I dont know if anyone saw this one yet...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HOBBIT-first- ... m2a1c6bcd09#ht_500wt_1203

THE HOBBIT first edition!!! For only 50$


OH! Wait! It's not the Hobbit and definitely it's not in good shape :P

Shipping only to UK...
I guess you'll have UK buyers only then ;-(

@garm & @khamul:
Thanks for your comments. The design is not actually mine. I saw a website about Tolkien many years ago and doownloaded the CSS file. I didn't copy the website's name so I cannot give credit (it was soooo long ago). I just added more images, reformatte, added some runes...

@maryb
If I'm not mistaken, you should be Mary from neko.com ;-P
Sorry I didn't send you an email about the Bengali hobbit as I did about the Basque one. By the way, I dont know if you got your Basque copy yet or you didn't order. I've just check your site and it's not listed. I have just checked and it's available in casadellibro.com (search for "hobbita"), just in case you want it ;-)

Cheers,
Gololo

Hello everybody,

Let me present myself. I am a Spanish collector and my friends know me as Gololo (although that's not my real name ;-P). I have been collecting Hobbits since I was 18. That's... 13 years so far. I'm 31 now.

My collection started as a souvenir thing. Every time I visited a country, I would buy a copy of the Hobbit in the language of the country. But later on, I realized I would never get some copies, as there are some places it would be unlikely that I would ever visit (Faroe Islands, Iceland...). So I started gathering many hobbits through the Internet.

Right now, my collection sums 52 different translations. I have been in contact with The Hobbit Hunter and we kind of agreed that it's difficult to make a complete list. I would say I'm only lacking 2 more translations and 2 partial translations:

2 translations: Belarussian and Moldovan. Although Moldovan is considered by the majority of the linguists the same language as Romanian, the edition of 1987 is written with cyrillic alphabet and therefore, I would count it in.

2 partial translations: 1 page of the Hobbit has been translated into Latin and Silesian.

I've decided that I'll make my collection of whole books, so I'm not looking for the partial translations. But if anyone has a double copy of the Belarussian and the Moldovan editions and he/she is willing to sell... please let me know. It would make me very happy to finish my collection,, hehe!

By the way, if anyone wants to take a look, I made a small summary of my collection here: www.gololo.es/hobbit

Cheers,
Gololo