The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
2007 70th Anniversary Edition
Houghton Mifflin Company (Reset)
Boston / New York
ISBN-10: 0618968636
ISBN-13: 9780618968633
Hardcover in dust-jacket
xx, 300
Illustrated by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien Collector Ref.: Issue no. 27, p. 20
Notes
Reset; typeset as for the HarperCollins 2007 70th Anniversary Edition. Jacket blurbs differ slightly.
First Printing: September 21, 2007
At least twenty-two printings (2021) issued and is available new.
Beginning with the 11th? Printing (September 2012), a medallion with the statement “1937-2012 75th ANNIVERSARY” was added to the dust-jacket’s front cover.
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 GEORGE ALLEN AND UNWIN LTD’. The incorrect publisher’s name was corrected to ‘HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND CO‘ for the 19th Printing of the 1963 Second Edition but is left uncorrected on this edition.
Includes Chapter One from The Lord of the Rings.
Jacket price: $25.00; $26.00 by the 22nd Printing. Sold in a set with Mr. Baggins and Return to Bag-End.
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