Yeah, I have a 1974, fifty-fifth printing Ballantine Books edition of The Hobbit that is literally laminated with extra-thick packing tape. And I had to to glue up the spine to keep the pages from falling out, and add some packing tape to the inner pages. I think I’m a year or so out from needing to break out the glue again…
The weird thing is, it’s not my only copy of The Hobbit… I have something like five or six different editions.
