TITLE:                The Annotated Hobbit

AUTHOR:            J.R.R. Tolkien

PUBLISHER:      Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston

DATE:                 1988

DESCRIPTION:

First Annotated Edition Hardcover w/Dust Jacket. Bright green cover boards quarter bound in blue with gilt letter spine, gold dragon decoration on cover. Orange end pages, b & w picture of Tolkien next to title page, size 9"x11". Illustrated throughout by Tolkien. Includes; Appendix A: Textual and Revisional Notes, Appendix B: On Runes and their Values, Bibliography and a Map of Wilderland. 317 numbered pages + notes. 

Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. 

CONDITION:

Dust Jacket: Very Good. Bright and colorful, though it is taped firmly to book. It seems the tape has kept the DJ in good shape.  Book: Very Good. Firm binding, clean pages with no rips or tears. 

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