There is a Facsimile Gift Edition which is pretty affordable: https://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-Facsimile-Gift-Tolkien-author/dp/0008259542 https://www.amazon.com/

There is a Facsimile Gift Edition which is pretty affordable: https://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-Facsimile-Gift-Tolkien-author/dp/0008259542 https://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-Facsimile-Gift-Tolkien-author/... Or, the differences in the texts are pretty thoroughly hashed out in: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12973638-the-history-of-the-hobbit-one-volume-edition https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12973638-the-history-of-... which contains an annotated (and analyzed) text of the first edition.