The Hobbit or There and Back Again. London: George Allen, 1961. Second Edition, Twelfth Impression. Green cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. The Jacket is chipped with some loss to tail of spine, and upper flap fold, pale spotting to title page, otherwise a nice bright copy.

Illustrated in black and white and with 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.