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Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
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For more than half a century readers have journeyed alongside Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, and his nephew Frodo inThe Lord of the Rings.
Bilbo Baggins is a reasonably typical hobbit: fond of sleeping, eating, drinking, parties and presents. However, it is his destiny to travel to the dwarflands in the east, to help slay the dragon Smaug. His quest takes him through enchanted forests, spiders’ lairs, and under the Misty Mountains, where he comes across the vile Gollum, and tricks him out of his ’Precious’ - a ring that makes its bearer invisible, and wields a terrible power of its own.
This edition is bound in parchment cloth blocked in gold, with an inset label showing Smaug the dragon. It contains 19 black-and-white illustrations by the great Eric Fraser, and endpapers printed in red and black ink, showing Thrór’s Map and Wilderland.
‘One of the best children’s stories of the century’
- W. H. Auden
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Just a wonderful book to look at and read.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Beautiful book... binding is good quality, illustrations are crisply rendered. Something to treasure and have for future generations.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 4
The perfect edition to own.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
One is never tired of reading The Hobbit, and this edition adds verve.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Excellent present for our Grandson
Quality: 5
Value for money: 4
One of my favourite books and am so happy to have it in such a beautiful edition. Magic!
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Thank you
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
A nice edition of a well thumbed favourite.
Value for money: 3
This book was slightly damaged when I received it but was quickly replaced. Excellent book.
Quality: 3
Value for money: 4
Very special edition. Love the smaller than usual size, adds to the feeling of having a little jewel in your hand
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
I love that the illustrations accompanied the importance of the hobbit’s travels
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
This books is simply astonishingly beautiful I’d recommend it to anyone with the finances needed to buy it
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Wonderful item, very happy!
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
A beautiful edition of a timeless classic.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Splendid edition
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Purchased this for my granddaughter. She loves it! Her first Folio
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Amazing, worthy
Quality: 5
Value for money: 3
A nice complement to our LOTR trilogy from Folio (it's done in the same style)
Quality: 5
Value for money: 5
Extremely pretty books and excellent quality.
Quality: 5
Value for money: 4