The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

Overview:

  • Title: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
  • Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Year: 1966
  • Publisher: Unwin
  • Pages: 279
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
  • Notes: 16-line printing history on copyright page with line 16 reading: Third edition (sixteenth impression) 1966. [Currey] Revised text

    The Third Edition represented first by this book and the contemporary Longmans hardcover contains the second resetting of the text that incorporates a version of the revision Tolkien prepared in 1965, the last that he prepared. Slightly different versions of the same revision were incorporated in other revised editions and all of them introduced new typesetting errors. --The Annotated Hobbit (1st ed., 1988), Appendix A