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Hardy, Thomas. Jude The Obscure. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York., 1896.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Dark Green hardcover with gilt stamp titles on the spine and a symbol on the center of the front boards. Boards are soiled and scuffed. Corners are bumped and rubbed through. Head and tail of spine are chipped and frayed. Some dents and small tears along spine. Gutter is cracked at rear flyleaf. Binding is holding together decently, beginning to crack in places throughout. The page facing title page is loose, laid in. The pages have some signs of foxing. Stains from water damage along the bottom edge. The inside is unmarked. The binding is cracked and has pulled away from the spine. Some markings to rear pastedown, tears. Gutter along front pastedown is cracked along bottom half.

Seller: George Strange's Bookmart, Brandon, MB, Canada

Hardy, Thomas. Jude The Obscure (Illustrated). Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, Franklin Square, 1896.

Price: US$49.90 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Green boards with gilt design to front board and gilt spine titling. Illustrated with frontispiece and eleven (11) illustrations. (Penciled note to fep by previous owner: "1st Amer. ed. 1st illustrated ed. Really the 1st ed. as it made its first appearance in Harpers Monthly with these illustrations before publication in book form") Frontispiece "I Ought Not To Be Born, Ought I?" Good minus condition. Cocked. Head of spine closed tear mended poorly with tape and tail starting. 488 pp. Copy worthy of restoration.

Seller: Jerry Shepard, San Rafael, CA, U.S.A.

Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1896.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First American Edition. Illustrated by WIlliam Hatherell. 8vo., cloth. Extremities worn, with slight loss to head & heel of spine.

Seller: Michael Grano, Seaside, OR, U.S.A.

Hardy, Thomas. JUDE THE OBSCURE. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1896.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Octvo. First illustrated edition. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering spine and front cover. Very good copy with light foxing, off setting to ffep from newpaper clipping, pencil notes endpapers. 488 p.

Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.

Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1896.

Price: US$87.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Dark green cloth, gilt initials and flowery design at center front bright, gilt on spine a little rubbed, 488 pages, spine very slightly askew--will attempt to fix this. Frontispiece illustration of woman and child with caption: "I ought not to be born, ought I?" Serialized in Harper's Magazine in November, 1894. Neat ink name and date on first front end paper (1897). Light green stain small at center back. Near Good.

Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.

Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1896.

Price: US$149.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Dark green cloth, gilt monogram on cover, gilt spine titles. 1896 at bottom of title page. Previous owner's info to ffep. Dampstain to textblock top edge that seeps to page tops, but is fairly faint and doesn't extend to text. Spine ends/corners worn. Page 309 creased and miscut by printer. In acetate cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.

Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1896.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First US edition, hardcover, has a couple thin pulls and cracks to the binding, which remains solid overall, as well as bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, rubbing to the cloth with faint spots of soiling to the front, light foxing to the edges of the text block and some of the pages, and a previous owner's name and date (1896) penned to the first free end page. Overall, a solid, Good+ copy.

Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.

Hardy, Thomas. Jude The Obscure. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1896.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: Attractively bound in finely woven green cloth. A solid volume with the gilded floral circle on the front boards and bright gilt lettering on the spine. Very clean and tight throughout with some occasional foxing to the last pages of the book. Overall, a handsome collectible copy of this first illustrated edition. Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth.[1] He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, he gained fame as the author of novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin.[2]Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances, and they are often set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex; initially based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Hardy's Wessex eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in south-west and south central England. Two of his novels, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, were listed in the top 50 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. (Wikipedia) Correct First Ilustrated Edition with 1896 title page date and 1895 copyright date and no subsequent printings listed.

Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.

Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure (Wessex Novels Volume VIII [8]). Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896.

Price: US$181.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First book edition, following Harper's New Monthly Magazine serialization 1894-5 (Purdy 86-87), first of two states, with pagination on partially blank pages in signatures A-H. Lacks Wessex Map. Hinges just beginning to weaken, spine leans forward, newspaper clipping laid in with associated toning to adjacent pages. 1896 Hard Cover. vii, [1], 515, [1] pp. 8vo. Frontispiece etching by H. MacBeth-Raeburn. Hardy's last completed novel. Its protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man, a stonemason, who dreams of becoming a scholar. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion, morality and marriage.

Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.

Hardy, Thomas. WESSEX TALES. , 1896.

Price: US$185.00 + shipping

Description: That is to say: An Imaginative Woman | The Three Strangers | The Withered Arm | Fellow-Townsmen | Interlopers at the Knap | and The Distracted Preacher. With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. "Wessex Novels" edition -- containing the first American appearance of Hardy's short story "An Imaginative Woman," which he had recently written in 1893 (after TESS and before JUDE). WESSEX TALES was Hardy's first collection of short stories, originally published in two volumes in 1888; however it consisted of only the five other tales, which he had written by then. Osgood McIlvaine in the UK, and Harper in the US (as here), published this first uniform edition of Hardy's works, volume-by-volume during the period 1895-96. It is an important edition, because the text of every title was thoroughly revised by Hardy -- and with this title, he actually added a new tale. Hardy also wrote a Preface for each 1895-1896 volume, and here he says "[An Imaginative Woman] turns upon a physical possibility that may attach to women of imaginative temperament, and that is well supported by the experiences of medical men and other observers of such manifestations" -- specifically, if a pregnant woman becomes emotionally attached to a man who is not the father of her child, the child may acquire the characteristics of that other man. This copy is close to fine, with just a hint of wear at some corners. See Purdy p. 60 and pp 279-282.

Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.

HARDY, THOMAS.. Jude The Obscure. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896, 1896.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: First American; first illustrated edition. Faint cloth spots; near fine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

HARDY, THOMAS.. Jude The Obscure. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896, 1896.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: First American; first illustrated edition. Corners slightly bumped; nearly fine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

HARDY, THOMAS. JUDE THE OBSCURE. NEW YORK NY HARPER & BROTHERS 1896., 1896.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Description: VG/NONE. GREEN COLORED CLOTH, GILT SPINE TITLES AND FRONT COVER DESIGN, FRONTIS, AND ELEVEN PLATES BOOK HAS LIGHTLY SCATTERED DISCOLORED SPOTS ON COVERS, CORNER OF FRONT PASTE-DOWN ENDPAPER HAS SLIGHT INSECT DAMAGE, AND A REPAIRED PUNCTURE/TEAR ON THE SPINE PANEL. A NICE COPY. Illustrated by ILLUSTRATED. FIRST EDITION.

Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.

Thomas Hardy. Wessex tales. Harper & Brothers, 1896.

Price: US$279.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1896, First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers. Original dark green cloth with monogram device in gilt. Front board has 4 small spots, otherwise very good condition. 291 unmarked pages in very good condition, albeit yellowed from age. With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex That is to say: An Imaginative Woman | The Three Strangers | The Withered Arm | Fellow-Townsmen | Interlopers at the Knap | and The Distracted Preacher. "Wessex Novels" edition -- containing the first American appearance of Hardy's short story "An Imaginative Woman," which he had recently written in 1893 (after TESS and before JUDE). WESSEX TALES was Hardy's first collection of short stories, originally published in two volumes in 1888; however it consisted of only the five other tales, which he had written by then. Osgood McIlvaine in the UK, and Harper in the US (as here), published this first uniform edition of Hardy's works, volume-by-volume during the period 1895-96. It is an important edition, because the text of every title was thoroughly revised by Hardy -- and with this title, he actually added a new tale. Hardy also wrote a Preface for each 1895-1896 volume, and here he says "[An Imaginative Woman] turns upon a physical possibility that may attach to women of imaginative temperament, and that is well supported by the experiences of medical men and other observers of such manifestations" -- specifically, if a pregnant woman becomes emotionally attached to a man who is not the father of her child, the child may acquire the characteristics of that other man. This copy is close to fine, with just a hint of wear at some corners.

Seller: Taylor & Baumann Books, LLC, Ridgefield, CT, U.S.A.