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Hardy, Thomas. Life's Little Ironies. Osgood McIlvaine & Co, London, 1894.
Price: US$11.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Very Good copy in the original cloth, neat name to end paper.
Seller: Fountain Books (Steve Moody), Eastleigh, United Kingdom
Thomas Hardy. Life's Little Ironies. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1894.
Price: US$13.53 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1894. No Edition Remarks. 301 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to hinges and gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and heavy crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Some additional marks and staining.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: (8) , 301, (3) pages. Green cloth covers with brown decorations and gilt lettering on spine and front board. Front hinge cracked internally. Some rubbing and minor staining to cloth covers. ; 12mo
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
HARDY, Thomas. Life's Little Ironies. Osgood, McIlvaine, London, 1894.
Price: US$18.03 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The second edition of this collection of short stories " a set of tales, some colloquial sketches and a few crusted characters" by Thomas Hardy. 301pp, hinges cracked but holding well, decorated green cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover, cover hinges rubbed, spine bumped at top and bottom, otherwise good.
Seller: John's Books, Guildford, United Kingdom
Hardy, Thomas. Life's little ironies. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co, 1894.
Price: US$20.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Discrete con difetti, segni d'uso Condizioni dell'interno: Discrete con Difetti, macchie bruniture
Seller: Miliardi di Parole, Pietra Marazzi, AL, Italy
Price: US$22.85 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1894-01-01. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co. Hardcover. GOOD Previous owners name.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Hardy, Thomas. Life's Little Ironies. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., London, 1894.
Price: US$25.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second edition from 1894, the same year as the first publication. The spine is faded, has a little fraying at the top and bottom, some edge rubbing and a crease down the centre. Rubbing to the corners but the front and rear panels are clean and unmarked. Browning to page edges. Previous owner's name and date to top corner of front free endpaper. The endpapers are a little browned with some spotting and the hinges are slightly exposed at the front and rear. There is also a significant gap showing between pages 128 and 129 - the binding is secure but a little slack. Pages browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. No jacket.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
HARDY, Thomas. Life's Little Ironies. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co,, London, 1894.
Price: US$32.19 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description:
Seller: Broadhursts of Southport Ltd ABA ILAB BA, Southport, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 301 pp. 8vo, publisher's decorated cloth. First edition. Hinges cracked but intact; slight recoloring of joints and extremities of spine; slightly cocked. A very good copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. Life's Little Ironies. Osgood, Mcilvaine, London, 1894.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second edition of this short story collection in original publisher's olive green cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in red. Light rubbing to extremities and signs of label removal on rear board but sound and quite clean internally.
Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Third edition. Hardback. 1894 3rd ed. Original green cloth with gilt titles and decorations in brown. Slight wear and rubbing to covers with slight bump to top corner, otherwise a near very good copy. Ink name to pastedown. No dust jacket.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$46.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Publisher's decorative green cloth, grid design and stylised red flowers, gilt lettered, quite rubbed to extremities, stain to rear panel and a couple of score marks to front, a couple of small tears to front endpapers, contents are generally clean save for some pages where they are stained or marked, pp.22-23 and pp.116-117 being notable examples, in all a good copy only of these short stories by Hardy.
Seller: B. B. Scott, Fine Books (PBFA), London, UK, United Kingdom
Price: US$51.51 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: original decorated cloth, spine bumped with small snag at base, one corner bumped, traces of removal of bookplate to advertisement leaf resulting in the loss of several letters, a nice copy. same year as the first edition; 301 pages
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$59.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A popular work of short stories by the world-renowned novelist, Thomas Hardy. In the publisher's original binding. The third edition, published in the same year as the first edition. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding with gilt lettering. A collection of short stories by Thomas Hardy, including popular titles such as, 'A Tragedy of Two Ambitions', 'The Fiddler of the Reels', and 'The Superstitious Man's Story'. Thomas Hardy is a classic English novelist, poet and Victorian realist, best known for his famous novel, 'Far from the Madding Crowd', which was dramatised into an Oscar-nominated film directed by John Schlesinger. Complete with the half title page. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart with shelf wear to the extremities. Bumping to the spine. A few light marks to the boards. Spine is slightly darkened. Hinges strained but still firm. Some age-toning and scattered spots to the paste-downs and free endpapers. Internally, binding strained but still firm. Pages age-toned. The odd handling mark throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Hardy, Thomas. Life's Little Ironies. Osgood, Mcilvaine, London, 1894.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition of this short story collection in original publisher's olive green cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in red. Light rubbing to extremities and slight soiling to cloth but sound and quite clean internally.
Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$128.76 + shipping
Description: Sadleir 1110; Hardback: green cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in brown - a Charles Ricketts design?; Some light cover wear, vg.
Seller: Bookfare, Ambleside, United Kingdom
Hardy, Thomas. Life's Little Ironies. Osgood McIlvaine, 1894.
Price: US$141.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth. Small blind stamp. Nice copy. One of 2000 copies.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Hardy, Thomas. Life's Little Ironies. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., London, 1894.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Tight binding, solid green boards with gilt lettering, gently rubbed corners and edges, gilt lettering to lightly tanned spine strip, lightly soiled upper text block and fore edge, otherwise, clean, unmarked pages throughout. 1st edition
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$167.39 + shipping
Description: 8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper; decorative green cloth gilt, covers tooled in gilt and red to an art-nouveau floral design by Charles Ricketts, gilt back, back very lightly faded else a remarkably bright, clean copy. The binding is identical to that of the first edition published earlier in the same year. Purdy, p.85.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Green cloth cover with gold lettering and floral pattern consisting of 3 flowers in one of six panels created by bars on front cover; 301 pages, 1894 copyright, no additional printings indicated. Lettering on cover slightly faded. Slight loss of color at top and bottom of spine and tips of corners, no fraying. First signature is loose but not quite separated from textblock, a few others just starting. No writing. A few age spots on pages. Pages are a little brittle and a couple of page corners that were once creased are now missing. A satisfactory copy. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.
Seller: Brentwood Books, Kinnelon, NJ, U.S.A.
HARDY, Thomas.. Life's Little Ironies.. James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Company, [London], 1894.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 301 pp. 8vo, publisher's decorated green cloth. First edition. Bookplate to pastedown; a little discoloration from publisher's glue at hinges, as usual; otherwise a bright, fresh copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.