first edition Hardcover
1938 · Boston
by Tolkien, J.R.R.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, second state with publisher's colophon on the title page in place of the bowing Hobbit. Bound in publisher's original beige cloth stamped in red and blue; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with cloth foxed as spine and edges, worn at corners and spine ends and lightly stained to the lower edge of the rear cover. Sporadic foxing to pages and a faint, diagonal crease to several early pages. A lovely copy of Tolkien's fantasy masterpiece.
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