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HARDY, Thomas. The Woodlanders. Macmillan & Co, London, 1887.
Price: US$192.52 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Single volume edition, published in the same year as the three volume edition.Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Shelfwear to boards. Corners bumped and worn. Wear to board edges and especially along the spine edges where the cloth is splitting. Spine is rather tatty and coming loose. Spine is age darkened. Page edges are rather grubby. Somewhat cocked. Coloured endpages. Previous owner's mark. Front inner hinge is cracked but holding. Rear inner hinge is cracked but holding. Textblock is cracked but holding. Textblock has one or two grubby marks but is generally clean. 352 pp. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 625g. Postage within the UK remains at £3. For international orders ABE use an estimate based on a 1kg book. Where a book is lighter/heavier, we will reduce/request additional postage accordingly. We make no profit on postal charges. We expect a parcel of this weight to cost between £13.05 (Europe) and £22.45 (USA) to ship using Royal Mail's International Tracked Service. All our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 022949:15(2e)) Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall 625 G
Seller: YattonBookShop PBFA, Bristol, United Kingdom
Thomas Hardy. The Woodlanders. Macmillan and Co., London, 1887.
Price: US$288.78 + shipping
Description: A scarce first single volume edition of Thomas Hardy's novel 'The Woodlanders'. First single volume edition. Three volume edition published the same year. One of Hardy's series of Wessex novels, story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury. Declared by the Saturday Review in April 1887 to the "the best [novel] that Hardy has written." Written by Thomas Hardy, an English novelist and poet known as a Victorian realist influenced by Romanticism and the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing to the boards. Light shelf wear and bumping to the extremities. Some cloth loss to the rear board which has caused light fraying. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with only light scattered spotting. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Hardy, Thomas. The Woodlanders. Macmillan, London, 1887.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of this major Hardy novel in the scarce Colonial Library format. Publisher's pale blue cloth lettered in dark blue. Unlike the domestic issue, the Colonial edition was published in one volume, 352pp text + 2pp ads (noting the first 50 titles in the Colonial Library - this being numbered 49). Bookseller's stamp for Thacker of Bombay at top of front pastedown, no other inscriptions or marks. Very slight loss to head and tail of spine, which is a bit sunned, but a very good copy of a rare and fragile item.
Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom
Hardy, Thomas. THE WOODLANDERS. Three Volumes. Macmillan, London, 1887.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. THREE VOLUMES. Complete Set. First issue bindings, three half title and title pages, original green cloth, gilt lettering spines, black coated endpapers, 2pps of adds at rear on Volume I. 1000 printed with only 860 bound. Three very good- books with inner hinges intact. Ghost of traveling library labels on front covers of all three volumes. Mild cover edges wear.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
HARDY, Thomas. The Woodlanders. Macmillan and Co, London, 1887.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Sextodecimo, 3 volumes, Sextodecimo, _ leather over green, blue, gilt, and white marbled boards, gilt stamped lettering and design on spine, five raised bands on spine, gilt top edge. One of only 1000 copies, half-title present in each volume, no ads, part of English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy's Wessex novel series. Very good, leather at spine is very worn, previous owners bookplate on front pastedown of each edition, some shelf wear.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. THE WOODLANDERS. Macmillan, London, 1887.
Price: US$2000.97 + shipping
Description: In three volumes. Pp. [iv]+302+[2](advertisements)+[iv]+328+[iv]+316; dark green buckram-grain cloth, upper boards with black double rule border and inner frame, lower boards with the same design in blind, spines lettered in gilt, the cloth slightly soiled and rubbed (see footnote), edges lightly worn, corners bumped and a trifle frayed; uncut; dark brown endpapers; hinges starting at a few points, a few leaves carelessly opened, with several tiny edge splits or chips, occasional slight creasing, a little light foxing and soiling; Macmillan, London, 1887. First edition, primary binding (which was sold mainly to the circulating libraries). Purdy p. 54; Sadleir 1120. *Ex Circulating Library copies, with remains of the yellow Mudie's label on upper board of Volume 1, and signs of the same label removal from the other volumes.The Woodlanders, which was originally published in monthly instalments in Macmillan's Magazine from May 1886 to April 1887, was Hardy's own favourite of his novels.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
HARDY, Thomas. The Woodlanders. MacMillan and Co, London, 1887.
Price: US$2025.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of the novel the author would proclaim, near the end of his life, to be his favorite creation amongst his Wessex novels. Intended to follow Far From the Madding Crown, the woodland novel he began in 1874 did not see serial publication until 1884. The three-volume first edition followed in March published in a run of 1,000 copies. It's estimated that 860 were bound in dark green buckram followed by a later secondary binding in dark green pebble grained cloth. This is a very good+ copy in the later binding with black endpapers and without advertisements. Light shelf wear is visible to spine and board edges. Some foxing to the first and last few pages of each volume, not affecting text. The front end paper of volume three has split revealing the binding (as can be seen in the photograph); however, it does not affect the security of the board. Not ex libris and without internal markings. A very good+ copy of this great novel.
Seller: Memento Mori Fine and Rare Books, Stafford, VA, U.S.A.
Hardy Thomas. THE WOODLANDERS.In Three Volumes. London Macmillan 1887, 1887.
Price: US$3575.00 + shipping
Description: 3 volumes. First edition. First issue in first binding state with the called for advertisement leaf at the end of Vol. I. 8vo, original dark green very-fine bead-grain cloth, blocked in black and lettered in gold; with dark chocolate end papers. In green slipcase. [iv], 302, ads; [iv], 328; [iv], 316. Half-titles in each. A nice copy with less than the usual normal wear or rubbing to the cloth and end papers. FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. First published in MACMILLANS MAGAZINE, this is a novel of unrequited love set in the country near the Blackmoor Vale of Dorset. It is a tragic tale of the consequences resulting from the quest for status among the country people. In THE WOODLANDERS, as in all his work, Thomas Hardy is concerned with one thing, seen under two aspects; not civilization, nor manners, but the principle of life itself, invisibly realized in humanity as sex, seen visibly in the world as what we call nature. He is.a determinist, and he studies the workings of fate or law (ruling through inexorable moods or humours), in the chief vivifying and disturbing influence in life, women. His view of women is more french than English; it is subtle, a little cruel,.thoroughly a man's point of view, and not, man's and woman's at once.No one has created more attractive women of a certain class, women whom a man would have been more likely to love or to regret loving. In [The Woodlanders], women are allowed more liberty, with a franker treatment of instinct and its consequences.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
HARDY, Thomas.. The Woodlanders.. , 1887.
Price: US$3850.47 + shipping
Description: London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. 8vo.; 3 vols; original forest-green buckram-grain publisher's cloth with rounded corner frame in black to upper cover, and in blind to lower; lettering gilt to spine; brown coated endpapers; pp. [v], 2-302, [ii, ads.]; [v], 2-328; [v], 2-316; untrimmed, some corner creases and the odd corner roughly opened (not affecting text); internally for the most part clean, a few small stains to page extremities, small tears and creases to lower margin of M4 in vol.1 and Q1 in vol. 2; W. H. Smith subscription stickers to front paste-downs of all three volumes (partially removed in Vol. I), all three volumes with slight shelf lean, the hinges a little weak; bumping to corners exposing a little of the boards; and with pushing to head and foot of spine, where the cloth is a little worn and nicked; Vol I missing a little part of the head-cap; very good copies nonetheless, and unusual in the original cloth. First edition in book form, One of 1000 copies. The first issue in the primary binding, with the advertisement leaf to the rear of Vol I, as called for. The author's favourite of his novels, first published in monthly instalments in Macmillan's Magazine between May 1886 and April 1887. Only 860 copies of the edition were bound up and despite being well-received 170 copies were remaindered. The Woodlanders is one of Hardy's 'Wessex Novels', the name given to the series of books he set in South and Southwest of England and named after the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom that existed in that part of the country prior to the unification of England. It reflects common Hardy themes; an evocative setting, poorly-chosen marriage partners, unrequited love, and social class mobility. Arthur Quiller-Couch declared it "his loveliest if not his finest book", and George Gissing, who read the novel in March 1888, writes that he did so "with much delight". We humbly agree. The tragedy evolves from the characters, rather than being imposed by impersonal fate as in some of Hardy's other works, and the woodland world he creates is a perfect microcosm of England.
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Hardy, Thomas. The Woodlanders. Macmillan and Co, London, 1887.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Thomas Hardy on a laid in signature in volume 1 of this 3 volume set. A wonderful complete 3 (vol) set as issued from the publisher. Each book is in excellent condition and is a First Edition. The bindings are tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely set SIGNED by the author. We buy Thomas Hardy First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.