Jude The Obscure
by HARDY, Thomas
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Macmillan, 1921. Hardback. Reprint, 1921. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Good condition; board lightly marked, light edge and shelf wear, endpapers tanned, light foxing to first few pages. No dust jacket. Macmillan pocket edition, The Wessex Novels Volume IV with map of Wessex. Published: Macmillan, 1921
Synopsis
Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. The book was burnt publicly by the William Walsham How, Bishop of Wakefield, in that same year. Its hero Jude Fawley is a working-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar. The two other main characters are his earthy wife, Arabella, and his cousin, Sue. Themes include class, scholarship, religion, marriage, and the modernisation of thought and society.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8588
- Title
- Jude The Obscure
- Author
- HARDY, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Date Published
- 1921
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
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Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
Glossary
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...