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first edition Hobbit sold for £137,000
A first edition of The Hobbit given by JRR Tolkien to one of his former students in 1937 has more than doubled the world record for a copy of the author’s first novel, selling at auction for £137,000. (US$ 209,400 at today’s exchange rate)
“[T]he copy [was] given by Tolkien to Katherine Kilbride, taught by the author at Leeds University in the 1920s … Kilbride’s includes an inscription by the author in Old English, identified by John D Rateliff, author of The History of The Hobbit, as an extract from Tolkien’s The Lost Road.” There is a reproduction of the poem in Old English at the link. |
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