Search Results: Life's Little Ironies a Set Of Tales With Some C… by Thomas Hardy

Harper & Brothers, 1894. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1894. No Edition Remarks. 268 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Heavy cracking at the hinges with exposed binding material. Title page and contents page are detached but present. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Minor fraying to cloth at spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Moderate tanning to spine. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Mild ring mark to front board.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1894. Green boards, gold title on spine, gilt title and 6 small faces on front, 268 pages plus page of ads. Boards smudged, rubbed along edges, corners bumped. Cracked at ffep, previous owner's name in ink and erasure mark on ffep. Contents page creased and smudged, occasional light smudging on remaining pages. Overall, good. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No DJ. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: MACMILLAN & CO LTD, 1903 Blue Cloth Boards with gilt titles to spine and gilt blocked device to front panel. 302 pp + Map + 32pp publisher's catalogue. Collection of short stories + observations on some local characters. First published 1894 the copy offered by us is the 1903 New Edition. Good (Book- Shelf rubbing to cloth including nick to head of 5mm approx and associated fraying. No previous owner name, light foxing to end papers. Otherwise clean and binding sound). Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale NB. It is DARKER BLUE Camera flash has lightened the blue cover

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1922 The Book Is Tight And Clean, No Marks Or Inscriptions Dark Green Cloth Covered Boards With Bright Gilt Deco Design On Front And Gilt Title On Spine. Very Little Shelf Wear. Cream Dj With Brown Details Including Small Vignette Of Hardy, Front Has Piece Missing At Top And Minor Chipping To All Free Edges.

Macmillan,, 1922. Sm. 8vo., Pocket Edition, with title in red and black, and full-page map in the text; original series binding of plum cloth, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and blind, back gilt extra, gilt top, a near fine copy. Nice copy of the tooled cloth issue of this most attractive edition.

New York: Harper & Bros, 1894. First American Edition. Hardcover - as published. Decorative green cloth with gilt lettering spine and front board, now in protective acetate, some soiling to rear cover. VG+ Ink name of first owner on ffep.

Macmillan,, [1912]. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with frontispiece in sepia photogravure (original tissue guard present), half-title and title in red and black, and double-page map in the text, endpapers and half-title lightly browned; original maroon cloth, backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp copy. Macmillan's 'Wessex Edition' (the name was suggested by Frederick Macmillan himself) was intended as the definitive issue of Hardy's works, incorporating all the author's final amendments. Published in 24 volumes between 1912 and 1931, it is beautifully printed on laid paper and elegantly bound. Each volume contains a fine frontispiece in sepia photogravure depicting a 'real-life' scene from the novel (here it is 'The White Hart at Casterbridge') and a double-page 'Map of the Wessex of the Novels and Poems' made from Hardy's own drawing (now in the Dorset County Museum). 'The Wessex Edition is in every… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers. 1894. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in boards. 1 inch open tear at bottom of title page. .

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1894. First American edition. Octavo, original light green gilt decorated cloth, pp. 268, + [2] publisher's ads. A collection of nine interconnected stories. Published the same year as the English edition. The front free endpaper has split along the gutter and has been tipped back into the book, some splitting to the hinge paper, spine a little darkened, top edge stain just slightly worn, else a very good, bright copy. Purdy, pp. 85-6. Carroll Wilson I:77..

[Osgood, McIlvaine],, [1894]. 8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper; decorative green cloth gilt, covers tooled in gilt and red to an art-nouveau floral design by Charles Ricketts, gilt back, back very lightly faded else a remarkably bright, clean copy. The binding is identical to that of the first edition published earlier in the same year. Purdy, p.85.