HOBBIT
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: November 12, 1972
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780345215321
Subjects: Non-Classifiable; Nonfiction - General
First sentence: In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty diry wet hole, filled with ends of worms and an oozy smell...
Description: IN this delightful and enthralling tale, J. R. R. Tolkien first created the imperishable world of fantasy called Middle-earth and those charming, lilliputian creatures—the Hobbits, whose adventures are continued in "The Lord of the Rings."                                 
"The Hobbit belongs to a very small class of books which have nothing in common save that each admits us to a world of its own-a world that seems to have been going on before we stumbled into it but which, once found by the right reader, becomes indispensable to him. Its place is with 'Alice in Wonderland' and "The Wind in The Willows"... Prediction is dangerous but 'The Hobbit' may well prove a classic.'             —London Times Literary Supplement *BALLANTINTE BOOKS IS THE  PAPERBOUND PUBLISHER   OF THE  AUTHORIZED   EDITION OF "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings".
Notes: A STATEMENT FROM THE AUTHOR "THIS PAPERBACK EDITION, AND NO OTHER has been published my consent and co-operation. Those who approve of courtesy (at least) to living authors purchase it, and no other. JRR Tolkien