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Price: US$9.80 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 405 p. Frontispiece. map. Ex-library book (class number, barcode, stamps, loan sheet, card pocket). wear to publisher,s binding reinforced with tape. Hinges repaired with tape. Some staines.
Seller: Livresse, Gatineau, QC, Canada
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light shelf wear extremities.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$16.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 405 pp. 5 5/8 x 8 1/4. Library binding. Red boards with qtr red cloth, stamped in gold on spine. No dj. Ex pub lib. Bent corners, tight binding.
Seller: Blue Awning Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [iv], 406 pp. Frontispiece. Map. Cloth binding, gilt embossed lettering & cover design, ownership signature, else good copy. (95490g).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 22 x 15 cm. Octavo. 406 pages, frontispiece and map. Dark green cloth with gold design. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Half-title page partially detached.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
HARDY, THOMAS. A Changed Man. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1913.
Price: US$30.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black and white frontispiece and tissue guard intact. Cloth worn at the outer extremities of the boards and the spine. Outer page edges browned with some silverfish markings. Hinges cracked but the binding is reasonable. The rear endpage and pastedown are ugly.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 407p. A dark green cloth hardcover book in good+ condition. Corners curled inward and edges of spine nicked here and there. Small dent on top edge of back cover. Owners' signatures on front endpaper; one is dated 1913. Gutters of endpapers starting to split, but the hinges themselves are secure. Text unmarked.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Octavo. Dark green cloth binding with embossed gilt emblem to front cover and stamped, gilt lettering to spine. A CHANGED MAN: The Waiting Supper and Other Tales concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. By Hardy, Thomas Originally published in 1914, this is the first collected edition of these 12 shorter novels, which had previously only appeared in magazines and journal. Contents include: A Changed Man, The Waiting Supper, Alicia's Diary, The Grave by the Handpost, Enter a Dragoon, A Tryst at an Ancient Earthwork, What the Shepherd Saw, A Committee-Man of the Terror, Master John Horseleigh, Knight, The Duke's Reappearance, A Mere Interlude, The Romantic Adventures of A MilkMaid Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Very Good. Spine ends slightly faded. Minor soiling to rear cover with minor sunning to spine cloth. Binding tight.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, Octavo, original ribbed green cloth over boards, decorated and lettering in gilt. Collection of 12 short stories, from the great romantic, Victorian author Thomas Hardy. Includes black and white frontispiece and map of Wessex, in which the stories are set. Very good, small bumps to cover and corners.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.39 + shipping
Description: HARDY, Thomas. A Changed Man : The Waiting Supper and Other Tales concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. N.Y.: Harper & Bros., (October) 1913. First American Edition. Pp. 405 with map at rear + frontispiece with tissue guard. 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt decoration to front, gilt lettering to spine. Purdy pp 156-157 Front hinge starting, cloth lightly rubbed,previous owner's name inked to ffep, else very good. 100.00
Seller: John W. Doull, Bookseller, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo. Bound in original green cloth with gilt lettering and design. Photographic frontispiece and map of Wessex rear. Previous owner bookplate and inscription ffep. vii, 412 pp.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. A CHANGED MAN / The Waiting Supper / and Other Tales. , 1913.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Description: Concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, (1913). Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. First (American) Edition, published simultaneously with the English one. To quote from Hardy's prefatory note, this is a collection of "for what they may be worth, a dozen minor novels" that had previously appeared only in periodicals -- between 1881 and 1900, before Hardy had forsaken fiction for verse. It constitutes Hardy's last major volume of prose. The American edition, which in our experience is scarcer than the English one, has as a frontispiece a Reinhart illustration from "The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid," where the English edition has a photogravure of Maiden Castle. This is a fine, bright copy (very faint discoloration on the rear cover). Purdy pp 156-7.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-405 [406] [407: map] [408: blank], inserted frontispiece, map of "The Wessex of the Novels" on page [407], original vertically ribbed navy cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Part of the eighteen-volume "Wessex Novels" edition published between 1895 and 1913, five of which were first editions as well. Hardy's last collection of short fiction; twelve stories first published in various periodicals, at least two of which are supernatural: "The Grave by the Handpost" and "A Mere Interlude." ". Hardy's ghost and Gothic fiction are acknowledged as among the most artistically satisfying produced and are successful contributions to both the supernatural genre and English literature in general." - Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 240. "Hardy is usually described as bleak, but an almost impish sense of black humor, an appreciation of 'life's little ironies,' runs through his work like a leavening agent. So too does the shadowy working (especially in the short stories) of supernatural forces, forces akin to the fate and cosmic irony we see so often in the novels." - Robert Eldridge. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 190-192. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 242. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992) or Day, Supplemental Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Purdy, pp. 151-7. Sadleir 1104. Wolff 2970. A fine, bright copy. Quite nice. (#130638)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.79 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition. Tall 8vo., orig. dark green cloth with the "TH" monogram in gilt on the upper cover, (406), (1) map. Purdy P. 155-56. Name o/w a fine copy.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$169.63 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition. Tall 8vo., orig. dark green cloth with the "TH" monogram in gilt on the upper cover, (406), (1) map. Name, inner front hinge cracked o/w a near fine copy. Purdy P. 155-56.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$169.63 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First USA Edition; dark green vertical fine ribbed publisher's cloth; lettering in gilt on spine; Hardy's monogram in gilt on front cover; all gilt is bright; no foxing; hinges are tight; (406), (1) Map of Wessex; no prior signatures or internal markings; has the frontispiece illustration for "The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid" rather than the "Maiden Castle" in the UK edition, both of which editions were published simultaneously; slight lean. Purdy pp.156-7
Seller: Reeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB), South River, ON, Canada
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: FINE WITHOUT D.J. FRONTISPIECE ILLUSTRATION BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH BRIGHT GILT TITLES AND DESIGN ON THE SPINE AND FRONT COVER. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$7696.57 + shipping
Description: First American edition. Inscribed by Hardy on the front free endpaper: "To Miss Teresa Fetherstonhaugh from/ Thomas Hardy." Teresa Charlotte Fetherstonhaugh (1856-1929) was a friend of Thomas and Emma Hardy's, as well as T.E. Lawrence's cousin. Teresa visited the Hardys in Max Gate, and wrote to a friend in 1912 concerning "Mrs. Hardy's charges against her poor old patient husband. She is a queer woman and I never thought her quite right in the upper storey!". She lived in Moreton, Dorset, and her family the Framptons had for many centuries owned much of the area known in Hardy's Wessex novels as "Egdon Heath". The map at the rear of the volume shows "The Wessex of the Novels", including Edgdon Heath. Not long before this book's publication, Hardy wrote an amusing letter to Fetherstonhaugh, on 24 June 1913 from Max Gate: "If the 'gentility balls' on the gates of old manors are really, as you say symbols of the heads of the executed culpritsso far from having them taken down, I am inclined to put some up on my gate, to terrify the boys who get over the wall & steal my apples & carry off other unconsidered trifles." Purdy pp 151-157 Octavo. Original dark green cloth, titles to spine and monogram to front board gilt. Housed in a green cloth solander box. With frontispiece and map at end. Minor wear to spine ends and board edges, spine lightly sunned, boards slightly soiled. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom