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# The first edition of Tolkien's The Hobbit, published in 1937, was found without its dust jacket on a shelf in a house in Bristol and sold at auction for £43,000
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- Published: 2025-08-07T09:07:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:29:11.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Pop Culture

The first edition of Tolkien's The Hobbit, published in 1937, was found without its dust jacket on a shelf in a house in Bristol and sold at auction for £43,000\. It is one of 1,500 original copies, of which only a few hundred survive. The book belonged to the family of Hubert Priestley, a scholar connected with Oxford. According to the auction house's specialists, Priestley may have been acquainted with Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. The copy, in a green binding and with illustrations by Tolkien, aroused great interest among collectors. In 2015 a similar copy, signed by the author, was sold for £137,000.