Return of the Native Tapa dura - 1978

Pendulum Pr, 1978-07. Hardcover. Good.

New. New in original shrinkwrap. Full leather with gilt-embellished designs on both boards, all edges gilt (gilt page-edges), and gilt-lettered spine. Moire endpapers & silk ribbon marker. Unopened and first thus. Bound in black Leather with Gilt Decoration. Four raised bands on spine. new.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1978. Reissue. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 9x6x1. Parker, Agnes Miller. Endpaper edges faded. 1978 Full-Leather. 416 pp. 8vo. Grey full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Includes publisher's preface, How This Book Came to Be by John T. Winterich, and illustrations from wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called "the real stuff of tragedy." The heath's changing face mirrors the fortunes of the farmers, inn-keepers, sons, mothers, and lovers who populate the novel. The "native" is Clym Yeobright, who comes home from a cosmopolitan life in Paris. He; his cousin Thomasin; her fiancé, Damon Wildeve; and the willful Eustacia Vye are the protagonists in a tale of doomed love, passion, alienation,… Leer más

Pendulum Pr, 1978-07-01. Leather Bound. New.