The First edition of The Hobbit found in a Dundee charity shop sells for ￡10,000

A first edition copy

of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit

has sold

for more than ￡10,000 after being discovered in a charity shop.

The rare copy

of Bilbo Baggins' Tale

was

stumbled

upon by the manager of the Cancer Research UK Superstore in Dundee.As the store only sells items for ￡5 or less,

the book was

put up for sale

on eBay

, where it made ￡10,099.50 for the charity.

The book is one of the first 1,500 copies

of the children's literature classic

, which

sold out

soon after publication in 1937 due to

rave

reviews.

These editions include black and white

illustrations

by Tolkien himself.

生詞/組：

stumbled 說，讀，演奏;絆腳

put up for sale 出售;拿出銷售

rave <英口>極力夸獎，贊不絕口;<口>狂熱褒評的，贊揚的

sold out 銷售一空的;票已售完的

illustration n. 插圖，圖解

譯文：

在鄧迪慈善商店發(fā)現(xiàn)的《霍比特人》第一版售價1萬英鎊

JRR托爾金的《霍比特人》第一版在一家慈善商店被發(fā)現(xiàn)后，售價超過1萬英鎊。這本罕見的《比爾博·巴金斯的故事》被鄧迪癌癥研究英國超市的經(jīng)理偶然發(fā)現(xiàn)。由于這家商店只賣5英鎊或更低的東西，這本書在eBay上出售，為慈善機構(gòu)賺了10099.50英鎊。這本書是第一批1500本兒童文學經(jīng)典之一，1937年出版后不久，由于好評如潮，該書就銷售一空。這些版本包括托爾金本人繪制的黑白插圖。 來自衛(wèi)報（The Guardian）