A PAIR OF BLUE EYES
by Hardy, Thomas
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Yarmouth, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Henry Holt & Co., 1874. Henry Holt & Co., 1874, 16mo., 390 pages. First U.S. edition published in 1873. Front and rear ads, spine darkened. Hardy's 3rd novel, but the first printed under his own name. Book bound in publishers mustard color decorated cloth, no dust jacket. Some cloth loss at top of spine, small bookplate verso of front board. Five titles by author listed on front endpage. Book in good condition.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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
- Cape Cod Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GD011389okBC3S3
- Title
- A PAIR OF BLUE EYES
- Author
- Hardy, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Co.
- Date Published
- 1874
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾" - 6&
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....