The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
1985 ‘Fourth’ Edition, 40th Printing (Reset)
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
ISBN-10: 0395071224*
ISBN-13: 9780395071229
Hardcover in dust-jacket
256 pp.
Illustrated by J.R.R. Tolkien
Hammond Page Ref.: p. 60
Notes
Reset, revised; typeset as for the Allen & Unwin 1978 Fourth Edition.
In use until at least the 71st Printing and is available new.
The color of the binding (light green at first) was changed to blue for the 52nd Printing and again to dark green for the 61st Printing. With the first change, the dark blue lettering on the boards was altered to silver.
The runes bordering the dust-jacket read: ‘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’.
Jacket price: $13.95; $14.95 (44th Printing); $16.00 (after the 54th but no later than the 56th Printing); $16.99 (after the 60th but no later than the 63rd Printing); $18.99 (after the 68th but no later than the 71st Printing). The 55th Printing lacked a printed price.
*The 2000 Science Fiction Book Club Edition was also issued with the dust-jacket (unpriced) from this edition.
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