The Hobbit or There and Back Again. London: George Allen, 1967. Third Edition, 17th Impression. Green cloth boards in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. Jacket lightly chipped, scuff mark to middle of upper wrapper, mild sunning to head of spine of boards, otherwise a nice bright copy.

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

Tolkien’s classic precursor to The Lord of the Rings, originally published in 1937 to widespread acclaim, unveils the true importance of Bilbo’s riddle-game victory and the mysterious nature of Gollum’s “Precious.”

Scarce in the dust jacket, this is a clean, well-preserved copy from a relatively early printing, maintaining the look and feel of the original 1937 first edition.