The Hobbit or There and Back Again.

TOLKIEN, J.R.R.

Item Number: 1970

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938.

First American edition with all first issue points present. Octavo, finely rebound in full morocco, with gilt titles and inlay to the front panel and spine. In fine condition. Map endpapers present.

"In enchanted Middle-earth, a small, comfort-loving Hobbit is awakened from his slumbers by a visitor who tells of lost treasure. Before Bilbo Baggins returns home again, he journeys past wizards and elves, talkative trees and treaure-guarding dragons, all swirling in cosmic battle between good and evil. J.R.R. Tolkien's fully realized fantasy world won over generations of children, and dazzled adults with its deft interweaving of medieval legend and made-up languages, maps, and creatures. Tolkien legitimized the modern fantasy genre, and provided the 1960's counterculture with antiwar, back-to-Eden icons" (NYPL Books of the Century 199).