The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, 1990 UK Deluxe Edition

Published by Unwin Hyman, First Published in 1976, 5th impression, 1990

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.

ISBN 0048231274.
A beautiful copy of the Unwin Hyman De Luxe Edition of The Hobbit.
This copy is the 5th impression, published in 1990, of the 1st De Luxe Edition of 1976, with the Tolkien line drawings colorized by H. E. Riddett.

This book is housed in a publishers slipcase.
Bound in black buckram cloth, with gilt artwork on the front boards of tolkien's 'Green Dragon" gilt stamped in red, silver & gold.
Gilt ruled compartments with Title, Author, and publisher on the spines.
An exceptional copy for the collector.

No names, writing or faults noted in the book.
White page edges. Numerous full page colour illustrations by J.R.R. Tolkien throughout.
Maps are used as the endpapers; in previous impressions, they are bound in.
The book comes in the original slipcase, which has some corner bumps and smudges on one side.
The 5th impression differs from the previous editions with white page edges and no green speckles. Additionally, it starts and ends with a map, unlike the green endpapers of the 4th impression or the black marbled pages of earlier impressions.

Overall a Near Fine copy of this wonderful book.

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