Notes: 1st ed. Month of publication and cover artist from The Whole Science Fiction Data Base 8 Frontispiece and title page jointly decorated top and bottom by text runes, gold Frontispiece photo portrait of Tolkien, mid-1930s Title page components (quote three in sequence) -- The Annotated Hobbit -- Introduction and Notes by Douglas A. Anderson -- The Hobbit or There and Back Again // J. R. R. Tolkien // Illustrated by the Author [box, perhaps representing the original title page of the novel] Copyright page -- states The Hobbit (c) 1966 Tolkien and "Annotations copyright (c) 1988 by Douglas A. Anderson" -- quotes CIP data from LCCN 88-9061 -- permissions and acknowledgments (dense and long) -- 1st printing per numberline Contents -- Preface, ix -- Introduction, 1-8 --(I to XIX: The Hobbit with annotations and illustrations, 9-317) -- Appendix A: Textual and Revisional Notes, 321 -- Appendix B: On Runes and Their Values, 329 -- Bibliography, 331 -- Map of Wilderland, 336 (by Tolkien) The last two pages of the Introduction evidently show and annotate -- p7, title pages of the 1st US edition, 1st and 2nd printings, 1938 -- p8, Author's Note, 1966