Notes: "First published 1937|Second edition (fifth impression) 1951|Third edition (sixteenth impression) published ... in 1966" on copyright page. [Currey] First hardcover edition of the third edition The Third Edition represented first by this book and the contemporary Unwin Books paperback contains the second resetting of the text that incorporates a version of the revision Tolkien prepared in 1965, the last that he prepared. Slightly different versions of the same revision were incorporated in other revised editions and all of them introduced new typesetting errors. --The Annotated Hobbit (1st ed., 1988), Appendix A