First edition of The Hobbit discovered in UK home sells for £43,000
Auction house Auctioneum said it is one of only 1,500 copies printed in September 1937.
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‘Unimaginably rare’ first edition of The Hobbit sells at auction for £43,000
Only a few hundred from the original 1,500 copy print run of Tolkien’s masterpiece are thought to still exist
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