Second impression, in a price-clipped second-impression dust jacket.
Publisher and Year: London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1937
Edition: Second impression, in a price-clipped second-impression dust jacket (stated on the front flap). Printed in December 1937, just under three months after the first impression was published. For the second impression, the frontispiece was changed from black-and-white to full color, and three new color plates were added. Of the 2,300 copies that were printed, 423 were destroyed when the warehouse was bombed during the Blitz in November 1940. (Hammond & Anderson A3, p. 15)
Condition and Description: Octavo, 7.75” × 5”, publisher's light green cloth stamped in dark blue, green top stain, 310 pp. (+2 pp. ads). Illustrated by Tolkien with maps on the endpapers, a color frontispiece, three additional color plates, and nine black-and-white drawings. Cloth a little soiled, rubbed, and toned (especially at the extremities and spine). Stray ink mark to the lower spine. Spine ends a little frayed. Secure hinges and binding, though with several instances of over-opening, and the gutter at p. 96 is a little exposed. Smudge to the front pastedown. Crease to p. 17 and lower corner of p. 26. Light foxing to edges of the text block and the preliminary and terminal leaves. Interior pages largely free of foxing. Dust jacket toned (especially the spine, as usual) and with chipping to the spine crown and upper-left front panel; foxing; and a two-inch split to the bottom of the front fold and a half-inch split mid-fold. Housed in archival mylar and a custom clamshell case stamped in gilt.
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
The Hobbit established the blueprint for modern high fantasy. Upon publication, few would have suspected that the novel would have such a profound impact on literature. Seventeen years later, Tolkien published the first volume of The Lord of the Rings, another watershed moment in the genre.
Inventory ID: 008 - 892 - 303
Second impression, in a price-clipped second-impression dust jacket.
Publisher and Year: London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1937
Edition: Second impression, in a price-clipped second-impression dust jacket (stated on the front flap). Printed in December 1937, just under three months after the first impression was published. For the second impression, the frontispiece was changed from black-and-white to full color, and three new color plates were added. Of the 2,300 copies that were printed, 423 were destroyed when the warehouse was bombed during the Blitz in November 1940. (Hammond & Anderson A3, p. 15)
Condition and Description: Octavo, 7.75” × 5”, publisher's light green cloth stamped in dark blue, green top stain, 310 pp. (+2 pp. ads). Illustrated by Tolkien with maps on the endpapers, a color frontispiece, three additional color plates, and nine black-and-white drawings. Cloth a little soiled, rubbed, and toned (especially at the extremities and spine). Stray ink mark to the lower spine. Spine ends a little frayed. Secure hinges and binding, though with several instances of over-opening, and the gutter at p. 96 is a little exposed. Smudge to the front pastedown. Crease to p. 17 and lower corner of p. 26. Light foxing to edges of the text block and the preliminary and terminal leaves. Interior pages largely free of foxing. Dust jacket toned (especially the spine, as usual) and with chipping to the spine crown and upper-left front panel; foxing; and a two-inch split to the bottom of the front fold and a half-inch split mid-fold. Housed in archival mylar and a custom clamshell case stamped in gilt.
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
The Hobbit established the blueprint for modern high fantasy. Upon publication, few would have suspected that the novel would have such a profound impact on literature. Seventeen years later, Tolkien published the first volume of The Lord of the Rings, another watershed moment in the genre.
Inventory ID: 008 - 892 - 303
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