The book was discovered by chance in a house in Bristol. It is one of 1,500 original copies of Tolkien’s famous 1937 ...

LONDON — A rare first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit sold for $57,000 at auction on Wednesday, after it was found ...

You’ll need more than a few silver coins to snag this literary treasure.

A “rare” first edition of JRR Tolkien book The Hobbit discovered during a house clearance in Bristol has sold at auction for ...

A rare first edition of The Hobbit found during a routine house clearance has sold for £43K. The copy of J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1937 work was discovered tucked deep into an old bookcase at a home in ...

A rare first edition of The Hobbit has been found during a house clearance in Bristol and is expected to sell for up to £12,000 at auction. Printed in 1937, it’s one of just 1,500 first-run ...

When the first edition of The Hobbit: or, There And Back Again was first published — 80 years ago, on Sept. 21, 1937 — C.S. Lewis famously called the book a “marvellous” classic-in-the ...

Nearly 40 years after he checked it out of a New York library, a former Marine has returned a copy of "The Hobbit" which travelled the world with him.