The Hobbit or There and Back Again. London: George Allen, 1972. Third Edition, Sixth Impression. A nice bright copy in lightly rubbed and browned pictorial dust jacket.

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.