Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Centreville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First US Edition. Gilt spine titles. 1896 at bottom of title page. Previous owner's stamp on verso of frontis. Spine ends/corners worn and tiny tear to cloth at spine foot and head. Very light foxing to a few pages.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
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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- EGR books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3070
- Title
- Jude the Obscure
- Author
- Thomas Hardy
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1896
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Thomas Hardy;
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- 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...
- Cloth
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- 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....
- Title Page
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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