Search Results: a laodicean or the castle of by hardy thomas

St. Martin's Press, 1978. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Benhard Tauchnitz, 1891 1/4 leather over blue and black marbled boards. Five ridges along spine. Gilt title has rubbed off; embossed title remains. Clean interior. Marbled bottom and side edge. Tight square binding. Rubbing to leather along edges. Previous owner's name embossed on fly leaf.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

BiblioLife, 2009-03-10. Paperback. Good.

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

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London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Full Leather. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. 10mo. Complete in three volumes, now in a later binding by Bayntum-Riviere of Bath England. Rebound without publishers ads. Lovely green Moroccan binding with raised spine bands and leather spine labels. Six spine compartments, nicely decorated, and with double lined outside dentelles. Gilt stamped dentelle inside boarder. All edges of text are gilded. Covers show some very slight rubbing and slight scuffs. All volumes remains tight and very clean. A particularly lovely set.

Sampson Low 1881 First Edition. 3 vols.; Very attractive half maroon morocco with gilt titles & raised bands on spines & marbled boards. Size 7.5 x 5 inches A very nice set in a virtually fine binding. In very good condition. Some very light rubbing on spine edges. A few pages foxed, else mostly very clean. 3 hf.titles. this copy bound without 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end of vol.3. Top edge gilt. New Plain endpapers. [Purdy 36; Sadleir 1109; Wolff 2980] The novel in its final form was publ.in England in an edition presumably of 1,000 copies, the first week of Dec. 1881. (The Am.ed.precedes this one by more than a week and was the serial version-reset- as it had been appearing in HARPER'S, without Hardy's final revisions).

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1881. 3 volumes. First English edition. 8vo, bound in antique three-quarter blue morocco over blue marbled boards, the spines are gilt lettered in two compartments and have wide gilt decorated raised bands, t.e.g., the original slate gray cloth to the upper cover and spine of Volume I has been retained and bound in. Now housed in a fine morocco backed foldover case. 312; 275; 269 pp. A handsome and well preserved set, internally fine with just a bit of normal age mellowing to the text, the original half-titles retained, the antique bindings with some evidence of age or use at the joints and extremities. FIRST EDITION OF HARDY'S MOST CONTEMPORARY NOVEL. Unlike his Wessex novels, this is work is set in the more technologically advanced contemporaneous age, so the plot exhibits devices uncommon among Hardy's novels, such as falsified telegrams and faked photographs. It was originally published in monthly installments in the European… Read More

Sampson Low 1881 (1st.Engl.ed.). COMPLETE in 3 vols; Finely bound, by Stikeman & Co. (bookbinders) Bound in contemporary half calf red morocco bindings. Spines with raised bands, decorative in gilt. Compartments decorated, ruled and lettered in gilt. Marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. SIGNED BINDING by Stikeman. In very good near fine condition. Beautiful bindings. Two very light scuffs on two spine bands. Private bookplate on front endpapers (John F. Talmage) Two tiny small dots on two top gilt edges. Inside some very light foxing, else generally very clean & tight. WIth original Cloth covers all bound in at the rear of each volume. Size 18.5cm x 13cm [iv], 312; [iv], 275; [iv], 269 pp. Half-titles. With the 32 page publisher's catalogue at the end of volume III The novel in its final form was publ.in England in an edition presumably of 1,000 copies, the first week of Dec. 1881. (The Am.ed.precedes this one by more than a week and was the serial version-reset- as it had been appearing… Read More

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. In three volumes. Pp. [iv]+312+[iv]+276(last blank)+[iv]+268(last blank); slate-grey sand-grain cloth, spines lettered in gilt, boards with triple blind rule border and publisher's monogram in blind at centre, slightly soiled and rubbed, edges lightly worn, corners bruised, spine cloth slightly bubbled Volume I, the spines chipped at extremities; top edges uncut; pages browned, upper hinge starting Volumes I & III, a few leaves faintly creased, a couple of edge chips, a little light foxing and occasional soiling; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1881. First U.K. edition, primary binding. Purdy p. 36; Sadleir 1109. *Without the 32 page publisher's catalogue described by Purdy as 'occasionally bound in at the end'. Originally published in monthly instalments in the European edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, from December 1880 to December 1881. During the serialization, Hardy became ill after the first 13 chapters had been… Read More

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1881. 3 volumes. First English edition. 8vo, bound in the publisher's original slate gray cloth, the covers blocked in blind, the spine panels lettered and decorated in gilt. Now housed in a fine morocco backed foldover case. 312; 275; 269 pp. A handsome and especially well preserved set, the cloth retaining its original handsome quality. internally fine with just a bit of normal age mellowing to the text, the original half-titles retained. FIRST EDITION OF HARDY'S MOST CONTEMPORARY NOVEL. Unlike his Wessex novels, this is work is set in the more technologically advanced contemporaneous age, so the plot exhibits devices uncommon among Hardy's novels, such as falsified telegrams and faked photographs. It was originally published in monthly installments in the European edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, from December 1880 to December 1881. Due to this arrangement Harper was able to publish the work in book form first, but this… Read More

London:: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington,, 1881.. First English edition.. publisher's gray cloth, gilt-lettered on spines, each preserved in a custom quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Three distinguished bookplates on each front pastedown and a fourth, the Rockwell Kent bookplate of Frederick B. Adams, in each chemise. . This is as nice a copy of "A Laodicean" as one can reasonably hope to find. The volumes are ever so slightly shelf-slanted. A beautiful set.. 8vo,. Laid in is a two page ALS from Thomas Hardy, January 16, 1882 to Bernhard Tauchnitz, advising the publisher that he has directed Williams & Norgate to send proof sheets of "A Laodicean" to him, "that you may form an estimate of what the story is worth to you." Former owner of this set, Frederick Adams, has laid in two additional notes, to the effect that Tauchnitz published Laodicean later in 1882, and that this was also George Barr McCutcheon's copy, although there is no… Read More