THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA. A Comedy in Chapters by Hardy , Thomas - 1970

Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1958. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1958. Reprinted. 479 pages. Pictorial dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over red cloth. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Some mild marks and staining to surfaces. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned.

NY: Harper and Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket. N.D.. Reprint. 1. Hard Cover. Volume XV of the Anniversary Edition of The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse with Prefaces and Notes in Twenty-One Volumes. Publisher's full red cloth with blind-stamped medallion on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g., fore-edge and bottom edge deckle, uncut pages. Illustrated with four sepia photographs including frontispiece. . Head and heel of spine are rubbed and lightly frayed, spine is lightly faded, covers have a few tiny scuffs, else unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY GOOD. . Anniversary Edition Series. Sepia photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 458 pp .

Macmillan, 1951. The Library edition. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth, top edge red (Fine), no dustwrapper. Pp. ix + 458, illus with endpaper maps (no inscriptions).

New.

Macmillan,, 1923. Sm. 8vo., Pocket Edition, with title in red and black, and full-page map in the text; original series binding of plum cloth, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and blind, back gilt extra, gilt top, a very good, bright, crisp copy. Bright copy of the tooled cloth issue of this most attractive edition.

Sampson Low Marston,, 1893. 8vo., free endpapers mildly browned; plum diced cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Bright copy of an early reissue. The novel was never reprinted in its original two-volume form. The first single-volume edition appeared in 1877 with six of the original illustrations , but much of the edition was remaindered to Sampson Low in 1882. This is apparently the first single-volume without illustrations. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Purdy, p.23.

London: Smith, Elder & Co. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume ONE ONLY. FIRST EDITION. Dark green half leather, gilt titling/decs to spine, marbled paper covered boards, all very rubbed/scraped. Corners and head/tail of spine bumped. All Edges Marbled. Plain Dark Khaki end-papers. Inner paper hinge springing but both hinges sound and tight. 322pp. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations (6 full page black/white plates incl. Frontis). Slight foxing/thumbing. No Inscriptions. Overall CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT. Obviously this volume is in desparate need of a Volume 2 ! - and a bargain to anyone who has one! ; 105070; 8vo .

London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1876. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 322, [2] ads; 9 plates; half brown calf over marbled boards, spines decorated in gilt in six compartments with maroon and green leather labels, t.e.g.; light general wear to binding, otherwise a very good set.

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1876. 2 volumes. First edition. With eleven attractive wood-engraved plates after George Du Maurier. Tall 8vos, in the publisher's original and primary binding of brick-red cloth, the upper covers with lettering blocked in gilt within elaborate black Victorian borders, the spines decorated and lettered similarly in black and gilt, cafe-au-lait endpapers. Now housed in a fine cloth-covered clamshell box with attractive printed label. vi, [1], 322, [2 ad]; vi, [1], 318, [2 ad] pp. An uncommonly handsome set of one of Hardy's rarest works, all the more so in original cloth and desirable condition. The cloth is still quite fresh, with no fading and bright gilt, just a bit of expected mellowing and rubbing at the tips or extremities, the text brighter and cleaner then is typically seen, any foxing being only occasional and quite light, the plates especially clean. A VERY ATTRACTIVE SET OF ONE OF HARDY'S RAREST WORKS, LISTED AS NUMBER FOUR IN COMPARATIVE SCARCITY BY… Read More