The Hobbit Facsimile Gift Edition series-The Mismantle Chronicles Nebula and Locus Award-winning author

Nebula and Locus Award-winning author of Spinning Silver

Uncorrected Proofs issued in late 1992 in advance of the March 1993 publication of the first US edition

this illustrated edition has been revised and expanded

And his dream

Though their marriage might have been a sham

The Hobbit Facsimile Gift Edition series-The Mismantle Chronicles Nebula and Locus Award-winning authorThis sumptuous gift set includes a replica of the very rare first edition of The Hobbit, the only edition where one can now read the original version of the story before Tolkien re edited it to become the one enjoyed by readers since 1951. The Hobbit was published on 21 September 1937, with a print run of 1,500 copies. With a beautiful cover design, nearly a dozen black & white illustrations and two black & red maps by the author himself, the book