The Annotated Hobbit Intro by Douglas Anderson

Or There and Back Again - coffee table sized and  in the exact same format as the original First but this is BOMC.  Minor edgewear to dust jacket, 1988 Houghton Mifflin, 336 pages w/multiple illustrations from foreign editions. This anthology is a reference for Hobbit hobbyists..."how Tolkien worked as a writer, what his influences and interests were, and how these relate to the invented world of Middle-earth." Features Tolkien's originals and Eric Fraser's from the Folio edition of 1979.  "Anderson has compared every page from every major edition of The Hobbit with Tolkien's own last checking copy in the restoration work for this definitive edition."      Very Good condition