The story behind The Hobbit with a spaced-out Smaug that brought a £3000 sum for Oxfam
As befits one of the most read and best-selling works of English literature, JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit involves a bewildering array of editions over the many decades since the great fantasy novel made a debut on September 21, 1937.
The earliest first editions inevitably bring in the highest sums, such as a signed example from the …