The Hobbit or There and Back Again. London: George Allen, 1975. Third Edition, Tenth Impression. A good copy in rubbed and browned pictorial dust jacket & endpapers with some soiling to page edges.

Illustrated in black and white and coloured plates by the author.

Tolkien’s prelude to ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ in which the true significance of Bilbo’s success in riddles, and the nature of Gollum’s ‘Precious’ is revealed.