JOHN RONALD REUEL TOLKIEN (1892-1973)

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JOHN RONALD REUEL TOLKIEN (1892-1973)
The Hobbit; or There and Back Again, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1942, 8°, AUTHOR'S COPY, SIGNED BY TOLKIEN on half title, EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED in ballpoint and pencil on pages 17, 27, 30, 31, 35, 53, 63, 64, 82, 85, 86, 87, 88. 89, 90, 91, 94, 95, 104, 210, 215, 240, 273, 294, frontispiece in colour, plates and illustrations by Tolkien, original green pictorial cloth.

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The author's corrections to a work first published in 1937 concern not only typographical errors but small points of phraseology, punctuation and, in one case, a date, which deviate from the text of the original edition. They are valuable in showing his eye for detail and the extent to which the work continued to live in his mind.

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