The Hobbit
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Overview:
- Title: The Hobbit
- Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Year: 1988
- ISBN-10: 0345339681
- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- Price: $4.95
- Pages: 304
- Binding: Paperback
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Hobbit
- Notes:
- Twenty-Third printing September 1988. [This Publication Record].
- Special Book Club Edition.
- 50th anniversary edition.
- Black plastic comb binding [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb_Binding]. Is not obvious in picture.
- Copyright © 1937, 1938, and 1966 by J. R. R. Tolkien.
- Introduction copyright © 1973 by Peter Beagle.
- Maps of Middle-earth copyright © George Allen & Unwin Publishers, Ltd. 1980.
- Manufactured in the United States of America.
- First Ballantine Books Edition August 1965.
- First printing January 1982.
- "Cover art by Michael Herring" on copyright page.
- Introduction copyright © 1973 by Peter Beagle. Introduction is not titled and is on page 3 by actual count and ends with -Peter S. Beagle (over) Watsonville, California (over) 14 July 1973. Dated to the given date due to it's being used in The Lords of the Rings parts 1-3 printings by Ballantine.
- A not titled or signed explanation of the changes in the revised edition is bp.
- Two titled two page maps. Last one has an initial over initial signature at bottom right. It is Tolkien.