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A Pair of Blue Eyes
by Hardy, Thomas
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No dust jacket.
- Seller
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Osgood, McIlvane & Co, 1895. Hardback. Fair/No dust jacket.. Osgood, McIlvane & Co, London, 1895. Book condition: fair. Some shelf wear and corners bumped. A little fraying to head & tail of spine which is also a little creased. Some staining to boards. Gilt monogram decoration to front of ribbed green boards, gilt to spine and teg. Endpapers/prelims a little spotted. Owner's name in pencil to ffep. Frontispiece etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn with tissue guard which is a little spotted. Vol IV of The Wessex Novels series. Some weakening at gutters but still soundly bound.
Synopsis
A Pair of Blue Eyes is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1873. The book describes the love triangle among a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen Smith is a socially inferior but ambitious young man who adores her and with whom she shares a country background. Henry Knight is the respectable, established, older man who represents London society.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariadne Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1304312
- Title
- A Pair of Blue Eyes
- Author
- Hardy, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Osgood, McIlvane & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1895
- Keywords
- Thomas Hardy,A Pair of Blue Eyes,Wessex Novels
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ariadne Books
Biblio member since 2018
Eynsham, Oxfordshire
About Ariadne Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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