THE HOBBIT or There and Back Again.

First deluxe edition, first printing. Publisher's original quarter leather over brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine and a gilt labyrinth design by Jeff Clements to the upper board. Top edge brown. Housed in the original card slipcase. With map endpapers, a frontispiece and 12 colour plates by J. R. R. Tolkien, seven of which were coloured by H. E. Riddett. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the spine lightly rubbed. The contents, with a bookplate to the front blank page, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the structurally sound slipcase, which is a little rubbed to the extremities.

The first deluxe Folio Society edition of 'The Hobbit', set from the George Allen and Unwin deluxe edition, with the title page imprint 'George Allen & Unwin Ltd for The Folio Society'. (Hammond and Anderson A3o).