The Hobbit or There and Back Again. Illustrated by the Author. London: Allen & Unwin, 1979. De Luxe Edition, Second Impression. Publisher’s black buckram cloth boards, with gilt artwork on the front boards, depicting Tolkien’s ‘Green Dragon’, gilt stamped in red, silver & gold. Pale mottle marks to upper cover, school prize bookplate to half-title. Housed in original presentation box.

Notable illustrations feature Hobbiton-across-the Water, the Misty Mountains, Rivendell, and Thror’s Map (with Elvish script).

The first De Luxe Edition was issued in 1976, with the Tolkien line drawings coloured by H. E. Riddett.