Dominic Winter - Hobbit for Auction - Thu, 17th Jun 2021

Lot 549 (Children's & Illustrated Books, Private Press & Fine Bindings, Modern First Editions, Thu, 17th Jun 2021)

Estimate £700 - £1,000

Sold for £3600 plus a 20% buyers premium £4320 in total.

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit or There and Back Again, 1st edition, 2nd impression, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1937, colour frontispiece, colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, map endpapers (slightly toned), original green pictorial cloth, spine a little toned and rubbed at ends, slight lean, 8vo

The second impression, published in the same year as the first, and the first with the colour plates.

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