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
