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Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, first impression, frontispiece, one plate and 8 illustrations, including 7 full-page, map endpapers printed in red & black, all by the author, 2pp. advertisements, ink ownership stamps and signature to front free endpaper recto and verso, corner creases and light browning to pp.71-73, cracking to gutter at pp. 208-209, minor marginal closed tear to front free end paper, light spotting to endpapers, light marginal finger-soiling and the odd spot to one or two pp., original pictorial cloth, slightly cocked, spotting to boards and edges, spine ends lightly bumped, 8vo, 1937.

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, seventh impression, frontispiece, one plate and 8 illustrations, one plate and 8 illustrations, including 7 full-page, map endpapers printed in red & black, all by the author, original pictorial cloth, slightly faded, mostly to spine, light spotting to fore edge, dust-jacket, light spotting and toning, small nick to head of spine, corners lightly rubbed, 8vo, 1955.