[George Selden] [Cricket in Times Square] Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Hobbit
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1955]. American edition, seventh impression, bound from British sheets. 8vo, 315pp. Color frontis, illustrations, and map endpapers by Tolkien. Publisher's brown cloth, lettered in black, in illustrated jacket. Lengthy inscription from George [Selden] Thompson on the ffep. Few smudges to endpapers and boards else a near fine copy in very good jacket, without a printed price, and with toning flaps and a tear to bottom edge of front panel.
Very interesting provenance on this Tolkien classic, with a warm gift inscription from George Selden Thompson to a prominent New York physician: "...You will see that this is more than a children's book if you can find time to read its splendid sequel, The Lord of the Rings."
Price: $1,500.00
https://www.perusethestacks.com/pages/books/8876/george-selden-j-r-r-tolkien-cricket-in-times-square/the-hobbit
The Hobbit
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1955]. American edition, seventh impression, bound from British sheets. 8vo, 315pp. Color frontis, illustrations, and map endpapers by Tolkien. Publisher's brown cloth, lettered in black, in illustrated jacket. Lengthy inscription from George [Selden] Thompson on the ffep. Few smudges to endpapers and boards else a near fine copy in very good jacket, without a printed price, and with toning flaps and a tear to bottom edge of front panel.
Very interesting provenance on this Tolkien classic, with a warm gift inscription from George Selden Thompson to a prominent New York physician: "...You will see that this is more than a children's book if you can find time to read its splendid sequel, The Lord of the Rings."
Price: $1,500.00
https://www.perusethestacks.com/pages/books/8876/george-selden-j-r-r-tolkien-cricket-in-times-square/the-hobbit
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