Hobitti eli Sinne ja takaisin (Finnish edition)

The Tove Jansson illustrated edition of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, which is only allowed by the Tolkien estate to be published in Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and German. This is theFinnishlanguage hardback edition. The Swedish edition is currently not in print.

During her career, Tove Janssonalso illustrated books written by other prestigious authors. The two most important of these wereillustrated in the 1960s; J. R. R. Tolkiens The Hobbit and Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland. Tove also did illustrations for Carrolls poem bookThe Hunting of the Snark.

Unique opportunities to illustrate others books were interesting projects for Tove Jansson and the illustrations were both stunning and personal. However, they did not receive a great reception on release, as readers already had their ownimaginations about these classics from previous editions with other illustrations. That means that first editions with Tove Jansson illustrations are very rare.

Tove Jansson illustrated both the Swedish and Finnish editions of Tolkiens classic 1937 book The Hobbit. The first edition of the Swedish Bilbo en hobbits ventyr(‘Bilbo – A Hobbit’s Adventure‘) was published in1962 and the second in 1994. The first Finnish translation in 1973 was named Lohikrmevuori(‘Dragon mountain‘) whilethe next two editions in 2003 and 2011 were named Hobitti eli Sinne ja takaisin (‘The Hobbit or There and back again’).

ISBN:978-951042792

340 pages

Hardback with dust cover

Size: 24.5 cm x 17.5 cm