Tolkien, J.R.R. — The Hobbit: Or, There and Back Again.

New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1973. Second Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. As fine condition an exemplar of the reprint of the Second Edition Thus as will be found. Gift-quality condition, inside and out. Bound handsomely in a dark green leatherette over boards, decorated in and lettered in gilt and with red borders. Marbled page edges in green and white and with green endpapers and an illustrated title page. Augmented with five five full-color plates and another eight illustrations and including a two-page map of Middle Earth in tri-tone. Housed in an original slipcase, boards covered with the same green pebbly cloth, with a fine pasted-on illustration to front cover. [9], 10-319 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine