The Hobbit (50th Anniversary edition)

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The Hobbit (50th Anniversary edition)
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AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
Foreword byChristopher Tolkien
IllustratorJ.R.R. Tolkien
PublisherLondon: Unwin Hyman
Released1987
FormatHardback in dustwrapper
Pages256
ISBN0048233862

The Hobbit (50th Anniversary edition) is an edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit published in 1987, featuring a new Foreword by Christopher Tolkien. Included in the Foreword are reminiscences by Christopher of his father, and reproductions of two pages from the manuscript of The Hobbit, together with six further illustrations and several extracts from letters written by J.R.R. Tolkien.[1]

A similar edition was published in the same year by Guild Publishing.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Hobbit. 1987 (Unwin Hyman edition)", TolkienBooks.net (accessed 1 September 2012)
  2. ↑ "The Hobbit. 1987 (Guild edition)", TolkienBooks.net (accessed 1 September 2012)
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