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A cover scan of the Hobbit by JRR Tolkien. Published by Harper Collins.

This artwork was drawn by Tolkien himself and was used as the dust jacket for the first 1937 Allen & Unwin hardback edition. See JRR Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator, #143/#144.

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