The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

$20,250 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1886. First edition. First edition in book form, representing the first publication of the novel in its entirety following its serialization, in bowdlerized form, in Graphic and Harper’s Weekly from January to May 1886. The book was published on May 10, 1886 in 758 copies, of which only 650 were bound; it is consequently scarce, especially so in the original

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