SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 8th.* Date of Publication: 1994* Publisher: Penguin Popular Classics.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing a detail from ?On The Beach by Gustav Vermehren. No bumps or rubs. Minor shelf wear to edges & corners. Light reading creases & dish to spine, not to hinge. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning, slight age and marks to page edges. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 435 pp. text. iv pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- ?Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface? ~ The opening lines of ?A Pair of Blue Eyes,? instantly portrays their fair possessor as vain and superficial. deficiencies which lead her to vacillation in love and ?proneness to inconstancy?. Set in Hardy?s Wessex, his haunting third novel introduces the themes of idealism, virtue and female constancy, to be developed in such later works as Tess of The D?Urbervilles, The Woodlanders, and Far From The Madding Crowd.* This is a NEAR VG++ copy of the 1st./8th. with absolutely some age and shelf wear reducing it to VG.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2481
Title: A Pair of Blue Eyes
Author: Hardy, Thomas
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - VG++/VG/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn, 8th. Imp.
ISBN 10: 014062094X
ISBN 13: 9780140620948
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Place of Publication: London UK 440
Date Published: 1994-06-30
Size: 11 x 2.9 x 18 cm

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Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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