To read this book is to rediscover The Hobbit all over again. True blue lovers of Tolkien will find in its pages enrichment and satisfaction for a hundred rainy afternoons. The new ISBN was stated on a barcode sticker affixed to the dust-jacket’s back cover (the copyright page still shows the ISBN from the 1988 edition). Rather, The Annotated Hobbit is an exemplary volume that you hold close to you, keeping it over the years as a keepsake. *A different ISBN (0517029359) was used (by Random House Value Publishing) for remaindered copies of this edition that were sold at a discounted price from January, 1990. The annotations, in green ink and pencil, demonstrate how real his creation was in Tolkien’s mind: Hobbiton is assumed to be approx at latitude of Oxford, he wrote. It will also have alternative text and draft information from the author.

TOLKIEN AND PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND CO’. The Annotated Hobbit will include all sorts of notes about the book and the places and names that are found in it.

There are also illustrations from many of the hundreds editions of The Hobbit from many lands. His landscapes and colors are eye-catching. Perhaps the most significant are those done by Tolkien himself. The runes bordering the dust-jacket read: ‘THE HOBBIT OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN BEING THE RECORD OF A YEARS JOURNEY MADE BY BILBO BAGGINS OF HOBBITON COMPILED FROM HIS MEMOIRS BY J.R.R. The Annotated Hobbit has many illustrations. Additionally, the back cover of the jacket has a book club number (14652) and the book is bound in dark blue paper as opposed to the green paper and blue cloth spine used for the trade edition. It can be distinguished from the trade edition by differences to the copyright page (some lack a number line, others have a number line starting at ‘9’ as opposed to ‘ M 10‘) and the lack of a price/ISBN on the dust-jacket’s front flap (some copies also state ‘ Book Club Edition‘ on the bottom of the front flap). Text proper typeset as for the Houghton Mifflin 1967 Third Edition. Reprints the original First Edition text from Chapter 5: Riddles in the Dark and several of Tolkien’s early poems.Ī Book Club Edition was published in October, 1989.

The hobbit annotated