THE HOBBIT, Or There and Back Again.

First edition with this new binding design, first printing. Publisher's original red paper covered boards with illustration and decoration in green and gilt, housed in the original slipcase. Illustrated with superb black and white illustrations by Eric Fraser. Endpapers after the original drawings by J. R. R. Tolkien. A near fine copy, the binding square, firm and fresh, with some fading to the spine. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed, structurally sound slipcase, as issued.

Eric Fraser's illustrations for The Hobbit were first published by the Folio Society in 1979 and are re-issued in this new Francis Mosley designed binding for the first time.