1978 The Hobbit (Bob Askey)

Release Date: 1978
Reader: Bob Askey
Language: English
Organization: Library of Congress
Translator: n/a
Copyright: © 1938 Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: n/a
Duration: 9 hours 59 minutes
Unabridged: Yes
Country: USA
Licenced: Yes
Formats: 2 C-90 : analog, 15/16 ips, 4 track, mono
NLS Book Number: RC 11497

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Produced by American Printing House for the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled service of the Library of Congress. This reading was made purely for eligible members of this special library service in the USA and not available for commercial release.

Bob Askey narrated hundreds of talking books in a variety of genres from the 1970s into the 2000s and is a two-time winner of the Alexander Scourby Award from the American Foundation for the Blind. A college in the University of Nebraska, he was friends with the young Johnny Carson who went on to be a legendary late-night TV host.

So far there have been three readings of The Hobbit by the Library of Congress.

• 1967 Alan Haines
• 1978 Bob Askey
• 2001 Carol Jordan Stewart’s

For a more detailed overview of the Library of Congress recordings, see this article.