The Hobbit: Collector’s Edition — J.R.R. Tolkien

An unexpected journey, in an edition made for keeping.

Bilbo Baggins is perfectly content with his comfortable life at Bag End—and would very much prefer to avoid anything resembling an adventure. Then Gandalf arrives, followed by thirteen dwarves, a map, a plan, and considerably more excitement than Bilbo ever intended.

Ahead lie trolls and goblins, riddles in the dark, ancient treasure, unexpected courage, and Smaug the Magnificent, waiting beneath the Lonely Mountain.

Filled with friendship, humor, danger, and discovery, The Hobbit is the beloved beginning of Tolkien’s Middle-earth adventures. This handsome Collector’s Edition gives Bilbo’s journey a fittingly special home, with a foil-stamped cover, stained edges, and ribbon bookmark designed to coordinate with the matching editions of The Lord of the Rings.

Details

• Collector’s hardcover edition
• 304 pages
• Foil-stamped cover
• Stained page edges
• Ribbon bookmark
• Written by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Fantasy / adventure
• Part of the coordinated Tolkien Collector’s Edition series

Why We Love It

There is something especially lovely about a beautiful edition of a book you expect to read more than once.

The Hobbit is one of those stories that changes a little depending on when you meet it—an adventure when you’re young, perhaps something more about courage, home, friendship, and the alarming consequences of answering your front door when you’re older.

This edition feels made for that kind of lifelong relationship: beautiful enough to give, sturdy enough to revisit, and very satisfying lined up beside the rest of Middle-earth.

Build the Collection

• The Hobbit: Collector’s Edition — you are here
• The Fellowship of the Ring: Collector’s Edition
• The Two Towers: Collector’s Edition
• The Return of the King: Collector’s Edition

Each volume is designed to coordinate as a handsome four-book collection while standing beautifully on its own.