The Hobbit

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.