AN EXTREMELY rare edition of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit sold for a record £3,000 – leaving Scots charity shop staff stunned.

While most were well-worn school titles, one caused a “real buzz” among staff: an unusually scarce Longmans edition of The ...

An extremely rare copy of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit sold for a record £3,000 after it was donated to a charity shop.

The edition of JRR Tolkien’s much-loved classic was among a pile of old children’s books donated to the Oxfam bookshop in ...