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The Hobbit: Rare first edition fetches £31k at auction

A rare first edition of JRR Tolkien’s 1937 novel The Hobbit has sold for £31,200 at auction.

The first impression copy is one of only 1,500 original pressings of the fantasy novel that went on to spawn Tolkien’s universe of Middle-Earth.

It was found in a chest of drawers at a home in Berkshire, where it had been left after being inherited.

The novel was sold by Kinghams Auctioneers in Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire, on Friday.


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