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Rare and modern books

Hardy

THREE NOTABLE STORIES. Love and Peril. To Be, Or Not To Be. The Melancholy Hussar. Respectively by the Marquis of Lorne, Mrs. Alexander, Thomas Hardy

Spencer Blackett, 1890

605.00 €

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Year of publication
1890
Place of printing
London
Author
Hardy
Publishers
Spencer Blackett
Edition
THE FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF THOMAS HARDY'S SHORT STORY
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

First edition, and being the first of Hardy's short story "The Melancholy Hussar of The German Legion". 8vo, bound in contemporary three-quarter blue morocco and marbled boards, gilt lettered in two compartments of spine, wide gilt decorated raised bands, t.e.g. Now housed in a fine custom clamshell box backed in blue morocco and gilt lettered. 211pp. The textblock in fine state being clean and uncommonly fresh, solid and free of spotting or toning completely, the antique binding a bit rubbed at the joints but still firm and sound, at the lower spine tip there is a roughly three-quarter in chip to the leather.