Desperate Remedies. A Novel

by Thomas Hardy

$14,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First Edition of author’s first book, one of 500 copies, with all half-titles. vi, 304; vi , 291; vi, 274 pp. 3 vols. 8vo. Bound in forest green half morocco backed marble boards with gilt ruling, gilt titles on five-banded spine, and t.e.g. Marble endpapers with handsome bookplate of heiress Gustavia Senff on upper pastedowns. Light bumping on bottom corner and foot of spine on volume one, and to rear bottom edge of volume three, otherwise a near fine

• Binding: Leather

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