Super Deluxe Edition, published for the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication of The Hobbit. Number 484 of 500 copies.
 
Octavo. Bound in publisher’s full green leather, with Tolkien’s gilt monogram to the upper cover, gilt lettering to the spine, and Smaug stamped in blind to the lower cover. Top edge gilt. Housed in the publisher’s leather trimmed slipcase.
 
A fine copy, very, very slightly faded of spine, but much brighter than one usually encounters.