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The hobbit, or, There and back again / by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Accession number
PML 84830
Creator
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.
Published
London : George Allen & Unwin ..., [1937]
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1985.
Notes
"First published 1937 ... Printed in Great Britain by Unwin Brothers ..."--T.p. verso.
Ill. and cover design by author.
Maps on endpapers.
Advertisement, p. [312].
ALS, dated 14 Dec., 1937, removed to Autograph Manuscript Dept. (MA 4373).
Description
310, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., maps ; 20 cm
Provenance
Sotheby's London, 28-29 July 1977, lot 537; Glenn Horowitz, Catalogue 4: Modern First Editions (New York, 1981), lot 588; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1985.
Binding
Green publisher's cloth with design by Tolkien, with illustrated dust-jacket.
Classification
Department