En cours de chargement...
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...
This enhanced de luxe edition includes the complete text together with a 20-page foreword by Christopher Tolkien, and has the following special features : Illustrated with more than 50 full-colour paintings, maps, drawings and designs by the author, many appearing here for the first time. Mathoms, an exclusive 88-page booklet illustrated in colour compiling a short history of the writing and publication of The Hobbit plus all six surviving pages of the earliest manuscript, together with associated works, including J.R.R.
Tolkien's poem, "The Hoard", and his 1938 lecture on Dragons. Large posters which fold out to reveal in colour Thror's Map and the map of Wilderland, both of which are drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien. Removable facsimile artefact of Thorin's letter to Bilbo, written in tengwar by J.R.R. Tolkien. Removable reproduction of J.R.R. Tolkien's dustjacket art, printed in colour on heavy card and annotated on the reverse.
Definitive version of the text printed in two colours on heavyweight acid-free paper, and including a ribbon marker. Quarter-bound in green leather and black cloth with raised spine ribs, stamped in three foils with the author's Misty Mountains and Smaug designs, and pages edged in gold gilt. Housed in a custom-built slipcase bound in green cloth and stamped in gold foil, with circular die-cut revealing the Misty Mountains device.