The Hobbit or, There and Back Again.

FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, 8 full-page illustrations, a further text illustration, all by the author, pp. 310, [2, ads], crown 8vo, original pale green cloth, the lettering to backstrip and upper board stamped in dark blue, likewise Tolkien's overall designs to cloth, lean to spine, a tiny amount of wear at extremities, a couple of very faint scuffs or handling marks to cloth, the top edge green now faded, endpaper maps printed in black and red, ownership inscription to flyleaf, this also to initial blank above a contemporary gift inscription, bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, rear free endpaper with faint vertical crease, very good