Author: HARDY, THOMAS
Title: Far from the Madding Crowd
Description: New York: The Heritage Press, 1958. Hardcover. A Heritage Press illustrated reprint edition of the Thomas Hardy's classic love story which is set in his semi-fictional "Wessex." "Far from the Madding Crowd" borrowed its title from a line in Thomas Gray's famous "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard." With woodcut engraved illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker and an introduction by Robert Cantwell. Sandglass leaflet not present. --- In green cloth-covered boards with patterned Parker haystack illustrations on covers; titling in gilt on maroon spine block and all textblock edges stippled in multiple colors. Volume housed in brown paper-covered slipcase. --- An about-Near Fine copy in a bright, tightly-bound binding lacking damages worthy of mention. Structurally sound slipcase with numerous scuff marks, otherwise undamaged.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); xxi, 400 pages. Near Fine .

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