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A new Hobbit in a new langauage (Occitan), from Langedoc, a French department. FIRST print 2018 (thanks Yvan for telling me).

This Hobbit is # 667 in my Hobbit collection and the number of languages/countries is now 81.

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No less than five new Hobbits arrived during the last two weeks. The Netherlands (and certainly I) suffered from temperatures above 32 degrees celsius.

First there are three (modern) Chinese Hobbits, amongst them the possibly most beautifully illustrated Hobbit: The Catlin Hobbit (yes, even in China!). Also very interesting: the one with Bilbo and the eagle happens to be the FIRST AUTHORISIZED CHINESE EDITION! And .. the 1993 Chinese Hobbit is a Pirate edition. (Thanks to Brigitte from Germany these Hobbits are now in my collection).

China FIRST and the Pirate edition: Thank you Lawrence Chang for telling me.

And then there are two Hobbits from Turkey, bought from Pandora: The Annotated Hobbi 2014 and The Hobbit 80 years 2017.

The Hobbits are # 662 – 666 in my Hobbit collection.

More information?
China 2017 Catlin: click here.
China 2000 FIRST: click here.
China 1993 – Pirate: click here.
Turkey 2014 – Annotated Hobbit: click here.
Turkey 2017 – The Hobbit 80 years young: click here.

This time a Hobbit from italy arrived, bought there during their holidays by my good friends Gerrit and Ellen, thanks!

Paperback, ADELPHI EDIZIONI, 2018 (movie cover 2012, but different color (terracotta and not yellow).

This Hobbit is # 661 in my Hobbit collection.

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This time the comic edition of The Hobbit in Hungarian has arrived.
Hardback, no dust jacket issued, CICERÓ 2002.

This Hobbit is # 660 in my Hobbit collection. More information about this Hobbit? Click here.

All the way from Azerbaijan no less than three new Hobbits arrived, thanks to Tengiz Rustamkhanli (QANUN Publishing Baku): a new Azerbaijan edition of The Hobbit and two Hobbits from Turkey. Once again, Tengiz, thank you very much.

Left: Turkey 2018, paperback. For more information, click here.

Right: The FIRST printing of the Turkish Hobbit. More information? Click here.

And, last but certainly not least, a new Azerbaijan edition of The Hobbit.
2018 by QANUN Publishing. Only 500 copies were printed. More information? Click here.

And, if you want to buy a copy of the new Azerbaijan Hobbit, contact Tengiz Rustamkhanli: qanunamazon@gmail.com.
You may mention my name. Price of the book $ 15.00, shipping (within Europe $ 15.00, worldwide also $ 15.00??).

These new Hobbits are # 567, 568 and 569 in my Hobbit collection.

This Hobbit might look like two Hobbits that already are in my collection (Eng 12 and Eng 99), but no. There is a difference:
on the spine of the book there is that little Tolkien dragon. Eng 12: in yellow, Eng 99: in red and Eng 160 (this Hobbit): in orange.
And yes, this Hobbit has the HC logo in white and not in silver, just like on the front cover.

This Hobbit is # 656 in my Hobbit collection.

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It is not my custom to buy special bindings from books. Yet I made an exception for The Hobbit in Latin, in leather bound by Handbuchbinderei Anna Kabs from Weidenthal – Germany.

The book is really beautifully bound with Bilbo by Dutch illustrator Cor Blok on the cover. The content of the book is equal to the first edition (2012) of The Hobbit in Latin.

This Hobbit is # 655 in my Hobbit collection. More infomation about this Hobbit? Click here.

This time an UNWIN Paperbacks Hobbit, printed and bound in Canada, arrived.
But in what year? Book says Third Edition 1966, ISBN says about 1975, but seen the price (Canadian $ 2,75) this book must have been for sale in 1980 or a little later.

Who knows the exact year?

This Hobbit is # 654 in my Hobbit collection.

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Here it is, The Hobbit Facsimile Gift Set 2018 by HarperCollins.
In it the first edition of The Hobbit, an exclusive CD with Tolkien reading from The Hobbit, a special copy of Thror’s Map which reveals the secret moon-runes when held to the light and a booklet that relates the history of The Hobbit.
ISBN 978 0 00 825954 9
This is Hobbit # 653 in my Hobbit collection.

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At last …. after many years of hunting for this FIRST Hobbit from Norway, Magnus H. told me that he had this Hobbit for sale.
This Hobbit now has arrived and he is very welcome in my Hobbit collection.
Hardback with dust jacket, 1972, TIDEN NORSK FORLAG.
This is Hobbit # 651 in my Hobbit collection. More information? Click here.

A very beautifully illustrated (by D. Gordeev) Hobbit from Russia. ACT Moscow 2015, hardback with dust jacket.
This Hobbit is # 652 in my Hobbit collection. More information? Click here.