{"id":37491,"date":"2025-08-01T06:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/37491\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T06:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:03:08","slug":"first-edition-of-the-hobbit-found-at-routine-home-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/37491\/","title":{"rendered":"First edition of The Hobbit found at routine home clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A first edition of The Hobbit is set to sell for thousands at auction &#8211; after being discovered during a routine house clearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The copy of JRR Tolkien&#8217;s 1937 book was discovered on a bookcase at a home in Bristol. It is one of only 1,500 copies initially printed in September 1937.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is expected to fetch more than \u00a310,000 when it goes under the hammer at Auctioneum in Bath on 6 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Caitlin Riley, book specialist at the Auctioneum, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s always been highly collectible. For nobody to have in the last 60 years noticed, it blows my mind. It was such a huge surprise for us to find.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A first edition of The Hobbit is set to sell for thousands at auction &#8211; after being discovered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-37491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}