slipcases) in VGC. No Dj cover every bit issued. Illustrated with colour plates , colour folded maps. Illustrations by H.E. Riddett. Prissy and make clean pages as new with Dappled green on the outer edges, a couple of minor creases and nicks on the edges of the pages. Dainty and clean ii volume set with light shelf habiliment on the slipcases.1479pp appendices, indexes, foreword, list of illustrations. A collectable and scarce deluxe edition set. Heavy books (approx. i.9 Kg).
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Outset deluxe edition of Tolkien's kickoff novel. Octavo, original publisher's blackness pictorial cloth depicting illustrative vignette of Smaug to the front end embrace in gilded, silver and scarlet, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece and 9 full-page uncolored illustrations subsequently drawings past Tolkien. In about fine condition. "In enchanted Middle-earth, a small, comfort-loving Hobbit is awakened from his slumbers by a visitor who tells of lost treasure. Before Bilbo Baggins returns home once again, he journeys by wizards and elves, talkative trees and treasure-guarding dragons, all swirling in catholic battle between good and evil. J.R.R. Tolkien's fully realized fantasy world won over generations of children, and dazzled adults with its deft interweaving of medieval fable and made-upwards languages, maps, and creatures. Tolkien legitimized the modernistic fantasy genre, and provided the 1960's counterculture with antiwar, dorsum-to-Eden icons" (NYPL Books of the Century 199).
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Hardcover. Condition: Expert. Dust Jacket Status: No Jacket As Issued. Torbj�rn Zetterholm and Charles Sj�blom (illustrator). First Edition. Proficient Condition. Internally Very Expert and Unmarked. See attached photos. Meaning Edgewear to Board Edges. Spine a trivial faded. Little area of abrasion towards elevation right of rear board. In general quite a overnice copy. Showtime Swedish translation of "The Hobbit" (and indeed the outset ever translation of "The Hobbit" - albeit one that Tolkien himself was non happy with.).
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. All starting time press 1965. Ballantine printed the official versions later on the release of the illegal Ace paperbacks. Pages make clean but yellowed. FotR was read a few times, with former damp to forepart end pages (now dry out), TT and RotK are read once condition binding tight. Covers have rubbing to the colours in places, with RotK the embrace corner had folded over at i stage, causing chipping to the fold. Information technology is not otherwise cutting or torn. 1965 Hobbit has a King of beasts on the cover which was airbrushed out on adjacent printing. These are equally rare. This is even so an above average ready includes the start mass production white slipcase, which was subsequently replaced past the more mutual red box. The slipcases were produce separately so it tin't be said which printing went with which slipcase except the green proto-blazon box which was for the second 3,2,2 printings. (the very outset 1965 printings did not have a slipcase). Now extremely deficient in any condition.
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Hardcover. Condition: Skillful. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. Mikhail Belomlinskiy (illustrator). First Edition. Practiced Status. No Dustjacket as Issued. Meaning Lean to Volume. Various Marks/Stains to boards. Owners Proper name to Front Pastedown. See Photos Fastened. First Armenian Translation. Commencement Press. Translation past Emma Makaryan. Illustrations by Mikhail Belomlinskiy. Illustrated in Blackness and White. Encounter Hammond, Section Grand, Page 389.
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Hardcover. Status: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Puffin 1961, Starting time Hobbit Paperback. One of the finest copies we've sold. The usual paper yellowing, slight lean, owners signature in pen. The cover has merely minor vesture, scuffing to spine edges, but no fading or scratching as commonly constitute. Except for the age realted wear, read one time condition which is rare for a paperback.
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Hardcover. Status: Very Adept. No Jacket. Beginning Edition. Very Good Volume (Light Wear to Covers - Partially Removed Gummy Label on Forepart Map Endpaper - See Photos Attached). No Dustjacket equally Issued. Hard Cover. Translation of the Hobbit in Esperanto. First Edition. Showtime Press 2000.
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Hardcover. Status: Very Good. No Jacket. Tolkien (illustrator). First American Edition. Get-go edition, 28th press. Light-green boards in very practiced shape. Illustrated by the author. Clean and tight throughout. Prev. owner bookplate. 317 pages plus the Wilderland map at the back.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine/VGC.George Allen and Unwin,1984. Offset edition-3rd impression of this special slipcase edition. Black hardback (gilded illustration on the front cover, gilt lettering to the spine, pocket-sized marker on the edges of the back cover) in near fine condition, with original slipcase (small marks on the edges of the front end slipcase, pocket-sized nicks and tear on the edges of the slipcase, printed on the front of the slipcase The Hobbit Or At that place and Back Again -J.R.R. Tolkien- Deluxe Edition) in VGC. No Dj cover as issued. Illustrated with colour plates, map. Illustrations by H.E. Riddett. Nice and clean pages with Dappled light-green on the outer edges, two small-scale ink marks on the edges of the front endpaper. Overnice and clean book with low-cal shelf wear on the slipcase.286pp including List of illustrations. A collectable and scarce palatial edition. Heavy book.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Signed United kingdom 1st editions/printings 1/1. Fine, in fabric boards. Beautiful publications, The Hobbit Sketchbook signed to title folio by Lee and additionally the Lord of the Rings too. Both housed in slipcase and still in publisher's compress wrap, albeit broken to permit for the signing of the second book. Only 3000 worldwide and now deficient. Since 2001 First State Books has specialised in literary and children's fiction. Nosotros offer a guarantee of actuality and that all items as described. Signed by Author(due south).
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Hardcover. Status: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Proficient. Get-go Edition, First Printing. Fair to Practiced Book in Very Skilful Dustjacket. Unfortunately the binding is broken at both front and rear of book (see additonal photos attached). This could do with some restoration. Dustjacket slightly faded to spine, Actually nice presenting book (binding issues excepted) Delight run across attached five photos.
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Hard Cover in Slipcase. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. Alan Lee (illustrator). Kickoff Edition Thus. Still Sealed in Shrinkwrap. Equally New. 2 Volumes in Slipcase. Signed by Alan Lee. Limited Edition of 3000 Copies. Signed by Author(s).
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No Binding. Status: Fine. No Jacket. Lucie Schrimp (illustrator). First Edition. The Shire, A Hobbit Identify. By French artist Lucie F. Schrimp. Unusual technique of painting with fingers merely. With Artist C.O.A. Signed by Illustrator(due south).
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Illustrated by David Wenzel (illustrator). First Edition. An illustrated, comic volume class. This is a express, slipcased edition. AIt is no. 393. A new copy in perfect condition. It is unopened and nonetheless sealed in the original shrinkwrap. ; 8vo viii" - 9" alpine; Signed by Illustrator.
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