Someone found a first edition copy of The Hobbit in a charity shop.

Long, long ago, a 1937 first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit was forged by a printing press and sold. For a time, it was lost to man, buried in the piles of donated inventory at the Cancer Research UK superstore in Dundee, Scotland, until manager Adam Carsley spotted the worn copy on the shopfloor, […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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Rights Edition: Updates From Two Frankfurt Guests of Honor, Norway and Georgia

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Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition returns to a record low of $135

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