Yet, the first US edition is one of the most beautifully designed of the early editions of the Hobbit.
The boots the hobbit wears in the emblem were acknowledged to conflict with the text's description of a bare-footed hobbit, so the publisher replaced the emblem with the rather less appealing seated flautist.
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Annotated Hobbit, annotated by Douglas A. Anderson.
