The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
1988 Houghton Mifflin Edition, 4th Printing
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
ISBN: 0395282659
Trade paperback in dust-jacket
vi, 270 pp.
Cover illustration by Alan Lee
Illustrated by J.R.R. Tolkien
Hammond Page Ref.: p. 58
Notes
Typeset as for the Allen & Unwin 1978 Fourth Edition.
In use until at least the 17th Printing.
The Tolkien monogram was added to the top of the book’s spine for the 7th Printing (1991). The back cover of the dust-jacket for the 7th and 8th Printings carried the Tolkien Centenary Logo.
The runes on the front cover of the dust-jacket read (in order of top, bottom, right side, left side): ‘ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL, ONE RING TO FIND THEM, ONE RING TO BRING THEM ALL AND, IN THE DARKNESS BIND THEM’.
Jacket price: $7.95; $9.95 by the 7th Printing; $10.95 by the 11th Printing; $11.95 by the 16th Printing. Sold in a set with The Lord of the Rings.
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