Hobbithunter

One year ahead: the 75th Anniversary Edition of The Hobbit. We all know that The Hobbit was born September 21,  1937.
Is HarperCollins afraid, that this edition would go down in all the buzz at the end of 2012?

Paperback, first print thus, cover based on the original drawing of Tolkien’s. Illustrations in b&w by Tolkien.

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If you are interested in a brend new copy of the Marathi translation of The Hobbit, click on cover and you will go to my webshop HOBBITHUNTER BOOKSHOP, where you can order a copy.

A few weeks ago the Marathi Hobbit was published. It is a hardback with dustjacket. Illustrations by Alan Lee.

Don’t wait too long, I only have five copies for sale.

Paperback, 2010, published by BARD.

Bulgarian Tolkien collector Kaloyan Ivanov gave me a link to the publisher.

Kaloyan, thanks!

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Another new translation of The Hobbit. Earlier this year there was the Bengali translation, now we have the Marathi translation.

Hardback + dustjacket, 282 pages, plus the well-known Hobbit illustrations by John Howe.

I still have five copies left for sale, but as we say in Holland: OP = OP! If you want to order a copy, you can contact me.

I bought this books directly from the publisher, with help from the Bengali translator (thanks Santi).

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At last: the Vietnamese Hobbit. I tried many times to order a copy in Vietnam, but no response.

This Hobbit came from Swedish collector Sven Spanne. I traded this Hobbit for a copy of the Marathi Hobbit.
Sven: as soon as the Marathi Hobbits arrive, you’ll be the first to receive one.

Thanks!

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Huge book, some 3 kg, 29 x 20 x 6 cm. The title means Tales of the century – 2. In this book the complete Hobbit with eight color illustrations by J. Tokarew.

This book has 7.000 copies only, my copy has certificate number 6295.

Thanks to Marek Sliwinski, Polish Tolkien collector (see: http://www.tolkien.com.pl/hobbit/index.php).

Ukrainian Hobbit, first print 1985 in Kiev (in those days part of USSR). Bought on eBay (77goodthings: thanks) after Marek Sliwinski informed me. Thanks Marek!

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It was a good time for new Hobbits to arrive: three from England and USA (bought on eBay) and one from Italy, bought from Italian Tolkien collector Oronzo Cilli. Oronzo, thanks!.
But, real new? No…..

Three Englis versions, each with a new cover or binding. And the Italian one? I now have the first printing of the Italian Hobbit.

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Harback from 1997 with a new cover (2009), illustrations by Alan Lee.

Paperback HarperCollins Children’s Books, new cover.

Ballantine Books, 50th anniversary edition! (in 1997?).

Italian Hobbit nr 7 was a printing from 1979, now it is FIRST printing 1973.

Bundle “Forgotten birthdays” with The Hobbit by Tolkien and five more English stories (like Peter Pan), translated into Russian.

The other writers are Edward Lear, Eleanor Fardzha, Ann Hogarth, Donald Bisset and James Barry. On a Russian website Tolkien was called George R.R. Tolkien!
It seems there were 1.000.000 copies printed.
I bought this book on eBay. Michael Voevoda, thank you!

August 5, my new website www.hobbithunterbooksop.com went “on the air”. On this site I sell my many double copies of books by and on Tolkien (far more than 1.000).

And, guess what? In two weeks I got some 300 unique visitors from 28 countries all over the world. Well, that was a great start!
And …. already 26 books by and on Tolkien were bought by buyers from the USA, England, Ireland, France, Italy and The Netherlands. That also is great!

So, thank you for visiting my shop and, hope to see you again!

Henk Brassien – www.hobbithunterbookshop.com – The Netherlands

To see my Hobbitcollection (some 400 Hobbits in 60 languages), go to www.hobbithunter.nl.