The Hobbit: or There and Back Again
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Overview:
- Title: The Hobbit: or There and Back Again
- Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Year: Unknown
- ISBN-10: 9780008376116
- Publisher: HarperCollins (UK)
- Price: £30
- Pages: viii+307
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
- Notes:
- Stated 9th printing (per number line) of 2020 HarperCollins illustrated hardback edition
- Publication date not available
- Printing history on copyright page:
- This illustrated hardback edition 2020
- First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 1991, 1997 [over] Fifth edition (reset) 1995
- First published in Great Britain by [over] George Allen & Unwin 1937 [over] Second edition 1951 [over] Third edition 1966 [over] Fourth edition 1978
- Cover art credits appear on the back flap of the dust jacket: "Jacket design (c) HarperCollinsPublishers 2020" and "Jacket illustrations (c) Alan Lee 1997"
- Prices appear on the front flap of the dust jacket: "UK £30" and "CAN $46.99"
- The interior art by Alan Lee consists of 27 colored plates on unnumbered pages, a black and white illustration at the start of each chapter, and a number of black and white illustrations interspersed in the text.
- A list of plates appears on numbered pages vii and viii
- Both maps are in color
- A page with the title "The Hobbit" above a black and white illustration of a winged dragon precedes the title page. It's not clear whether the illustration is by Tolkien or Lee, although the style clearly is Tolkien's as on "Thror's Map".