The Hobbit Illustrated by the Author by Tolkien J R R (96 results)

Condition: NEW.

HRD. Condition: Used - Very Good. Tolkien, J. R. R. (illustrator). Used - Like New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. Michael Hague (illustrator). 2023. hardcover. . . . . .

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Tolkien, J. R. R. (illustrator). New. Still ink shrink wrap. An exceptional copy. 2023 Hard Cover. 432 pp. For the first time ever, a special enhanced edition of the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated throughout with over 50 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien himself and with the complete text printed in two colors. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey 'there and back again.' They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon . . . Written for J.R.R. Tolkien's own children, The Hobbit was published on 21 September 1937. With a beautiful cover design, a handful of black & white drawings and two maps by the author himself, the book became an instant success and was reprinted shortly afterwards with five color plates. Tolkien's own selection of finished paintings and drawings have become inseparable from his text, adorning editions of The Hobbit for more than 85 years. But the published art has afforded only a glimpse of Tolkien's creative process, and many additional sketches, colored drawings and maps - although exhibited and published elsewhere - have never appeared within the pages of The Hobbit. In this unique enhanced edition of Tolkien's enchanting classic tale, the full panoply of his art is reproduced for the first time, presenting more than 50 illustrations to accompany Bilbo Baggins on his adventure 'there and back again.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Tolkien, J. R. R. (illustrator). First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean unread unused unopened copy. This copy still in publisher's original shrink wrap. Thor's map and Wilderland map laid in as issued. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. Book.

Condition: As New. Tolkien, J. R. R. (illustrator). Unread book in perfect condition.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The top edge is tanned. The slipcase shows some minor shelf wear, but the copy is in otherwise very good condition. 50th anniversary edition.

Hardcover. pp. 317, [2]. Square 8vo. Bound in full textured green "leatherette" blocked in gilt, and red with like lettering to the spine; marbled edges, green endpapers. Illustatted with full-page colour plates by Tolkien, and various in-text illustrations. Neat ink name to the margin of the ffep, else, exceptionally well-preserved; fine and housed in fine like slipcase with title appearing in black on right panel over original illustrated bright-yellow paper pastedown. A lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: New. ISBN:9780008627836 N.A.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. First Printing. A Fine copy in decorated green paper covered boards, all edges stained blue with script decoration, in a Fine green dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 272pp. With 51 Illustrations in text, with two maps folded and laid in. A very attractive re-issue of Tolkien's classic, first published in 1937. Q19843.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Third Edition; Fourth Printing. Tight square unmarked book in green cloth with black illustration. The still bright and crisp dust jacket has a three inch damp stain visible only on the reverse side; unmarked mapped endpapers. All of the pages are clean crisp and bright (even the edges remain undarkened) . "20s net" on the unclipped dust jacket. 14 illustrations by the author. ; 317 pages.

Hardcover. Octavo, green cloth binding with gilt titles to spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket. An excellent 1970's vintage edition of this beloved fantasy novel. Slight toning to pages and to white areas of dust jacket else a very nice copy.

17th impression [being Third impression of third edition.] George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1967. Hardback , WITH DW. Colour frontis. + black and white illustrations throughout. + Maps to endpapers. 317 pages. Board margins and spine lightly sunned. Pages are slightly browned o/w very clean with no ownership inscriptions. Wrapper spine and top margins of front and rear panels are browned and extremities only very slightly worn. Overall a lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, Museum Street, 1937, FIRST Edition, Second Impression. Full coarse grain morocco green leather binding, with gilt titles and decoration, and five raised bands to the spine, gilt dragon to the gilt ruled front board, inner gilt rules to the leather turn-ins to the paste downs. With the original end papers bound in on to new paper (curling slightly), pages tanned with some foxing marks (see images), with some historically folded corners. Illustrated. Full dark green morocco housed in a green half leather clamshell box. First colour-illustrated edition, preceded only by the first edition, first impression. Only 2,300 copies were printed of this second impression, of which 423 copies in sheets were destroyed in the London blitz in 1940. The first impression of 1,500 copies had been published in September 1937 and had sold out by December. The coloured illustrations "had been commissioned for the first American edition, and were in the American publisher's hands when Allen & Unwin decided to include them in the second impression. The original art was called back for reproduction in Britain, then returned across the Atlantic" (Hammond & Anderson p. 15). Pagination: 310, [2]pp of adverts. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates Approximately 8 ¾ inches (22cm) tall (box), 7 ½ inches (19cm) tall (book). Condition Report Externally Spine fine condition bright and clean with gilt titles, five raised bands and gilt decoration to the base. Joints fine condition sound. Corners fine condition. Boards fine condition gilt dragon to the front board and gilt ruled border to both boards. Page edges fine condition all edges gilt. Binding very good condition attractive. See above and photos. Internally Hinges fine condition sound. Paste downs fine condition gilt ruled leather turn-ins. End papers very good condition new end papers with original map end papers mounted on to paper and curling, minor marks and foxing. Title good condition gently tanned. Pages good condition with some marks, and historically folded corners and some foxing throughout. See photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, Museum Street, 1958, Second Edition, Fourth Impression or Eighth Impression Overall. Full coarse grain morocco green leather binding, with gilt titles to a red label on the spine, two gilt lined raised bands, gilt decoration to the base of the spine, gilt dragon to the front board, gilt flag decoration to the rear board. With the original end papers bound in, the end papers tanned with some stains to the rear paste down, pages tanned with some marks (see images), with some historically folded corners. Illustrated. Full dark green morocco housed in a green cloth slipcase. Pagination: 315pp. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates Approximately 7 ½ inches tall (book), 8 inches tall (slipcase). Condition Report Externally Spine fine condition bright and clean with gilt titles to a red label and flag decorations. Joints fine condition sound. Corners fine condition. Boards fine condition gilt dragon to the front board and gilt flag to the rear board. Page edges good condition tanned and darkened. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition sound. Paste downs good condition original, minor marks and foxing. End papers good condition original, minor marks and foxing. Title good condition gently tanned. Pages good condition with some marks, and historically folded corners. Binding very good condition attractive. See photos.

Condition: Fine. 317 pp., original gilt stamped decorated full green leather, a.e.g., moire endpapers, an unsigned, embossed Easton Press bookplate to rear endpaper else fine. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

London, Guild Publishing, 1987, in-8, legatura editoriale in piena tela verde, sovraccoperta illustrata (uguale a quella della prima edizione, ideata da Tolkien stesso), con fascetta rossa del cinquantesimo anniversario pp. 255, [1]. Con illustrazioni in nero n.t.e a colori su tavole fuori testo. Ottime condizioni.