Saturday, March 07, 2015

George RR Martin Donates Hobbit First Edition To Texas University

ook2ookFriday 06 Mar 2015

George RR Martin expressed his pleasure at a long overdue acceptance of fantasy "into the canon of world literature", as he donated a rare first edition of The Hobbit to a Texas university.
The volume, one of only 1,500 first editions printed, was purchased by the fantasy novelist for Texas A&M University. JRR Tolkien's story of Bilbo Baggins's quest is the university library's five millionth volume, and was presented to the university by Martin in an official ceremony.


Guardian

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