Title: The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again Author: Tolkien, J.R.R. Place: London Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Date: 1937 Description: 310 pp. 10 illustrations by the author, including frontispiece; original map endpapers bound in at rear. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf in full black morocco, gilt tooled, and with on-lays in many colors, front and rear covers each jeweled with 10 red stones within the borders and single white jewels within the central designs, a third white jewel adorns the spine, silk moiré end leaves, gilt-rolled board edges, all page edges gilt. On the front cover, in a cave-fortress drawn in gilt, a sinuous red dragon guards piles of treasure surmounted by a radiant pearl (presumably representing the Arkenstone of Thrain). On the rear cover the Hobbit approaches the treasure, holding a torch and a pearl. Both covers have on-laid maroon and green borders decorated with Celtic interlace and lozenges in gilt, with 10 red jewels on small yellow floral on-lays. The spine, in six compartments separated by gilt tooled raised bands, shows four colored labels adorned with butterfly, spider, sword and dragon gilt tooling and a third white jewel. The full morocco front and rear doublures are bordered, titled, and accented in gilt, created in an intricate mosaic of many colored on-laid morocco depicting two imaginary landscapes from the book, "Rivendell" and "Mirkwood". Housed in a velvet-lined book-style drop-back case of full morocco, titled in gilt on spine. First Edition, First Printing. An important association copy, inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: "To Stella Mills, from her old friend, J.R.R. Tolkien." Stella Marie Mills was a student of Tolkien and E.V. Gordon at Leeds and she later edited and translated "The Saga of Hrolf Kraki" an Icelandic or Viking epic which was published by Oxford University Press in 1933. Her translation lent much to Tolkien's Hobbit and Lord of The Rings Trilogy and was in fact dedicated to Tolkien. Ms. Mills remained close friends with the Tolkien family throughout her life. Lot Amendments Condition: A few minor indentations to surface of case; fine. Item number: 203375
Title: The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again Author: Tolkien, J.R.R. Place: London Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Date: 1937 Description: 310 pp. 10 illustrations by the author, including frontispiece; original map endpapers bound in at rear. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf in full black morocco, gilt tooled, and with on-lays in many colors, front and rear covers each jeweled with 10 red stones within the borders and single white jewels within the central designs, a third white jewel adorns the spine, silk moiré end leaves, gilt-rolled board edges, all page edges gilt. On the front cover, in a cave-fortress drawn in gilt, a sinuous red dragon guards piles of treasure surmounted by a radiant pearl (presumably representing the Arkenstone of Thrain). On the rear cover the Hobbit approaches the treasure, holding a torch and a pearl. Both covers have on-laid maroon and green borders decorated with Celtic interlace and lozenges in gilt, with 10 red jewels on small yellow floral on-lays. The spine, in six compartments separated by gilt tooled raised bands, shows four colored labels adorned with butterfly, spider, sword and dragon gilt tooling and a third white jewel. The full morocco front and rear doublures are bordered, titled, and accented in gilt, created in an intricate mosaic of many colored on-laid morocco depicting two imaginary landscapes from the book, "Rivendell" and "Mirkwood". Housed in a velvet-lined book-style drop-back case of full morocco, titled in gilt on spine. First Edition, First Printing. An important association copy, inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: "To Stella Mills, from her old friend, J.R.R. Tolkien." Stella Marie Mills was a student of Tolkien and E.V. Gordon at Leeds and she later edited and translated "The Saga of Hrolf Kraki" an Icelandic or Viking epic which was published by Oxford University Press in 1933. Her translation lent much to Tolkien's Hobbit and Lord of The Rings Trilogy and was in fact dedicated to Tolkien. Ms. Mills remained close friends with the Tolkien family throughout her life. Lot Amendments Condition: A few minor indentations to surface of case; fine. Item number: 203375
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