Left: DeLuxe Edition Germany 2012, hardback in slipcase. This is Hobbit # 642 in my Hobbit collection.
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Right: The Hobbit 80 Years, in box with The Lord of the Rings (three books) England 2017. This Hobbit is # 643 in my Hobbit collection.
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This time a very beautiful French Hobbit arrived: 2013 DeLuxe edition, illustrated by Tolkien himself.
This Hobbit is # 641 in my Hobbit collection.
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This time an Indonesian Hobbit (but made in the U.S.A.) has arrived (Brigitte, thank you for telling me).
Paperback, Penerbit PT, 2017.
This Hobbit is # 640 in my Hobbit collection.
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This time once again a Russian Hobbit arrived. Interbuk-Hortica, 1994
Hardback no dust jacket issued, beautifully illustrated.
This Hobbit is # 639 in my Hobbit collection.
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This time two Hobbits from Russia have arrived.
Excerpts from all 19 chapters of The Hobbit in English with a vocabulary in Russian.
Anthology Books, Young Reader’s Club 2015.
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Well-know cover is it not? This time first thus 2017, AST Moskwa.
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The first Hobbit to arrive in this new year 2018, came from France. Published in 2012 when The Hobbit celebrated his 75th birthday.
Christian Bourgois Éditeur, hardback with dust jacket.
This Hobbit is # 636 in my Hobbit collection.
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This time a Spanish Hobbit arrived. Hardback, minotauro 2013, cover by John Howe.
Same cover as the paperback from 2003.
This Hobbit is # 635 in my Hobbit collection.
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Great news: finally there is a translation into Afrikaans, the language of the country where Tolkien was born in 1892.
It was about time, was it not?
PROTEA Boekhuis Pretoria, 2017, paperback. Illustrated by David Wyatt.
This Hobbit is # 634 in my Hobbit collection in (now) 80 languages / from 80 countries.
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This time a Russian Hobbit arrived. Hardback, no dust jacket issued. 1991.
This Hobbit us # 633 in my Hobbit collection.
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This time a French Hobbit arrived, bought in a small village in France by a former colleage of mine, thank you Mae.
Pocketbook, 1989, different from Fra 1 (1987).
This Hobbit is # 632 in my Hobbit collection.
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