TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) The Hobbit or There and Back Again, THIRD EDITION, BOOK CLUB EDITION, publisher's yellow cloth (soiling), pictorial dust-jacket printed in orange and white (frayed with a few minor losses at extremities of spine, corners and upper edges), 8vo, The Children's Book Club, [1942] Footnotes: VERY RARE DUST-JACKET issued with the first book club edition of Tolkien's Hobbit, of which 3000 copies were printed during the war using sheets from the third impression. The front flap has an advertisement for BBC Radio ('Britain Calls the World... the British radio sticks to the facts'), and the front panel a most unusual depiction of Bilbo Baggins. Writing to Stanley Unwin in 1945 Tolkien commented 'Surely the paper wasted on that hideous dust-cover could have been better used'. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing