THE HOBBIT J.R.R. TOLKIEN 1938 First US Edition True FIRST Print 1st Impression

The product is a first US edition hardcover book titled \"The Hobbit\" by J.R.R. Tolkien, published in 1938. This true first print 1st impression edition. The books endpapers are noteworthy because though most were assembled with the maps as end papers. As it is, the book could be repaired to feature the maps as the paste down and be original to the nature of most all first print.
Do your own research but the first impression Hobbits were printed in Great Britain and have a corespondent British print run, roughly a few months earlier then the US. But the US books were assembled with a few variations and this book is one of those rarer variations in assembly, but rest assured very much original and it makes it uniquely easy to repair if the buyer chose to go that route.
You’ll find the ladder color illustration of smog has been pretty well destroyed by someone (likely a child) cutting it out, as this is a Massachusetts ex library book.