return native three volumes di hardy thomas (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. No Jacket. Three separate volumes with titles as listed above, publish dates vary between 1928, 1930 and 1933 - all books have a clean firm interior with no actual usage marks, faint tan to prelims and e/papers, neat inscription to Return of the Native, each book has just very light usage signs to boards, Wessex Tales has faint mark to lower front - all tight and firm.

Hardcover. Condizione: NEAR FINE. First Edition. First American appearance of Hardy's Return of the Native in serial, beginning with February, 1878, complete over the three bound volumes. The American serialization was preceded by the British monthly Belgravia in January. 8vo's, half black leather over marbled boards, gilt stamped spine lettering and gilt tooled bands and edges, marbled endpapers and edges.

3 volumes. Frontispiece map by Hardy in first volume, 7.5 x 5.25, original decorated brown cloth with two embossed borders on rear covers, 303 pp, 297 pp + ads, 320 pp, covers quite worn, extremities bumped and fraying, spines cocked, volume 3 rehinged, eps unevenly toned, vols 1 and 2 have loose hinges, contents toned with some spotting and finger soil, but still a decent set of the FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the ' missing on title page of volume 1.

3 volumes. 7.25 x 5 inches. In later leather fine bindings by ?Bayntun-Riviere.? Full dark green morocco leather with gilt line panelled boards, raised banding and gilt lettering and decorations to spines. Full gilt page edges, marbled endpapers and gilt inner dentelles. A stunning set. Covers fine. A couple of neat pencil inscriptions to prelims of vol.1. Some occasional minor handling marks to pages, some minor light foxing to titles/prelims. Else pages overall very clean and tight. An excellent set. 3 half-titles. 1 sketch map (frontispiece to vol. 1 ). 303 pp. / 297 pp. / 320 pp. Very scarce. It was published in an edition of only 1,000 copies on 4 November 1878. It was never reprinted in its original three-volume form.

First Edition. Three vols, 8vos; 303, 297, 320; advertisement in rear of second volume; brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. One of 1000 copies, this one in Sadleir's "B" binding (no priority), with double blind frame on rear boards and slightly larger spine imprint. A nice set of one of Hardy's most enduring novels. Frontispiece map in vol. 1 detached and loosely inserted; rear inner hinge of vol. 1 cracked; covers rubbed, especially at spinal extremities, and with faint marks to their front panel where it appears that labels may once have been affixed; some light, internal spotting; a presentable set.