The Hobbit or There and Back Again. London: George Allen, 1966. Third Edition, Sixteenth Impression. Green cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. Jacket is chipped with a loss to head of spine, price-clipped; otherwise a nice bright copy.

Illustrated in black and white and with coloured plates by the author.

Tolkien’s prelude to ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ in which the true significance of Bilbo’s success in riddles, and the nature of Gollum’s ‘Precious’ is revealed.