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Hardy, Thomas. Return of the Native. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1929.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 484 pages. Signed by the illustrator on page indicating this edition is limited to 1500 copies, but there is no copy number listed. Backstrip quite discolored. Edges of covers scuffed and chipped. The text and illustrations crisp and free of marks. All 12 tipped-in plates are present. The binding is tight, but slightly bowed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall First Edition with Woodcuts By Clare Lei.
Seller: Village Booksmith, Hudson Falls, NY, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. The Return of the Native. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Copy #609 of 1500 numbered copies signed by illustrator Clare Leighton. Original half tan cloth over blue boards, paper spine label (cloth rubbed and browned, boards rubbed, label nicked with tape repair; inner hinges splitting and starting). Wood-engravings By Clare Leighton, including 12 tipped-in plates.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. The Return of the Native. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1929.
Price: US$131.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition, #1283 of 1500 copies, signed by illustrator Clara Leighton on limitation page. Lacks jacket. Corners a bit rubbed, otherwise an excellent copy. 1929 Hard Cover. x, [4], 484, [2] pp. Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright is to return from Paris, she sets her heart on marrying him, believing that through him she can leave rural life and find fulfilment elsewhere. But she is to be disappointed, for Clym has dreams of his own, and they have little in common with Eustacia's. Their unhappy marriage causes havoc in the lives of those close to them, in particular Damon Wildeve, Eustacia's former lover, Clym's mother and his cousin Thomasin. The Return of the Native illustrates the tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to recognize their opportunities to control their own destinies.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. The Return Of The Native. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1929.
Price: US$222.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is number 1114 of an edition autographed by the illustrator, limited to 1500 copies, of which 500 copies were reserved for England, and 1000 for the United States. Paste-down label on spine. Illustrated with beautiful woodcuts including 12 tipped in mounted plates, including frontispiece, and numerous little black & white illustrations. 485 pages. Book is signed in pencil on the front free-end-paper by William Lyon Phelps, renowned professor of English Literature at Yale from 1892 into the 1940's. Inserted is a copy of a listing of books from the library of Phelps which includes this book. This book is immaculate being clean, complete, and tight.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Signed. 8vo; in the publisher's blue paper-covered boards, backed in linen; with paper spine lable, with dustjacket, and with the original glassine wrapper; x, xi-xiii; [2], 3-484, [485]; with 12 tipped in woodcuts and with numerous textual illustrations; the edition is limited to 1500 copies, of which this is #920, signed by the illustrator, Clare Leighton.~~This copy also inscribed by illustrator Clare Leighton to her then lover, Henry Noel Brailsford. Ms. Leighton provided the woodcut frontispiece and decorations for this book. Noel Brailsford is considered to be the most prolific British left-wing journalist of the first half of the 20th century, and was one of the founders of the Men's League for Women's Suffage [see wiki]. Mr. Brailslford and Clare Leighton lived together for nearly a decade starting in 1928; he was still married to his first wife, and she denied him a divorce. In 1939 Ms. Leighton left England to reside permanently in the United State; she never married.~~The presentation from Clare Leighton: "To Noel who with the third Rasoumowsky and Tadnol [sic] helped be to do this. C. L. New York February 1929". Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.