Published in Taiwan (2011).
Softcover with dustjacket.

Not the same cover as Chinese trad 1: different picture of Frodo and other ISBN number.

Traded for a Dutch Hobbit (1960) with Paula D.

Published by Severo – Zapad in 1991, 200.000 copies.
Nice illustrations by D. Gordeev.

And then silence followed and it remained silent. Paypal was contacted and December 20 was the dead-line.
Guess what? That very day the Vietnamese Hobbit arrived in Zwolle.
Like they say in England: “All is well that ends well”.

First printings (2011) of the Marathi and Bengali Hobbit.

The Marathi translation, first printing 2011

Diamond Publications, ISBN 978 81 8483 374 4
283 pages, hardback + dust jacket, plm 20×25 cm
Translated by Meena Kinikar
Illustrations by Alan Lee (in color and black&white)
NEW book.

Price EUR 26,00
Shipping: Netherlands EUR 2,76, Europe EUR 8,69, Rest of the world EUR 16,15
Click on cover to go to the webshop.

The Bengali translation, first printing 2011
Cinnamon Teal Print and Publishing, ISBN 978 93 80151 93 9
236 pages, softcover, plm. 19×23 cm
Translated by Santi Chatterjee
Illustrations (35 in black&white) by Santi Chatterjee
NEW book.

Price EUR 18,50
Shipping: Netherlands EUR 2,30, Europe EUR 6,32, Rest of the world EUR 10,45
Click on cover to go to the webshop.

Bought for me by my brother Marius, who lives and works in Norway. Marius, thanks.

For more information on this Hobbit, click on cover.

In 1937 The Hobbit was born in England. So, in 2012 The Hobbit will celebrate his 75th birthday. HarperCollins could not wait: here is another 75th Anniversary edition.

The cover is the original cover 1937 by Tolkien. In the book (hardback + dust jacket, but the format of a pocketbook) nine original illustrations (in b&w) by Tolkien.

I bought this book at my favorite local bookshop: Waanders Boekverkopers Zwolle.

For more information about this book, click on cover.

Spanish collector Gololo (and NOT Gologo!, sorry mrs Jose!)  bought this book for me (you should pay a visit to his Hobbit website: click here).
Jose: thanks!

For more information on this book, click on cover.

Two new Hobbits arrived: the English edition, illustrated by Michael Hague, published by Grafton in 1992 (bought on Marktplaats).

And a 2011 3-in-1 Swedish edition of the comic version of The Hobbit, illustrations by David Wenze, adeption by Charles Dixon & Sean Demming. Bought by my brother Marius, who lives and works in Norway. Marius, thanks!

For more information about these books, click on covers.

The Bengali translation (2011, first printing) is back in the Hobbithunter Bookshop. And, at a lower price (I payed less costs of shipping India – The Netherlands).

The new price for this worderfully illustrated book is EUR 18,50.
Including postage the price is THE NETHERLANDS EUR 20,80, EUROPE EUR 24,82, REST OF THE WORLD EUR 28,95.

Click on cover to go to the webshop.

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.

For more information on this book, click on cover.