#" Tolkien’s Tale

Estimate £8,000-£10,000 Sold £11,875

First editions of The Hobbit or

There and Back Again as the author also coined it, are very collectable. This example of JRR Tolkien’s popular story, recently re- covered in a forest design in green Morocco leather, dates to 1937 and was sold at Sotheby’s over the summer for a reasonably modest price. The record for a # rst edition of this novel was set in 2015 at Sotheby’s, when a copy of The Hobbit inscribed by the author fetched £137,000. 020 7293 5000; sothebys.com