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Ribbon marker. xxxix, 272, [ii] pp., complete text printed in two colours throughout. Illustrated with over fifty sketches, drawings, paintings and maps by the author. Accompanied by \u003cem\u003eMathoms: A Treasury of Writings\u003c\/em\u003e, an 88-page illustrated booklet with essays by contributing authors, bound in green cloth; two poster-sized fold-out maps of Thror's Map and Wilderland; and a printed art card reproducing Tolkien's original dust jacket painting. Housed in custom-built green cloth slipcase. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition thus. Illustrated by the author.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hobbit\u003c\/em\u003e was published on the twenty-first of September 1937, written for Tolkien's own children and never originally intended for audience in the wider world. That it found a substantial one is one of the great accidents of twentieth-century literary history. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis 2023 deluxe edition marks the first time the complete range of Tolkien's own artwork for the book has been gathered within its pages: not simply the finished paintings and drawings familiar from earlier editions, but the full breadth of his creative process — preliminary sketches, coloured drawings, and cartographic studies that have previously appeared only in exhibition catalogues and scholarly publications. The result is the most visually comprehensive edition of the text yet produced, and the one that comes closest to revealing the imaginative world Tolkien himself inhabited as he wrote.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe edition matches HarperCollins's ongoing series of deluxe Tolkien volumes and is accompanied by the \u003cem\u003eMathoms\u003c\/em\u003e booklet — a treasury of contextual writings by scholars and admirers of the book — and by two poster-sized fold-out maps and a facsimile of Tolkien's original dust jacket design. 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In original publisher's slipcase. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst Folio Society impression\u003c\/strong\u003e — the true first, the later 1979 maroon-boards edition being the second impression despite its frequent misdescription in the trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Folio Society's 1976 Hobbit occupies a singular position in the bibliography of Tolkien's most beloved work. Published the year following Tolkien's death, this first Folio Society edition draws directly on the sheets of Allen \u0026amp; Unwin's deluxe edition of the same year, as well as retaining the author's own original illustrations. However, the binding, with its gilt labyrinthine design by Jeff Clements, is among the handsomest Tolkien has received from any publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA very good copy in a very good slipcase.\u003c\/strong\u003e Some light scuffing to the leather corners and normal shelf wear to the slipcase exterior, as one expects of a working copy that has spent half a century in a good library. Contents fine and free from any markings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. 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