TOLKIEN, JOHN RONALD REUEL. The Hobbit or there and back Again. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1937. 2 maps, frontispiece and 9 plates. 8vo, A JEWELLED BINDING WITH 23 STONES BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE, dark blue levant morocco, covers with gilt ruled stylized floral borders enclosing onlaid burgundy morocco gilt border with onlaid brown morocco rosettes set with 20 fire opals, central panel of upper cover with various morocco onlays showing the dragon Smaug asleep on a pile of gold and treasure in his lair, behind him another pile of gold with the Arkenstone at top, shown as an inset pearl; central panel of lower cover with various morocco onlays showing Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit standing at the pile of gold and treasure holding the Arkenstone, again shown as an inset pearl, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, two compartments in onlaid green morocco, two in onlaid red morcco, and two in blue morocco, gilt-lettered in two compartments, gilt emblem of a spider in two compartments, an emblem of a butterfly in another, with a pearl set in another, bands gilt with alternating dragon, holly and sword motifs, g.e., board edges gilt-ruled, upper doublure with a stylized floral gilt border enclosing large central panel with various morocco onlays showing the valley of Riverdell, the legend "Riverdell" gilt at bottom; lower doublure with a stylized floral gilt border enclosing a large central panel with various morocco onlays showing the forest of Mirkwood, the legend "Mirkwood" gilt at bottom, dark blue watered silk linings; dark blue morocco folding case.