TEXT BY
J.R.R.TOLKIEN
AND ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE
FILM BY ARTHUR
RANKIN, JR. AND
JULES BASS
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The Hobbit
or There And Back Again
BALLANTINE BOOKS . NEW YORK
Book design: Nai Y Chang and John S. Lynch
lllustrators: Lester Abrams, Robert Jones, Tsuguyuki Kubo, John S. Lynch, Gray
Morrow, Minoru Nishida,
Carol Ann Robson, Walter Simonson, Charles Vess.
Illustrations and copyright: 1977 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTONS, INC., NewYork. All rights
reserved.
Published in 1977 by Harry N. Abrams, lncorporated, New York
Text © 1966 by JR. R. Tolkien, published
by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American
Copyright Conventions.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Library of Congress, Catalog Card Number: 77-78707
ISBN 0-345-27711-2
This edition published by arrangement with Harry
N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Ballantine Books Edition: September 1978
Second Printing: October 1978