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Hardy, Thomas. The Well-Beloved, a Sketch of a Temperament. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1897.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Description: 341p. Frontispiece & map at end. Very good condition! in dark green cloth
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. WELL-BELOVED, THE. New York, N.Y. Harper & Brothers 1897, 1897.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: 339pp. Illuminated cover is worn. (loc x153)
Seller: Austin Book Shop LLC, Richmond Hill, NY, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. The Well-Beloved. A Sketch of Temperament. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1897.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. Hardy's last published novel. rewritten from an earlier serialization. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First American Edition. Dark green cloth binding, with a gilt decoration on the front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. Clean text; frontis illustration, 339 pages, map of Wessex, and two pages of publisher's adverts in the rear. Endpapers foxed, some spotting to edges, mild bumps, wear to foot of the spine. Contemporary library label on the front paste-down. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by H. MacBeth-Raeburn.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Dark blue boards, gilt title on spine, gilt medallion and monogram on front, 338 numbered pages plus map of Wessex plus one page ad. Lightly rubbed on ends of spine and tips of corners, boards lightly smudged, light-coloured smudge (3/4 inch) on rear, pages darkened. One spot of foxing on tissue covering frontispiece, faint black line on page 98, cracked at pages 159 and 239, but binding tight. Two small (1/8 inch) marks on lower edge pages 238 and 239, dark smudging along top edge of rear free endpaper, sporadic tiny marks throughout. Overall, very good minus. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lindenlea Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1897. 1897. Very good. - Octavo, black cloth titled in gilt on the spine with a decorative device in gilt on the front cover. The binding is lightly rubbed. v, [i] 338 & [1] pages plus a map of Wessex and a 2-page publisher's catalog. Also illustrated with an etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn which serves as a frontispiece. The book is cocked. Very good. First American edition.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.94 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 338 pages. Subjects; Man-woman relationships Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Sculptors Fiction. Portland (England) Fiction. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$82.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 338 pages. Subjects; Man-woman relationships Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Sculptors Fiction. Portland (England) Fiction. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York:Harper and Brothers, Publishers. 1897, 1st American edition. vi+339pp. Illustrated with etching by H. MacBeth-Raeburn and a map of Essex. Hardcover. Green boards lightly soiled and shelfworn with gilt on front cover and spine still bright. Internally, a near fine copy, free of previous owners marks or signatures, and with pages clean and bright.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$168.28 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition. Tall 8vo., orig. dark green cloth with the "TH" monogram in gilt on the upper cover, (vi), (339), (2)pp.ads. A fine copy. Purdy p.97.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardy, Thomas. The Well-Beloved. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1897.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. Etched frontispiece with tissue guard by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and map of Wessex at end. 8vo. Hardy's last novel to be published in book form, it appeared serially in the Illustrated London News at the end of 1892. Purdy pp 92-96 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; lightly bumped lower corner but otherwise a near fine copy Etched frontispiece with tissue guard by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and map of Wessex at end. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.