"he poked his head above the roof of leaves"
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Overview:
Editions/Publications:
- Unknown. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Unknown, Alan Lee, Houghton Mifflin, ISBN-10: 9780395873465, $35.00, x+289+[V] pages, Hardcover, Novel)
- Unknown. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Unknown, Alan Lee, Houghton Mifflin, ISBN-10: 0395873460, $35.00, x+289+[5] pages, Hardcover, Novel)