The Hobbit (HB)
Author(s): J R R Tolkien
Sumptuous, oversized hardback edition of the classic adventure, fully illustrated with over 60 watercolour and pencil illustrations by award-winning artist, Alan Lee, Conceptual Designer on Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY. J.R.R. Tolkien's great classic work, The Hobbit, celebrated its 60th year of publication (1937) with a gorgeous illustrated edition by artist Alan Lee, winner of the Kate Greenaway medal for illustration, and creator of the fabulously successful Centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings. Containing 22 full colour illustrations depicting key scenes from this all-time classic (scenes such as Gollum and Bilbo, The Wargs, Smaug the Dragon and The Battle of the Five Armies), this beautifully designed volume also includes a wealth of integrated pencil drawings which demonstrate perfectly Alan's genius at work. Alan Lee's work on this book, as well as the illustrated Lord of the Rings, led to him being approached by Peter Jackson to join the film trilogy as Conceptual Artist. The same artistic vision, present in his beautiful paintings and drawings, played a major role in the look of the films, and his work received the ultimate accolade with an Academy Award for Best Art Direction on The Return of the King.
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Marking 70 years since publication, the definitive edition of JRR Tolkien's first book, sporting a facsimile of his original cover design and complete with fold-out maps and his own drawings and paintings. / The most successful of all Tolkien titles, 'The Hobbit' has been translated into almost 50 languages and sold over 100 million copies / Read by each new generation since publication in 1937 / Winner of the Keith Barker Millennium Book Award for most significant children's books of the century, as voted for by the Library Association: School Libraries and Youth Libraries Group, and the School Library Association / Contains newly reset and fully corrected definitive text, and packaged to match the definitive 50th anniversary Lord of the Rings editions and the new 'The Children of Hurin'. / Includes Tolkien's two-colour fold-out maps, black and white line drawings and colour paintings, which do not feature in current paperback editions. / The perfect gift edition -- in anticipation of the forthcoming Hobbit movie. / Publicity and marketing coverage will be extensive on the back of the launch of the new book 'Children of Hurin' published in April 07. Activity includes a newly designed consumer focused website www.tolkien.co.uk, online promotions and 3rd party partnerships.
Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 and The BBC Big Read Top 21 2003. Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.
'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. Its place is with Alice and The Wind in the Willows.' Times Literary Supplement 'One of the best loved characters in English fiction! a marvellous fantasy adventure' Daily Mail 'Finely written saga of dwarves and elves, fearsome goblins and trolls! an exciting epic of travel, magical adventure, working up to a devastating climax' The Observer
J.R.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays. His books have been translated into 50 languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide. The Children of Hurin was published for the first time in 2007.
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers
- : Tolkien GB
- : 0.52
- : 31 October 1995
- : 228mm X 149mm
- : 01 November 1995
- : books
Special Fields
- : Colour and black & white
- : FM
- : 320
- : very good
- : 741.5/973
- : English
- : Hardback with dustjacket
- : J R R Tolkien