TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Hobbit or There and Back Again.

TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Hobbit or There and Back Again. Frontispiece and 9 other illustrations in black-and-white by Tolkien. 8vo, original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and both boards in blue, cocked, tips and 1/4-inch segment of bottom rear edge rubbed with loss, few small soil marks; top edge stained green but faded, owners' ink signatures on blank and a longer one on half-title. first edition, first impression. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1937