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1976. 'Hardback'. 'Good'. '1979 Second Impression. Good condition. There are scuffs to the edges and corners of the cover as well as some light scuffs to the faces. There are marks to the page edges and a tear to the bottom corner of the copyright page. Otherwise in very good condition with pages crisp and clean.'

9X5.5. Small book plate on free endpaper, illustrated endpapers, full color frontis piece, includes slipcase, rubbing to bottom edge of spine, gold gilt lettering on spine and gold gilt inlay on cover. De-Luxe Edition. The George Allen De-Luxe Edition, printed for the Folio Society. This is in the brown quarter leather binding, with brown open weave cloth sides (not red as in the later edition). In slip-case. Couple of very light scuff marks to spine, else fine, in a slipcase which is fine apart from slight wear on bottom edge and at the rear corner. Scans available on request. Size: 8vo. _PAB_

The Hobbit, 1976 Folio 1st Impression, with the title page showing the George Allen & Unwin imprint and the verso shows the full Allen & Unwin print history. This is one of the two variants of the first Folio Society edition of The Hobbit. The book is in Near Fine condition without any scrapes or scuffs on the spine. The textblock is clean and bright, Near Fine in condition. The slipcase has protected the book well over the years. So this is the true 1st printing of the 1st Folio Edition, with the Folio 1979 maroon colored edition being the 2nd printing of the Folio edition (per Hammond). Lacking the Folio title page, this book is internally identical to the 1976 A&U Deluxe edition! Per Hammond, the Folio Society was to take the Deluxe edition papers and remove certain pages from the beginning (title page, copyright pg, etc) and replace them with the Folio pages. However, some very few of the books were bound by the Folio Society with all of the original Deluxe pages included and not replaced with Folio pages, but with the binding being the Folio format. Very Scarce indeed! Gilt is still bright and untarnished on this book, lacking the normal scrapes and scuffing to the leather on the spine. Very unusual and hard to find. Additional digital photo's available, inquire if interested. Other Tolkien books available, include both the UK and US editions, original cloth bindings, custom fine bindings, and Signed/Numbered/Limited Editions.