And as the idyllic wilderness gives way to the forces of civilization
Everyone else in my family is dead
but was endowed with that intense mental energy which is so often combined with physical weakness
brave knights must take up arms against magical creatures of myth and faerie
Boards and spine have some fading but interior is clean
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again - J.R.R. Tolkien 1966 Houghton Mifflin vintage HB J. W. Buel And as the idyllic wildernessCondition: Acceptable: Signs of wear and consistent use. Original green cloth boards with navy lettering. See images for the condition of this book. Illustrated by the author! Blurb: In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort. Written for J. R. R.