Author: Thomas Hardy
Title: Jude the Obscure
Description: London, Osgood, McIlvaine and Co, 1896 . First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of Thomas Hardy's celebrated Wessex Novel, 'Jude the Obscure', in the publisher's original cloth binding. The first edition of Thomas Hardy's final complete novel. Serialised in December 1894, and first published in book form in 1895, though the title page states 1896.First edition, mixed first and second state, as is common. Gatherings A, B, E, G, H showing pagination to all partial blanks, with partial blanks of gatherings C, D, F unnumbered.With an etched frontispiece from H. Macbeth-Raeburn, and an illustrated map of Wessex to the rear.Volume VIII of Hardy's Wessex Novels, this work follows working class stonemason Jude Fawley and his ambitions to become a scholar. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge lightly strained, with board firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned to perimeters, with only the odd light handling mark to page perimeters. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy far from the madding crowd tess of the d'urbevilles Thomas Hardy None
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Title: Jude the Obscure
Description: London, Osgood, McIlvaine and Co, 1896 . First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of Thomas Hardy's celebrated Wessex Novel, 'Jude the Obscure', in the publisher's original cloth binding. The first edition of Thomas Hardy's final complete novel. Serialised in December 1894, and first published in book form in 1895, though the title page states 1896.First edition, mixed first and second state, as is common. Gatherings A, B, E, G, H showing pagination to all partial blanks, with partial blanks of gatherings C, D, F unnumbered.With an etched frontispiece from H. Macbeth-Raeburn, and an illustrated map of Wessex to the rear.Volume VIII of Hardy's Wessex Novels, this work follows working class stonemason Jude Fawley and his ambitions to become a scholar. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge lightly strained, with board firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned to perimeters, with only the odd light handling mark to page perimeters. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy far from the madding crowd tess of the d'urbevilles Thomas Hardy None
Price: GBP 340.00 = appr. US$ 485.51 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 958F12
- Book number: 958F12
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