Wessex Tales: Strange, Lively and Commonplace

by Thomas Hardy

$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, limited to 684 copies. vi , 247; vi , 212 pp. 2 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; vol. I is about fine. Vol. II has moderate dampstaining on upper endpapers at hinge through half title, and on upper front board. Overall very good. Purdy p 58-60; Sadleir 1119;

• Binding: Leather

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