The Trumpet Major

by Thomas Hardy

$38,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1880. First edition. First edition in book form, one of 1,000 sets produced, rare in such fresh examples of the original cloth illustrated from Hardy's own drawings. Of the edition, 600 sets were issued with two blind rules on the rear covers; 150 in the present three-rule binding were issued not long thereafter; and the final 250 unbound sheets were issued two years

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