English-language editions of The Hobbit

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This list contains the complete full full English edition of The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. It's not for derivative or un printed works like scenarios, graphic novels, or audiobooks.

Video English-language editions of The Hobbit

Criteria for a separate edition

For this list, printing is a separate issue if one of the following criteria is met:

• Publishers declare it as a new edition.
• Substantial changes to the text have been introduced in addition to fixing typos.
• Publishers print basic designs for the first time.
• The design of the jacket or dust cover has been greatly changed.
• The height or width of the book has changed.
• The binder has changed.

Maps English-language editions of The Hobbit

Criteria for variant

For this list, printing is a separate edition variant if both are not separate editions themselves and also any of the following criteria are met:

• Unclear signs or annotations say it comes from a different publisher of an edition identical to (for example, a book club edition).
• Some internal illustrations appear as colors, not black-and-white, or vice versa.
• Several minor changes have been made in the design of the book or binding or the dust coat without affecting the overall design.

Printing is a separate 'not' edition or variant solely because of the following:

• The color of the binder changes.
• The color scheme of the dust jacket changes but the design remains the same.
• Typographical error is corrected.

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Other definitions

Page number means the page number of the last page of the story itself, regardless of whether the page number actually appears on the page. This does not include final papers or advertising pages, even if they are numbered.

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English edition described

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Other known English editions

• The English edition is annotated for Russian English students.
• BCA's 1992 edition of publication. Quarterbound with prominent letters on spine and ribs.
• Illustration Alan Lee, 60th anniversary edition, 1997
• Illustration HarperCollins Alan Lee, 2000, published for Dealerfield Ltd. Illustrated laminate board. Almost certainly only 1997 variant Alan Lee.
• Michael Hague illustrations, hardcover
• Unwin 4th edition
• Paperback Del Rey with cover matches with Peter Jackson movies
• 1999 edition of HarperCollins DeLuxe
• "Collins Modern Classics", Title in front shifts to center left
• Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series, 483 pages.
• Unwin's early 80's mass-market paperback with Smaug in stockpiling, "The Hobbit" above the background of rust-colored color
• Harper Collins Limited Editions Collectors' Box with CDs, folding maps, etc. 2000.
• 50th Anniversary of Unwin Hyman 1987
• Black Softcover with red dragon at the bottom in front and rune in center circle
• The 1987 ballantine anniversary of the 50th paperback (with or without the 50th anniversary record); Bilbo and Gollum on the cover, cover illustrations by Michael Herring.
• Edition of Ballantine's 1978 film art, animated softcover issue HA1977 Rankin/Bass.
• Late 1990s Ballantine softcover with a "natural" scene from Gandalf in the foreground, a bridge in the background, a river flowing into the foreground, forest on the right.
• 3D edition pop-up illustrated by John Howe
• Houghton Mifflin hard cover, 255 pages, with Tolkien illustrations, but the dust jacket shows the Smaug in the hoards and vases, cups, and saucers in the foreground.
• 1970 The Hobbit "Pleasure in Reading" edition. 279 pages. Australian edition? Done?
• paperback ballantine edition with "The Largest Epic Fantasy of Our Time" on a green background; Gandalf approached Bag End; 305 pages.
• English edition 1972 printed in Taiwan.
• Newer EB1990 version with new envelope cover

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