Hobbit author-Ruth Robbins weighed and placed on a

weighed and placed on a truck with care

She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it

Lotta Nieminen’s stylish design style elevates this bold

readers can get up close with nature to observe its wonders

find a missing girl

Hobbit author-Ruth Robbins weighed and placed on aTOLKIEN, J[ohn] R[onald] R[ueul]. The Hobbit. Or There and Back Again. Illustrated by the Author. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company (1968). 12mo, 319pp. Green cloth pictorially stamped in black. 2 double page b&w pictorial maps, 6 full page and one smaller b&w illustrations. Slight dent at top edge of front cover, corners a tad rubbed, faint damp stain at heel of spine extending about an inch on to bottom of front and rear covers, spine a tad sunned,