This time an Annotated Edition from Serbia arrived. Printed in 2008 by Solaris Novi Sad.
Bought at Secondlifebooks in the US of A.
This Hobbit is # 680 in my Hobbit collection. More information about this Hobbit? Click here.
Surprise …… since 2013 Sri Lanka has it’s own translation (in Sinhala) of The Hobbit. Once again an exchange, this time with Michael W. from Germany. Thanks again, Michael.
This Hobbit is the second printing 2016. More information about this Hobbit? Click here.
This Hobbit is # 679 in my Hobbit collection.
This time a Norwegian Hobbit arrived. A hardback edition was in 1972 the first translation in Norway. This is – from the same year – the first paperback in Norway.
Thanks to Line Ørmen this Hobbit is now in my collection.
This Hobbit is # 678 in my Hobbit collection.
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A Hobbit, published in Russia, for pupils in school. Exerpts from The Hobbit in English, with a vocabulary in Russian.
110 pages, small pocketbook, AnthologyBooks “Young reader’s club”. Also see Rus 3 and Rus 66.
This Hobbit is # 677 in my Hobbit collection. More information about this Hobbit? Click here.
This time a Hobbit from Albania arrived. I traded this Hobbit with Carlos from Uruguay (yes, far away from Albania!). In return I sent him a Dutch Hobbit.
This Hobbit is # 676 in my Hobbit collection.
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A Hobbit with a story: several times (in 2018 alone four times) I thought I had bought this Hobbit. But …. four times the Hobbit as shown was NOT the Hobbit i received.
But then, all of a sudden, my cousin Marian F. – on a holiday in Germany – bought this Hobbit for me in Berlin. Thanks again, Marian!
This Hobbit, Germany 2011, is # 675 in my Hobbit collection. More information about this Hobbit? Click here.
This time a new (2018) Hobbit from Colombia arrived. I traded this Hobbit with Daniel from Colombia, in return I sent him a Polish Hobbit.
This Hobbit is # 674 in my Hobbit collection.
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This time – thanks to Oliver Bozovĭc from Serbia – two Hobbits from Serbia arrived: Wenzel comic 2002 (2.000 copies were printed) and 1995 from SOLARIS (only 1.000 copies were printed).
These Hobbits are # 672 and 673 in my Hobbit collection.
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This time a Hobbit from Norway arrived with on cover my favorite Tolkien illustration.
Tidens bibliotek 1980, paperback, first thus (?).
This Hobbit was a gift from Frank Wasmus (UNQUENDOR, Hobbitday 2018 Leiden – thanks again, Frank).
This Hobbit is # 671 in my Hobbit collection.
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This time three Hobbits arrived from Brazil. No ordinary purchase, but an old-fashioned barter trade.
Rafael Pereira da Silva also collects Harry Potter in as many languages as possible and had three Hobbits for exchange.
He received the seven Dutch-language paperbacks in return. Thanks, Rafael.
These Hobbits are # 668 through 670 in my Hobbit collection. More information? Click on year below the covers from left to right: 2009 2013 2016