Thomas Hardy

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, was first published as a censored and serialized version in the British illustrated newspaper, The Graphic in 1891. An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literature's most admirable and tragic heroines...Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d'Urbervilles, he sends... Leer más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd. 1922. 12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm]. Very good. Maroon leather with gilt titles and decorations to face and spine. Gilt to top edge. Black & white map. Some light rubbing to leather. 507 pages. Macmillan Pocket Library, Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. 8vo. 268pp, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements). Green cloth lettered in gold on the front board and spine. A Very Good book with a nickel-sized stain to front board as well as soiling to spine. Square spine/textblock. Interior very clean.

London: Macmillan,. Hardback. 204pp. Considers the influence of Thomas Hardy on other art forms: cinema, theatre, art,  music and dance. Black boards with gilt titles to spine are very neat. Dust wrapper is slightly rubbed. Near fine copy in very good dw . Hardcover. 1979.

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd. 1921. 12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm]. Very good. Maroon leather with gilt titles and decorations to face and spine. Gilt to top edge. Black & white map. Some light rubbing to leather. Preface by the Author. 384 pages. Macmillan Pocket Library, The Wessex Novels Volume IX. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Believed to be Harper's 2nd US edition. Brown patterned marble paper over boards backed with dark blue cloth and gilt letters. Wear to the extremities. Owner's inscription on flyleaf. Penciled notes on endpapers. Boards rubbed. Title page detached but still inserted.

London: Heinemann. Hardback. 259pp. The first part of Gittings' classic biography of the novelist and poet. Deals with the first 35 years of Hardy's life. Black and white frontis and two further selections of black and white plates. Somewhat sunned to dust wrapper. Neat. Very good copy in good+ dust wrapper . Hardcover. First edition. 1975.

London: Routledge Kegan Paul,. Hardback. 323pp. Black and white frontis. Maroon boards with gilt titles to spine. Tanned to white areas of dust wrapper especially the spine. Very good+ copy in Good dw. . Hardcover. 1965.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. First Edition. 288 pages; publisher's green cloth, gilt 'TH' in wreath decorative motif on front cover; gilt spine titles; some light wear to binding, spine titles slightly dulled; some tanning to ep's and soiling to text block. Interior is very clean..

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,. Hardback. 237pp. Covers both Hardy's poetry and novels. Red boards with gilt titles to spine. Some what faded and tanned to spine of dust wrapper. Very good copy in Good dw. . Hardcover. 1978.

London: Bloomsbury Publishing An Albion Book. 1988. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near fine condition - cloth boards with pictorial inlay to face. A lovely copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. 192 pages. Selections from Hardy's novels, poems and short stories - appropriately illustrated. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First US Edition. Gilt spine titles. 1896 at bottom of title page. Previous owner's stamp on verso of frontis. Spine ends/corners worn and tiny tear to cloth at spine foot and head. Very light foxing to a few pages.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

New York: Macmillan,. Hardback. 206pp. Critical biography. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Dust wrapper is a little edge worn with a little rubbing and very tiny tears. Slightly sunned to spine. Very good copy in very good- dw. . Hardcover. 1967.

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Pocket edition thus. Reprinted.* Publisher: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. * Binding and cover condition: Dark green cloth, gilt titles to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear. VG+.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Previous owner's name and address to front paste-down. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with only light reading wear, no marks to text, slight age to prelims & darkening... Leer más sobre este artículo

Hardcover. Very Good. First US edition of his first book. Author's edition on verso. Some copies have ads on eps. This is the state with plain eps. Spine is soiled and crown of spine has some edge wear. Front and rear boards have faded some. Eps have tanning but book is otherwise internally clean. Front fly-leaf has small chip to upper right hand corner. Rear eps has some cracking at gutter but book is bound quite solidly. Small bookstore stamp on inside of front board.