Tolkien (J.R.R.)

The Hobbit,
first edition, second impression, colour frontispiece, 4 plates including 3 colour, 8 illustrations, some full-page, map endpapers, 2pp. advertisements, slight damp staining with some pages slightly ‘rippled’, original pictorial cloth, small slight wear at base of spine and ‘shelf’ identification on spine, otherwise a good copy, facsimile dust-jacket,1937; Another copy, 24th impression (10th impression of the 3rd edition), original decorated boards, original dust-jacket slightly worn at extremities, 1975, 8vo. (2)