The Hobbit Deluxe Illustrated by the Author

For the first time ever a beautiful slipcased edition of the enchanting prelude to  The Lord of the Rings illustrated throughout with over 50 sketches drawings paintings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien himself with the complete text printed in two colors and with many bonus features unique to this edition. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable unambitious life rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey “there and back again.” They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent a large and very dangerous dragon… Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children   The Hobbit  was published on 21 September 1937. With a beautiful cover design a handful of black & white drawings and two