Author: Thomas Hardy
Title: The Woodlanders
Description: London, Macmillan and Co. 1887. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first single volume edition of Thomas Hardy's novel 'The Woodlanders&apos. First single volume edition. Three volume edition published the same year. One of Hardy's series of Wessex novels, story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury. Declared by the Saturday Review in April 1887 to the "the best [novel] that Hardy has written." Written by Thomas Hardy, an English novelist and poet known as a Victorian realist influenced by Romanticism and the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing to the boards. Light shelf wear and bumping to the extremities. Some cloth loss to the rear board which has caused light fraying. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with only light scattered spotting. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .
Keywords: Woodlanders Thomas Hardy Wessex Thomas None
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Title: The Woodlanders
Description: London, Macmillan and Co. 1887. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first single volume edition of Thomas Hardy's novel 'The Woodlanders&apos. First single volume edition. Three volume edition published the same year. One of Hardy's series of Wessex novels, story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury. Declared by the Saturday Review in April 1887 to the "the best [novel] that Hardy has written." Written by Thomas Hardy, an English novelist and poet known as a Victorian realist influenced by Romanticism and the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing to the boards. Light shelf wear and bumping to the extremities. Some cloth loss to the rear board which has caused light fraying. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with only light scattered spotting. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .
Keywords: Woodlanders Thomas Hardy Wessex Thomas None
Price: GBP 225.00 = appr. US$ 321.30 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 843T90
- Book number: 843T90
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