Von: BFI [mailto:bfi@randomhouse.com] 
Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2000 00:42
An: 'volkert.braren@t-online.de'
Betreff: RE: Web site mail: The Hobbit

I don't think that particular edition is still available.  You could try
here:

http//: www.bibliofind.com

If you use a scan of the whole cover, you're okay.  

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> From: 	volkert.braren@t-online.de
> Sent: 	Friday, January 7, 2000 8:40 AM
> To: 	bfi@na.randomhouse.com
> Subject: 	Web site mail: The Hobbit
> 
> volkert.braren@t-online.de (Volkert Braren) sent the following:
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> years ago I got a copy of the Hobbit (Info see below). My family loved 
> it and I tried to buy it but couldn't get it. 1. Is it still on sale 
> somewhere / or reprinted? 2. May I put a jpg-scan of front- and 
> backpage of the book on my homepage? 3. As I couldn't get it, I 
> scanned the book and put it on a CD for my own use.
> I'd like to give a copy to my twin-daughters as a birthday-present. Is
> that ok.?
> Sincerely yours,
>    Volkert Braren, Pinneberg, Germany
> 
> Info:
> (TEXT BY J.R.R.TOLKIEN 
> AND ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE FILM BY ARTHUR RANKIN, JR. AND JULES BASS 
> The Hobbit 
> or There And Back Again 
> BALLANTINE BOOKS . NEW YORK 
> Book design: Nai Y Chang and John S. Lynch 
> Illustrations and copyright: 1977 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTONS, INC., NewYork.
> All rights reserved. 
> Published in 1977 by Harry N. Abrams, lncorporated, NewYork 
> Text © 1966 by JR. R. Tolkien, published by arrangement with Houghton
> Mifflin Company 
> All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
> Conventions. 
> Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a division of Random
> House, Inc., New York. 
> Library of Congress, Catalog Card Number: 77-78707 
> ISBN 0-345-27711-2 
> This edition published by arrangement wlth Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,
> Publishers 
> Manufactured in the United States of America 
> First Ballantine Books Edition: September 1978 
> Second Printing: October 1978