Hobbit author-Ruth Robbins some Americans were so afraid

some Americans were so afraid of communists living among them that they began to hunt them like witches

weighed and placed on a truck with care

Brimming with wacky humor and action

She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it

Hobbit author-Ruth Robbins some Americans were so afraidTOLKIEN, J[ohn] R[onald] R[ueul]. The Hobbit. Or There and Back Again. Illustrated by the Author. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company (1968). 12mo, 319pp. Green cloth pictorially stamped in black. 2 double page b&w pictorial maps, 6 full page and one smaller b&w illustrations. Slight dent at top edge of front cover, corners a tad rubbed, faint damp stain at heel of spine extending about an inch on to bottom of front and rear covers, spine a tad sunned,