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Marathi Hobbit for sale at HOBBITHUNTER BOOKSHOP

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.

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11 2011

New Bulgarian Hobbit

Paperback, 2010, published by BARD.

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

Kaloyan, thanks!

For more information on this book, click on cover.

02

11 2011

NEW: Marathi Hobbit

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).

Click on cover for more information about this book.

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10 2011

At last: the Vietnamese Hobbit!

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!

Click on cover for more information about this book.

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10 2011

New Russian Hobbit

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).

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10 2011

New Ukrainian Hobbit

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!

Click on the cover for more information on this Hobbit.

05

10 2011

New Hobbits have arrived

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.

For more information, click on the covers.

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.

18

09 2011

New Russian Hobbit


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!

24

08 2011

New Russian Hobbit

New Russian Hobbit, thanks to Aleksey Voskoboinikov from Latvia. ZCT Moscow 2011, first edition thus, only 5.000 copies. Bought on Ebay.

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08 2011

Hobbithunter Bookshop in De Stentor, 12 aug 11

Vandaag, 12 augustus en precies een week na de start, staat een bijna paginagroot artikel over Hobbithunter Bookshop in de Zwolse editie van dagblad De Stentor.

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08 2011