• Publication: The Hobbit: Or There and Back AgainPublication Record # 292549
• Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
• Date: 1983-06-00
• ISBN: 0-345-29604-4 [978-0-345-29604-7]
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Price:
  $2.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 287
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: NOVEL
• Cover: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (1981) • by Darrell K. Sweet
• Notes: Stated 5th printing of revised edition. THIS revised edition is only a redesign of the cover and type for the 25th anniversary. Copyright page still gives cover credit to Tolkien and credit for photo of author on the back cover which isn't there.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Hobbit, or There and Back Again • juvenile • [The Hobbit] • (1937) • novel by J. R. R. Tolkien
•  The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (maps) • (1937) • interior artwork by J. R. R. Tolkien