The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again (75th Anniversary Edition)

xix, 300 pp. Color and black-and-white plates and illustrations, maps on endpapers. Foreword by Christopher Tolkien, note on the text by Douglas A. Anderson. "Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that on his journey to the Lonely Mountain he will encounter both a magic ring and a frightening creature known as Gollum."