Author: HARDY, THOMAS
Title: The Return of the Native
Description: New York: The Heritage Press, 1942. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385150202. A deluxe Heritage Press reprint edition in slipcase of the author's classic, set in his semi-fictional English county of Wessex, and first published in 1878. The entire story is set on Egdon Heath, rather bleak moorland. Includes the striking woodcut engraved illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker and an introduction by John T. Winterich. Sandglass leaflet laid in (NY, no. 5LX). --- With patterned Parker illustrations in olive on tan cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped titling on green spine block; all textblock edges stippled in green and brown. Volume housed in dark green paper-covered slipcase. --- With shallow creases to first few leaves, otherwise volume is in excellent shape: clean, unmarked and bright. Structurally sound slipcase with a little dusty soiling, small tears and scuffing, else in good shape.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xiii, 416 pages. Very Good+ .

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