1966 Ballantine Books (USA) revised ed. 2nd printing pbk
Title: The Hobbit
Author: JRR Tolkien
Published by: Ballantine Books
Year of Publication : 1966
Edition: revised edition, 2nd printing
The cover illustration by Barbara Remington for the first Ballantine Books edition (1965) originally featured a lion and a pair of emus. Tolkien himself remarked “What has it got to do with the story? Where is this place? Why emus? And what is the thing in the foreground with pink bulbs?”. By the time of the second printing, the lion had been airbrushed out, but the emus remain.