FIfty Pence for a HOBBIT

So, here's a chipper little story about someone who buys a reading copy of THE HOBBIT in a charity shop  and finds it's a first printing first edition. With dust jacket.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jul/10/experience-i-found-a-fortune-in-a-charity-shop

--John R.

current reading: WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams, A WINE OF WIZARDRY by George Sterling, IN THE REALMS OF MYSTERY AND WONDER by Clark Ashton Smith (reproduces his paintings and carvings).