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Printed Books, Manuscripts and Artwork
3:00 AM PT - Dec 12th, 2008

 

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Bloomsbury Auctions

 

Bloomsbury House
24 Maddox Street
Mayfair, London, W1 S1PP
Uk Auction

 

       

Lot 1091D save

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, binding

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Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again,
first edition, first impression, frontispiece and illustrations by the author, maps and original cloth covers and spine bound in at end, slight loss to panel of original upper cover at lower fore-corner, small section of loss to text near inner margin of pp.13/14 replaced in ms., light ink name on one map, otherwise internally very good, bookplate with monogram on preliminary blank f., bound in full green morocco with gilt borders, lettering and spine compartments, by the Chelsea Bindery, g.e., fine, matching green morocco-tipped cloth slip-case, 8vo, 1937.

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