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The Hobbit - US 1st Edition

First State

Bowing Hobbit on title page

Frontispiece attached to stub of excised second page

List of illustrations is not correct

Two states of binding seen, with and without bands of horizontal ribbing

Second State

Bowing hobbit on title page replaced with man playing flute under tree (publisher's device)

second page is integral, half title, blank on reverse

List of illustrations corrected

No horizontal ribbing on binding

Published 1 March 1938, 5000 copies, $2.50 ea.

Last modified: 10/07/08 by Urulókë