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: 0395177111
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- Pages: 317+[2]
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
- Notes:
- Illustrations (including cover) per title page
- Copyright 1966.
- First printing of this "Collector's Edition" was October 1973, at a price of $12.50. See J. R. R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography by Hammond & Anderson.
- 15th undated printing per printer's key: HOR 20 19 18 17 16 15
- Bound in imitation green leather with gold and red gilt, in cardboard slipcase also bound in imitation green leather with an illustrated title label paste-on. Green speckling on the page block edges.
- Two unnumbered pages follow the last numbered page and contain the map of Wilderland (would be pp. 318-319).
- Includes both the uncolored drawings (here tinted green) and the color paintings (inserted as unpaginated plates). Maps are also tinted green.