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The Annotated Hobbit First Printing 1988 | Tolkien 0395476909
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The Annotated Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. First printing, 1988 Houghton Mifflin edition. Hardcover in dust jacket, ISBN 0395476909. Annotated by Douglas A. Anderson. True first printing with full number line.

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The Annotated Hobbit — First Printing, 1988


The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Annotated by Douglas A. Anderson.
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1988.

First printing of the First Annotated Edition, with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 present on the copyright page, confirming true first printing status (October 28, 1988; initial print run 30,000 copies).

Hardcover in original publisher’s binding of green paper boards with blue cloth spine, lettered in silver, complete with the original illustrated dust jacket priced $24.95 to the front flap (thus not a Book Club Edition).

This important scholarly edition reproduces the original 1937 first edition text of Chapter 5: Riddles in the Dark, together with extensive annotations by Douglas A. Anderson. The volume includes numerous illustrations and reproductions, and the main text is typeset following the Houghton Mifflin 1967 Third Edition setting. The decorative runic border printed on the dust jacket reads:
“THE HOBBIT OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN BEING THE RECORD OF A YEARS JOURNEY MADE BY BILBO BAGGINS OF HOBBITON COMPILED FROM HIS MEMOIRS BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN AND PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND CO”.

ISBN 0-395-47690-9.

Condition:
A very solid and well-preserved copy. The dust jacket remains bright with only light edge wear and minor rubbing at the spine ends. The boards are clean, binding firm, and the pages fresh and unmarked. No ownership inscriptions are visible in the photographed opening pages. Overall a Very Good+ example of this increasingly collectible first printing.

Photographs shown are of the exact copy offered.

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