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The adventures of the well-to-do hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who lived happily in his comfortable home until a wandering wizard granted his wish.
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‘One of the best loved characters in English fiction... a marvellous fantasy adventure’
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‘Finely written saga of dwarves and elves, fearsome goblins and trolls... an exciting epic of travel, magical adventure, working up to a devastating climax’
The Observer
‘A flawless masterpiece’
The Times
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An enduring Tolkien classic now available for the first time on CD. Superb characterisation of all Tolkien’s characters from Martin Shaw
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The Hobbit Or There and Back Again
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Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1977
ISBN 10: 0810910608
ISBN 13: 9780810910607
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No DJ. Rubbing and wear to edges/corners of boards. Hinges starting to become slightly loose, still fully intact. Light foxing to first few and last few pages. Inner pages clean and unmarked. BP/Locked cabinet. Seller Inventory # ABE-1717011511595
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Large Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First thus. No loss from Smaug overlays on clear acetate jacket (common with this edition). Front hinge just beginning to weaken, edges a bit foxed, minor wear to corners. 1976 Large Hardcover. 220 pp. Color maps and illustrations from the animated film, including several fold-outs. Clear acetate jacket with Smaug and white titles super-imposed over pictorial boards. The classic prelude to The Lord of the Rings. "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a 'little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves.' He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, 'looking for someone to share in an adventure,' Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit's doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure. The dwarves' goal is to return to their ancestral home in the Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug. Along the way, they and their reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile elves, ravening wolves--and, most perilous of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a riddling contest. It is from this life-or-death game in the dark that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, would eventually spring. Though The Hobbit is lighter in tone than the trilogy that follows, it has, like Bilbo Baggins himself, unexpected iron at its core. Don't be fooled by its fairy-tale demeanor; this is very much a story for adults, though older children will enjoy it, too. By the time Bilbo returns to his comfortable hobbit-hole, he is a different person altogether, well primed for the bigger adventures to come--and so is the reader. Seller Inventory # 2344360
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The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again
Seller: Lost Books, AUSTIN, TX, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hard cover. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. Good in good dust jacket. Shelf wear to jacket. Mild edge wear to covers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # Alibris.0015721
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The Hobbit: An Illustrated Edition
Seller: Pistil Books Online, IOBA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Oversize Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Rankin, Arthur; Bass, Jules (illustrator). A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 11 1/2"w x 10 7/8"h. Large format, 220 pages with huge full color illustrations throughout. Art by Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass from the film with two triple fold-outs! Scuffing at endpapers. Clear plastic dust jacket has some taped tears and missing bits at top of spine. Keywords: Bilbo Baggins, Middle Earth, Smaug Dragon, Arthur Rankin Jr, Jules Bass, Gandalf Wizard, Animated Film, Lonely Mountain, Illustrated Edition, Harry Abrams, Lord of the Rings, Rankin Bass 2. Seller Inventory # 159828
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Large Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First thus. Near fine in very good jacket. Minimal loss from front jacket titles, Smaug overlays completely intact. 1976 Large Hardcover. 220 pp. Color maps and illustrations from the animated film, including several fold-outs. Clear acetate jacket with Smaug and white titles super-imposed over pictorial boards. The classic prelude to The Lord of the Rings. "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a 'little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves.' He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, 'looking for someone to share in an adventure,' Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit's doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure. The dwarves' goal is to return to their ancestral home in the Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug. Along the way, they and their reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile elves, ravening wolves--and, most perilous of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a riddling contest. It is from this life-or-death game in the dark that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, would eventually spring. Though The Hobbit is lighter in tone than the trilogy that follows, it has, like Bilbo Baggins himself, unexpected iron at its core. Don't be fooled by its fairy-tale demeanor; this is very much a story for adults, though older children will enjoy it, too. By the time Bilbo returns to his comfortable hobbit-hole, he is a different person altogether, well primed for the bigger adventures to come--and so is the reader. Seller Inventory # 2344361
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The Hobbit Or There and Back Again
Seller: DeckleEdge LLC, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Like New. Like new with the transparent dragon dust jacket. Seller Inventory # CB141
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The Hobbit Or There and Back Again
Seller: Toscana Books, AUSTIN, TX, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: new. Excellent Condition.Excels in customer satisfaction, prompt replies, and quality checks. Seller Inventory # Scanned0810910608