The Hobbit or There and Back Again (Revised Edition)
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Overview:
- Title: The Hobbit or There and Back Again (Revised Edition)
- Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Year: 1978
- ISBN-10: 0345272579
- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- Price: $2.50
- Pages: 287
- Binding: Paperback
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
- Notes:
- Seventy-First printing November 1978. Revised Edition.
- No printing number line in book.
- Copyright © 1937, 1938 and 1966 by J. R. R. Tolkien.
- "The Cover painting, 'Bilbo comes to the Huts of the Raftelves'. is by J. R. R. Tolkien. © George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1937, 1951, 1966." 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.
- First Ballantine Books edition August 1965.
- Revised Edition: (over) First printing February, 1966 (over) Seventy-First printing November 1978.
- A not titled or signed explanation of the changes in the revised edition is on page 9 by actual count.
- Two titled two page maps one on page 10 and the other on page 12. That on page 12 has an initial over initial signature at bottom right.
- 'The enchanting prelude to "The Lord of the Rings" under the title on front cover.