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Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two bound volumes for the year 1874. First appearance of "Far from the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy. Chapters 1-29 in vol 29, chapters 30 - 57 in vol 30. Illustrated. Magazines bound without covers or adverts. Stories only. Leather tips and spines with red covers. Some wear to leather on both covers, and to back cover of vol 29. Small stain on top edge of vol 29, slightly affecting pages. Bindings tight. Each volume is 760 pages.
Seller: Pam's Fine Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
. Cornhill Magazine Volumes XXIX and XXX. Smith, Elder & Co, 1874.
Price: US$781.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cornhill Magazine Volumes 29 and 30 - the origial printing of Thomas Hardy's 'Far from the Madding Crowd.' Blue marbled board covers.Gilt gold lettering of the Cornhill Magazine' on spines faded especially on Volume 29.Foxing on front and back pages but no foxing on text which is clear and bright.Both marked 'Dorset Collection' inside front - from the collection of the late English broadcaster and writer John Arlott
Seller: Tim Arlott Books, Newbury, BERKS, United Kingdom
Hardy, Thomas. Far from the Madding Crowd. Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1874.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 1000 copies. [iv], 333; [iv], 342 pp. With 12 plate illustrations by Helen Paterson; frontispieces with tissue paper in each volume. Printeed by William Moore & Co. 2 vols. 8vo. Hardy's first great Wessex novel. First issued serially in the Cornhill Magazine from January to December 1874, published in book form it comprised Hardy's first major novel and his first success. "[I]t established precisely the kind of richly specific rural and agricultural setting that was to characterize his most widely admired work. It also introduced, as integral to that setting, the fictional region of Wessex, closely based on the topography of Dorset and the adjacent counties, that became increasingly the central organizing feature of his fiction" (ODNB). Purdy pp. 13-20; Sadleir 1105; Webb, pages 8-9; Wolff 2975 Bound in forest green half morocco backed marble boards with gilt ruling, gilt titles on five-banded spine, and t.e.g. Marble endpapers with handsome bookplate of heiress Gustavia Senff on upper pastedowns, and a collected list of all Hardy volumes in neat manuscript tipped in before titles in volume one. Some light foxing near front and rear of books, slight bumps to upper corners on each, but otherwise a very attractive near fine set [iv], 333; [iv], 342 pp. With 12 plate illustrations by Helen Paterson; frontispieces with tissue paper in each volume. Printeed by William Moore & Co. 2 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.