The Hobbit — SFBC Fantasy / Houghton Mifflin — Donato Jacket

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien.
A very attractive SFBC Fantasy (Science Fiction Book Club) hardcover issue published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

This edition features the striking Donato Giancola dust-jacket artwork depicting Smaug within the halls of the Lonely Mountain — one of the most recognisable modern American jacket designs for The Hobbit. The book includes Tolkien’s own illustrations and the traditional map endpapers as issued.

Publication details:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company (SFBC Fantasy issue)
ISBN: 0-7394-1074-1
Printed in the United States of America
SFBC reference number: 01263

Condition:
A particularly sharp example. Boards clean and tight; pages fresh with no inscriptions or markings noted.
Dust jacket bright and unfaded, not price-clipped, and now protected in a removable archival sleeve.

A very presentable collector-grade copy of this Donato jacket issue — increasingly difficult to locate in this condition.

Photographs shown are of the exact copy offered.

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