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Wessex Tales: That is to say: An Imaginitive Woman; The Three Strangers; The Withered Arm; Fellow-Townsmen; Interlopers at the Knap; and The Distracted Preacher
by Hardy, Thomas
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. Collection of six tales, with a new preface by Hardy discussing minor points in and inspiration of a few of the stories; part of a uniformly-bound set; the first edition thus. Hardcover, full green cloth, gilt titling & decoration, as pictured. Light wear, minor chipping to spine ends; attractive engraved bookplate of William H. Mack & bold scrawled signature of H. Allen Brubaker on endsheets; four or five pages of the firstr story with some ink underlining & mareginal score, no other marks noted. [8], [291] pages, map, engraved frontispiece.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by H. Macbeth-Raeburn. 5¾" by 8".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- t1252
- Title
- Wessex Tales: That is to say: An Imaginitive Woman; The Three Strangers; The Withered Arm; Fellow-Townsmen; Interlopers at the Knap; and The Distracted Preacher
- Author
- Hardy, Thomas
- Illustrator
- H. Macbeth-Raeburn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- Fiction, Literature
- Size
- 5¾" by 8"
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
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